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Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman - The Complete First Season |  | Directors: Alan J. Levi, Bill D'Elia, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Gene Reynolds, James A. Contner
Actors: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Michael Landes, Tracy Scoggins
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  274 reviews
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 1074 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
MPN: 68144
ISBN: 1419804235
UPC: 012569681446
EAN: 9781419804236
Theatrical Release Date: September 12, 1993
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Casting a fresh look on a timeless legend, this exciting, action-packed update of Superman captures the daring exploits of the mysterious visitor from another planet and brings the city of Metropolis to life.Running Time: 1074 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 012569681446 UPC: 012569681446 Manufacturer No: 68144 |
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Casting a fresh look on a timeless legend this exciting action-packed update of Superman captures the daring exploits of the mysterious visitor from another planet and brings the city of Metropolis to life.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569681446
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Lois & Clark was one of the sweetest surprises of the 1993 television season, and while it certainly enjoyed a devoted following until the series jumped the tall building in its later years, we can probably thank the Phoenix-like rise of Desperate Housewives' Teri Hatcher's career to thank for its arrival on DVD. The premise of Lois & Clark is one fraught with peril, particularly for core fans. This incarnation of the Man of Steel saga recasts Superman as romantic comedy. One of the series creators once described this series as "basically, Moonlighting, only Bruce Willis can fly." This is overstating the case by leaps and bounds. Clark Kent (Dean Cain) has not been reinvented as a wisecracking street-wise hipster. The chemistry between the new Metropolis arrival and rookie Daily Planet scribe and ace investigative reporter Lois Lane (Hatcher) is not as sexually charged as David and Maddie, and their banter is not as sharp. But as with Moonlighting it would be a few seasons before the two lovelorn characters consummated their attraction. The dramatic arc of this inaugural season is "the fall of the house of Luthor," but at its heart is the triangle between Clark, Lois, and the charming snake Lex Luthor (John Shea), who, in the pilot episode, Superman vows to bring to justice ("Let the games begin," Luthor responds). Further complicating matters is that Superman has literally swept Lois off her feet. But until the episode "Barbarians at the Planet," in which Lex proposes to Lois, Lois professes her love to Superman, and Clark confesses his love to Lois, Lois & Clark breezily tweaks the touchstones of Superman iconography. "I've never noticed it before," a "drunk with love" Lois observes to a bespectacled Clark in "Pheremone, My Lovely," "You look a lot like Superman." Though special effects have progressed since the 1990s, Lois & Clark has lost little of its sparkle and panache, thanks to its super leads, whose fledgling careers soared to dizzying new heights. --Donald Liebenson
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My favorite Superman on film. November 10, 2009
Darren B. O'Connor (Norfolk, Virginia United States)
It's hard for me to admit that I actually prefer this adaptation to the first two Christopher Reeve movies, since I think those two are still among the best superhero movies ever to hit the screen. But the truth is, on the balance, I do like this series just a little bit better, despite the silliness and the camp that it often displayed. It was an interesting new take on the Superman story. It's very different in focus from the movies. In them, Superman was the main character. The first movie shows his arrival on earth, and some of his upbringing with Jonathan and Martha Kent, and it's made abundantly clear, from the beginning, that he has a great destiny ahead of him. His early life is just shown as preparing him for it. Then, in his late teens, he finds a green crystal which leads him to someplace in the arctic, where he raises the Fortress of Solitude, and finds recorded images of his father, prepared for this day, and he spends years "training up" to fulfill his destiny. He even reappears dramatically, in costume as Superman for the first time to make this clear. He's not really Clark anymore; he's Superman. Clark is now just a disguise he wears to fit into human society, and allow him not to lose touch with his humanity. Superman is the real person, and Clark is the disguise (which is why he doesn't mind frequently looking like a fool in his guise as Clark). The upside of this is that it does make it at least SLIGHTLY more plausible that a pair of glasses would be enough of a disguise, given that A) most people probably don't think Superman even has an alter ego, and B) that he acts so differently, slouches, and alters his voice as well. Superman and Clark act like two completely different characters. The downside of this is that it means Lois is never going to go for a dweeb like Clark. Her eye will remain fixed firmly on Superman.
