Product details: - Product group: Video
- Edition: VHS Tape
- Publisher: Warner Home Video
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition, NTSC
- Release Date: 2001-05-01
- Starring: Margot Kidder, Christopher Reeve
- Audience rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Run Time: 143 minutes
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
- Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 41 x 75 inches
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 KeoghCustomer reviews:  Superman The Movie, 2008-11-02
The product would read "no disc" in 2 different DVD players. I was sent a replacement DVD, it read "no disc" in 3 different DVD players. The product/s was defective.
 Original and Still the Best, 2008-09-29
Even if you compare this movie to today's superhero movies such as Iron Man or The Dark Knight, you would enjoy this movie more. There is a more human element to this and this is in part due to great writers and phenomenal actors. The problem with most superhero movies is they have a lead character that is quite muscle-bound and finding such an actor that can also act is not a common phenomenon. Enter Christopher Reeves, who had both the physique and talent and you have history in the making - the first comic book movie without the camp. Add in Margot Kidder, who I believe is the best Lois Lane, Gene Hackman, and Marlon Brando and writers from the Godfather and you have an epic, epic movie. The only thing negative that can possibly be said of this film is its special effects which is somewhat dated but still hold up quite nicely minus some Superman flying scenes that appear somewhat fake. But in terms of story, directing, acting, screenplay, Oscar-winning score, and cinematography - no other superhero adaptation can beat this movie.
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