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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303212265
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6303212263
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 31, 1994
Running Time: 143 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1978
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Richard Donner's 1978 epic about the Man of Steel showed how a film about a superhero could be a moving and romantic experience even for people who long ago gave up comic books. Beginning on the icy planet Krypton, the story follows the baby Kal-El, whose rocket ship lands in Smallville, Kansas. He is found there by a childless couple and raised as the shy Clark Kent (the young Kent is played by Jeff East). The film is perhaps most touching in these sequences, with expanses of wheat fields blowing in the wind and with a young man who can't figure out what part in destiny his great powers are meant to play. The second half, with Reeve taking over as Clark/Superman, is bustling, enchanting (the scene in which Superman flies girlfriend Lois Lane--played by Margot Kidder--through the night sky is great date material), and funny, thanks largely to Gene Hackman's sardonic portrayal of nemesis Lex Luthor. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Watched this a long time ago when I was a kid and thought it was great. It wasn't as good as I remember it from way back then but it's still fun to watch and I enjoyed seeing it again.
On a separate note, I purchased this directly from Amazon and the DVD case was broken on the inside when I got it so the DVD was loose and had a bunch of scratches on it :( Could have been poor handling by the mail service though, I don't know. DVD played okay still but I'm mad about the scratches on ... Read More
Rating:  -
I know Superman geeks hold Richard Donner in esteem over this tepid "adaptation". Too bad Sam Peckinpah turned this sucker down. I know many people have found it hard to imagine what Sam would have done with this. Let me try: It would take place in El Paso with Clark Kent being some guy on the lam for years. In Peckinpah's "Superman", Kent would not have supernatural powers, only a lot of guns and would be drunk a lot. In flashbacks we learn that in high school he was some put-upon Dustin Hoffman ... Read More
Rating:  -
5 of 5 stars for the comic book based movie Superman The Movie. This movie starts the franchise with the destruction of Krypton following sending of its last survivor to Earth. From the landing of his ice craft in the fields to his experiences in high school to his moving to Metropolis and working at the Daily Planet, this movies sets the basic history and story of Superman. An all star cast includes: Reeve, Hackman, Brando, Ford, Perine and Margot Kidder as Lois Lane. This movie has the sequence with ... Read More
Rating: -
I am simply astounded by the popularity of this terrible film. One would imagine that one of the most popular superhero films ever made would at least be entertaining in a base kind of way, but this film fails in nearly every way. The script is the worst I have ever seen. The Superman universe's fictional laws are constantly contradicted and broken when it fits the director's whim.
The dialogue and acting are atrocious. All of the actors (and it stars people like Reeves and Hackman, who ... Read More
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The movie:
"You'll believe a man can fly." That was the advertising tagline. Well, I can't think of many instances of it, but this was one time when a movie delivered on its hype. "Superman" fires on many cylinders, but the main one, the integral one, was believability. This film is an absolute achievement in terms of tone, style, and effects. For 1978, the effects are terrific, but also the performances and the writing really gel and sell the concept to the audience.
We haven't ... Read More
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