Lois & Clark had a different take on things. Superman is not the main identity, Clark is. There is no Fortress of Solitude where he goes to be educated in his destiny by Jor-El's avatar. He simply goes to college and studies to become a journalist. Superman is not some role he was destined for; it's just a way he came up with on his own to try and use his great powers to help people, while still remaining able to lead a "normal" life and have normal relationships with his friends, family, coworkers, and the woman with whom he falls in love. The downside of this is, that since he doesn't act all that differently as Clark and Superman, it is rather incredible that nobody ever sees through his disguise -- a fact at which they frequently poke fun in the series, with tongue firmly in cheek. But the upside of this approach is that it does allow for Clark, as well as Superman, to be someone with whom Lois can believably fall in love.
And this is where the series excels. The Lois & Clark relationship has never been written better. It starts out with Lois being grudgingly saddled with a new partner whom she snidely dismisses as "a hack from Nowheresville," even as she is totally swept off her feet (literally in the final scene of the pilot) by the Man of Steel. She soon comes to value Clark as a friend and partner, however. She's actually attracted to him early on, but being a basically asocial, career-oriented, type A personality, with a history of bad relationships with both her family and her past boyfriends, this is something she would sooner die than admit. But then, gradually, she comes to face her true feelings for Clark, and even, in the end, realizes that she loves him more than Superman. This is something they handled really superbly on this show. It bears comparison with "Smallville." On that show, Clark and Lana are romantically attracted to each other, but in order to maintain romantic tension over several seasons, the writers were obliged to keep them from really getting together permanently. Unfortunately, this is hard to do believably over such a long time if the characters are supposed to be in love with each other, and they resorted to a bevy of plot devices that had the unfortunate side effect of taking a character who started out as a beautiful, sweet-natured, good-hearted, girl-next-door, whom it was easy to see why Clark fell in love with, and transforming her into a rather unsympathic character, who is by turns, whiny, unreasonable, passive-aggressive, manipulative, hypocritical, and other equally unattractive things, and it got to the point that you had to ask what Clark saw in her. The writers of Lois & Clark never did this to Lois, and yet still managed to stretch the pursuit and courtship out over three years. If anything, Lois got more likable and sympathetic over time, and it was easy to see why Clark was head over heels for her. Of course, it helped tremendously that Teri Hatcher was the actress playing Lois. She remains far and away the best actress in the role yet, and her Lois was gorgeous, sexy, vivacious, aggressive, feisty, and just plain adorable, especially when she's displaying the temper that caused Clark to refer to her (after they got engaged) as "my little tornado."
Dean Cain is good in the dual role of Clark and Superman. He's not nearly the actor Christopher Reeve was, and his Superman is not remotely as good, but his onscreen chemistry with Teri Hatcher was perfect, and he's great as Clark. Also superb was the entire supporting cast. Lane Smith was absolutely brilliant as Perry White. Michael Landes is also the best Jimmy Olsen ever, in my opinion, and the makers of this show made a huge mistake in replacing him (supposedly, they thought he looked too much like Dean Cain), though Justin Whalin did very well in the role from season two onward. Tracy Scoggins was good, and it's a shame she didn't return. And finally, Eddie Jones and K. Callan were perfect as Clark's parents. I also like it that in Lois & Clark, Jonathan and Martha don't just raise Superman, only to die and clear the way for him to fulfill his destiny. They remain an important part of his life, not only as the parents who gave him his values, but to whom he turns again and again whenever he faces difficult situations and difficult decisions. And moreover, I like it that they remain simple, unassuming, ordinary folks. It always kind of bothered me in "Smallville" how first Jonathan and then Martha got elected to the Kansas state senate, with Martha eventually becoming a U.S. senator and moving to Washington; it's always been a feature of the Superman story that his parents were just good, ordinary, salt-of-the-earth common folks (though perhaps ones with uncommon integrity and moral fiber), not influential politicians and power brokers, or great movers and shakers of society.
Some are inclined to dismiss this series because it's a Superman series rather light on Superman; the special effects are rather crude at times; and it can certainly get rather silly and campy. But look past the flaws, and enjoy it for what it is. It's meant to be basically a romantic comedy, and it's focus is squarely, as the title suggests, upon the relationship between Lois and Clark, and it's evolution from a friendly rivalry, and an ironic love triangle (with Clark as his own rival), into a romance. It's a great take on the classic American hero, and well worth watching.
