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Before battling the forces of evil, Clark Kent faced his greatest challenge: high school. The WB's engaging hit drama has finally arrived on DVD. A devastating meteor shower strikes the peaceful town of Smallville. For most of the townsfolk, the event brought great losses and unexplainable results, but for the caring Kent Family (John Schneider & Annette O'Toole), it blessed them with an amazing gift: a son who will become Earth's greatest champion. Producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have developed an original and appealing twist to the Superman myth. "Smallville" is the popular live-action comic book series that follows the young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) adapting to his superhuman powers, his friendship with future arch nemesis Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) and the developing relationship with sweetheart Lana Lang (Kristen Kreuk). The series is a surprising mix of coming-of-age drama and comic-book fantasy. "Smallville" also features a top-notch cast and stunning visual effects. The first season of "Smallville" definitely keeps viewers entertained but too many "Villain of the Week" episodes give the show a repetitive nature. Fans of the WB drama will be satisfied with "Smallville: The Complete First Season". All 21 episodes of the first season are presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen format. Its picture quality is quite bright and reasonably sharp. The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is satisfactory with decent surround effects. The box set includes two commentary tracks by series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, several deleted scenes from the pilot and second episode, "Storyboard to Screen" featurette, an interactive tour of Smallville, some promotional material and DVD-ROM extras. Overall, "Smallville: The Complte First Season" scores a "B".Read full review
If you love comics and super heroes, like I do, then you will love Smallville: Season One. It literally starts the SUPERMAN franchise from the beginning and takes you through his freshman year in high school in Smallville, Kansas. I think Tom Welling (Clark Kent) plays an excellent character of young Superman (whom most of us have come to cherish from when Christopher Reeves played him). They do a superb job of introducing and creating the tension between over-curious Lex Luthor (who is saved by Clark in one of the very beginning episodes) as well as the others (ie Lana Lang, Chloe, his parents, and Lionel Luthor (Lois Lane doesn't appear yet). They also do a little set up for furthre villians, which I was not familiar with (nor can i remember what their names should be as they did not have their name from the comics yet). I did not start watching Smallville until season five, which I found as one of the best shows on TV. I instantly added Season One to my Netflix queue. It was fun to see Clark develop his powers, such as jumping through fields of corn; looking thru the wall into the girl's locker room to throwing the truck of the Lana Lang's boyfriend (his love) on top of three other cars like it was a piece of cake; burning a hole thru a projection screen at school when he gets a little horny over his new very hot teacher; and (my fav) running super speed when he needs to be somewhere else immediately. I will say that the first few episodes I was not overly impressed with as they were a little cheesy and a little too slow for me. However, by about episode 5 it was full blast story and action that hasn't slowed down yet. The overall plot build of his young superman is a perfect gradual crescendo that will suck you in for more and more. So if you liked Batman Begins or Xmen, you'll sure to like Smallville. I can't wait to start Season Two!Read full review
This is Lois and Clark only when Superman was younger and the love of his life was Lana Lang. Ma and Pa Kent are great grounding influences on Clark, and he is a total nice guy in addition to being a hero. Lex Luthor is fascinatingly complex character. Clark's arrival as a baby on earth coincided with a meteor shower of kryptonite. Lex was about 5 but his father was a nasty, demanding, "be-a-man" type, cold and arrogant. Lex's hair fell out as a result of the meteor shower. As a teenager, Clark saves Lex's live and Lex befriends Clark, even trying to advance his romantic inclination toward Lana Lang, but Lex also subjects the car he was driving when Clark saved him (it went through the rails of a bridge into thw water) to a thorough analysis because he wants to know by what miracle he survived. You get the feeling Lex would never have become a criminal if his father weren't such a cruel, arrogant sociopath, but Lex carries with him an undercurrent of his father's ruthlessness. Most if not all of the episodes are based on the effects of kryptonite on the townspeople. While it weakens unsuspecting Clark, it grants amazing and sometimes deadly or fatal powers to earthlings. Great fun!Read full review
Smallville is a great show, and the beginnings were a lot of fun. If you are just getting started with the show and like the later seasons it would be good to see how it all started. Watch Clark deal with growing in to his powers, for instance in one episode, Clark finds that he has X-RAY vision, and like any highschool boy would, he finds him self in huge bunch of emotions. The only waring that I have for you is, the first season feels a little bit like SUPER Dawson's Creek. There is a lot drama but not as much action as there is in later seasons. Be prepared for "super" temper tantrums and lots of teenage agist... but giving these super teenagers some normal problems helps to really get one into Smallville's amazing town's people. I would check out a later season first and if you like it go back and start from the begining.Read full review
I will be honest with you, the first time I had seen this show I was appalled at a teen supermodel being superman in a smalltown setting. But once I found myself watching in with my girlfriend, I heard something that was all too familiar. The piano....its mysterious,...and all too familar! Wouldnt you know it was the same person that played tracks on the X-files! I always loved the X-files growing up, so of course subconsciously the music had a hold on me. But it wasn't just the Backing tracks, The Krytonite (meteor rocks) affecting teens all over smallville had an X-file essence also. I couldnt help but find the X-files continuing where it had left off, oh, around the 3rd season or so? Anyway it was much too like the show I'd always loved, and with that, I got addicted once again. Maybe you didnt see it, but to me it was a mulder and scully in highschool again as clark and chloey. Though it wasnt until the Philosphy of the milllionaire LEX LUTHER, that I truly knew I liked the show and would continue to watch. He always had a quote from someone important in history, and no matter what evil seemed to be lurking inside him, there was always a time to trust and forgive him the way Clark did. Lex Luther's Actor was the best of the cast, with a real sense of what the hunger for POWER really is. Its 6 seasons later and I still don't miss an episode.Read full review
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