Superman - The Movie
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Actor: Harry Andrews, Jackie Cooper, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Vass AndersonBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Gene Hackman
Primary Contributor: Margot Kidder
Primary Contributor: Christopher Reeve
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Superman - The Movie
Movie Review: In Its Own Right...
Summary: 3 Stars
To be as honest as possible, I really did not enjoy this 1st chapter as much as the later ones.
But that said, I will try to be as fair to this movie as possible, and review it in its own right. Part 1 starts off with Marlon Brando (the father of the infant Superman/Clark Kent) having trouble with his colleagues. (Marlon Brando knows Krypton will explode, but his peers are typical politicians and don't want to hear it.) Clark Kent/Superman is shipped to safety on earth, and is taken in by a kind married couple.
Clark Kent then goes to the north where there is a station where he can communicate with the spirit of his dead father. (Contrary to popular opinion, Marlon Brando does not disappear after the first 10 minutes. He has 2 additional scenes.)
Clark Kent/Superman then tries to make a life for himself as a reporter, where he of course meets Lois Lane. He loves her, but he can not reveal his true identity. (But if she is in danger, he can't let her get hurt either. Interesting puzzle.)
We then meet Lex Luthor who is planning to cause a disaster for the purpose of conducting some 'interesting real estate business.' As he says: "You have to buy for a little, and sell for a lot."
The scenes that steal this 1st movie are undoubtedly the romantic scenes where Lois Lane flies with Superman. If I say much more, I will probably ruin it for those of you who haven't seen it. But I will say there is one 'Superman cheat' to save an already dead person, that may make you say: "That's cheating even for a Superman movie."
All in all, it is a decent movie that ended up being just the start of a series.
Summary of Superman - The Movie
Newly enhanced adventure spanning the man of steels life from his krypton infancy and midwest boyhood to his career as daily planet report clark kent and through his titanic struggle with archnemisis lex luthor. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Christopher Reeve Gene Hackman Run time: 151 minutes Rating: PgRichard 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
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