"A Hack From NoWheresVille." "What A...Super Man." October 12, 2009
HAMLET
Another "Superman" series after the serials with George Reeves and the enormously successful (discounting the horrendous "Superman III" & "Superman IV"), did we REALLY NEED another "Superman" series? The answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES. Deborah Joy Levine has recreated Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's immortal comic book hero for a new generation. Gone is Lex Luthor, mad scientist with a bald head. Gone is Lois Lane, typical damsel-in-distress. Gone is Perry White, "Great Caesar's Gohst." But...never fear, die-hard "Superman" fans, all is not lost. Lex Luthor, Lois Lane and Perry White are only a few of the characters that have been updated in this family-friendly television series. As it was shot for ABC, the show was very family friendly, with only some suggestive dialogue, but that's as far is it got (at least for Season 1; I've yet to buy Seasons 2-4, as I wasn't allowed to see all the episodes of this wonderful series, but then again, I was only 7 years old). No graphic violence, no swearing and no sexual content. Today's shows, unfortunately, are very raunchy, and you can almost not find a wholesome family program (unless you have TVLand, where you'll constantly find reruns of "I Love Lucy," "Hogan's Heroes" and the classic favourite "The Andy Griffith Show.") Why is is that Disney's 1957-1959 television series "Zorro" isn't rerun anymore? Or The Three Stooges' shorts? Or "Touched By An Angel"? Or "New World Zorro"? Or this excellent show? All of these television shows were family-friendly. But I digress.
Thwe first season of this show is HIGH-FLYING FUN. I especially liked the banter between Lois, Clark and Cat. The bickering that went on was never risque. I also love "Foundling." Very well-written scene where Lois and Clark face off about his having lied to Lois. Every episode of the first season is excellent. I can't wait to get the rest of the seasons. The bonus features aren't as many as I thought, but everything is there: interviews with Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, John Shea, Tracy Scoggins, K Callan, Eddie Jones, Deborah Joy Levine, Robert Butler and a few of the behind-the scenes technicians. I also highly recommend the commentary on the pilot, as well as the series presentation andf introduction to the pilot by Ms. Levine. "It's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's...SUPERMAN." And The Man Of Steel IS BACK, AND FLYING HIGHER THAN EVER. (It would have been nice if Christopher Reeve, for me, the ideal and quintessential screen Superman, had made a guest appearance in the series. Not Rated.
The greatest Superman ever! May 31, 2009
Christian
This show is the best superman story of all time. The characters are great, there is so much tension between Lois and Clark. The episodes are very funny and charming. Lane Smith is a great actor and plays the role of Perry White absolutely fabulous.
My favorite seasons are 1 & 2. The set designs and costuming are fantastic. It fits all together to make this series perfect. "Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman" is still after 10 years a masterpiece. Buy this series because is freaking awsome for any superman fan and you'll be amazed at how great it is!
EXCELLENT!! May 28, 2009
Shanon Stanford
I love this series!! Especially the first three seasons!! Teri Hatcher is the best Lois Lane ever...the only one really. Also I love how this series makes Metropolis and the Daily Planet come alive and how Lois fell in love with Clark and not just Superman....its awesome!
pure class, great entertainment, superb DVD quality May 16, 2009
John Frame (Brisbane, Queensland Australia)
It's been a wonderful experience to enjoy the entire set of Lois & Clark on DVD. The quality of the screenwriting is refreshing, bold and mature, light-hearted, honest and romantic. From the start we know that this show has been made unashamedly and unapologetically to appeal to both women and men, whether straight or gay. First class adult-oriented, yet child-friendly entertainment.
The quality of the video is fantastic - with only a few scenes in the first two series showing the limitations of the editing equipment of the time. Just as you can see with each season how rapidly the Daily Planet's office computer systems have progressed, by season three the video quality is as good as anything we see today. Throughout the entire series the audio is, to my picky ears, impressively detailed and damned near flawless.
I love Dean Cain in this role - and also for his marvellous performance as the guilt-free gay bimbo Cole in "The Broken Hearts Club". Teri Hatcher also amazes me with the breadth of character that she brings to Lois - while creating a completely different style of person for her role in Desperate Housewives.
The extra features for each season are also a genuine treat and I greatly appreciate the work that's gone into them.
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