Actors & Directors
- Bruce W. Timm
- Michael Dorn
Review Superman:
Actors & Directors
- Kevin Conroy
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- Loren Lester
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Robert Kanigher
List Price: $9.98
Price: $59.77
Review Adv of Batman & Robin: Joker (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:
Review Superman Volume 1/ Chapters 1-7 [Serial] (1948) / Warner Studios:The best parts of SUPERMAN (1948), a 15-chapter serial produced by Columbia Pictures, are found in the first three or so chapters when we see a lot of Superman lore adapted to film, including the destruction of Krypton, young Clark growing up on a farm with the Kents, and Clark coming to Metropolis and joining the staff of the Daily Planet. We also get to see Superman do lots of superheroic deeds such as rescuing people from disasters. Afterwards, however, it settles into a standard cliffhanger formula with Superman battling the Spider Lady (Carol Forman), a conventional serial villainess and criminal gang leader who sends her standard-issue thugs and henchmen (middle-aged guys in suits, ties and fedoras) out to kidnap Lois and knock out Jimmy Olsen with growing monotony in every episode. On the plus side, the Superman flying effects are carried out through cartoon animation. This enables Superman to be seen flying through a variety of locales. (If Republic Pictures had shot this, they would have repeated the same shot over and over of a stuntman in costume flying on a wire strung from one rock in the San Fernando Valley to another. ) Also, Noel Neill's Lois is as spunky here as the character ever got. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the ever-smiling Lois plunges into the action wholeheartedly time and time again, frequently making Superman look weak and overly cautious in comparison. Neill played the part again in the sequel, ATOM MAN VS. SUPERMAN, and later in all but the first season of the TV series.
Release date: 1997-06-17
Run time: 92 min.
List Price: $9.98
Price: $99.90
Review Spider-Man: Amazing Spider-Man / Rhino / Wea:
Actors & Directors
- Guest stars: Matt Roe, Jim Beaver
Review Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman: I'm Looking Through You & Requiem For a Superhero / Columbia House:Airdates October 10, 1993 and October 17, 1993.
Release date: 1998-06-30
Run time: 45 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Zorro: 1st Encounter (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Noa
- Jackson Beck
- Jack Mercer
- Joan Alexander
- Bud Collyer
Review Superman:This collection of fully restored, 1930s animated shorts from the legendary Max Fleischer are a real treat. For anyone who has grown up associating the Superman character with different phases of art direction in Superman comic books over the last 50 years, or best remembers the look of the Christopher Reeve films or the old television show, these 'toons will be a mini-revelation. Expanding on cues from the first generation of Superman comics, Fleischer immerses the man from Krypton in a marvelous blend of art deco, William Cameron Menzies-inspired sets, and edgy compositions that can't help but remind one of Fritz Lang-ian paranoia. Everything is oversized, blocky but rounded, ferociously modernist, and all too vulnerable. Superman's very function as a character in these highly dramatic and richly colored fables is both defending the overbearing, urban progressiveness and capital excesses of a young 20th century while also reassuring us that progress is not as indomitable as a man-at least a Superman. The DVD includes a bonus Fleischer short, "Play Safe," plus information about the restoration process, three choices of sound, complete history, synopsis, and credits. -Tom Keogh.
Review Adventures of Superman - The Collector's Edition (Jimmy in Jeopardy):
Actors & Directors
- 3 CARTOONS: EL MUNDO SUBTERRANEO, JAPOTEURS, EL COCHE DE BIMBO
- 30 MINUTOS
Review SUPERMAN, EN ESPANOL, SPANISH / TRANS ATLANTIC VIDEO:NTSC VIDEOTAPE
Actors & Directors
- Dana Delany
- Tim Daly
- Malcolm McDowell
- Christopher McDonald
- Dan Riba
- Bruce W. Timm
- Scott Jeralds
- Curt Geda
- Clancy Brown
Creator: Paul Dini
Review Superman: The Last Son of Krypton:
Price: $55.00
Review Superman Complete 4 Pack:
Review Superman: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.
Review life is worth living fulton j sheen superman and christmas:
Actors & Directors
- Chuck Harriton
- Ralph Bakshi
- Grant Simmons
- Bernard Cowan
- Doug Wildey
- Peg Dixon
- Gillie Fenwick
- Paul Soles
- John Vernon
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Stan Lee
List Price: $24.98
Price: $31.98
Review Marvel's Greatest Avengers Gift Set / Saban Entertainment:The Invincible Iron Man This installment of Marvel Comics cartoons features the invincible Iron Man. In "The Death of Tony Stark," a laser beam emitted from a mysterious satellite orbiting the Earth destroys the home of wealthy industrialist Tony Stark. Iron Man's alter ego has obviously dodged the strike, but cannot disprove the rumor that Stark is dead until he confronts the culprit, the Mandarin. In "The Crimson Dynamo," Iron Man faces Soviet electrical genius Professor Vanko, who has designed his own suit of crimson armor in order to defeat Iron Man as the first step to destroying the ultimate capitalist, Stark Enterprises. These stories, rather dated in their cold-war depiction of the Chinese and the Soviets, are each divided into three six-minute serial-type segments. The animation is minimal, restricted mostly to camera zooms and moving limbs and mouths, punctuated by Batman-style sound effects ("Wham!"). -David Horiuchi The Incredible Hulk There was some amazing, classic animation done for superhero cartoons as far back as Max & Dave Fleisher's Superman series of the early 1940s (echoes of which can be found in Batman: The Animated Series). Those were done for the big screen; by the mid-1960s, superhero cartoons were being brought to television, and some of Marvel Comics' biggest heroes-Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, and the Incredible Hulk-were the stars. Unfortunately, television didn't have much in terms of cachet-or production values-at the time, and all four heroes suffer for it. The Hulk gets short shrift here; the interesting thing about the character has always been twofold: the misunderstood misfit trying to make a quiet life for himself, and the Dr. [+]Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality of the Hulk and his alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner. On the two episodes here-"The Power of Dr. Banner" and "The Origin of the Hulk"-the animation is minimal and barely serves to capture a single facet of either character's personality. It looks as if only a couple dozen pictures of the main characters were drawn; for the most part, this is a series of stationary illustrations with voice-overs and plenty of narration. -Randy Silver Captain America Captain America comes across fine, if only because he's long suffered from the same wooden boy-scout image that Superman is often given-if nothing else, these cartoons excel at capturing a one-dimensional personality. On the two episodes here-the self-explanatory "Origin of Captain America" and "Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull" (why does the Skull's origin rate higher than Cap's?)-the animation is minimal. It looks as if only a couple dozen pictures of the main characters were drawn; for the most part, this is a series of stationary illustrations with voice-overs and plenty of narration. -Randy Silver.
Actors & Directors
- Ned Beatty
- Harry Andrews
- Vass Anderson
- Jackie Cooper
- Marlon Brando
Run time: 271 min.
Creator: Christopher Reeve
Price: $39.98
Review Superman 1 & 2 (2pc) / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Kevin Conroy
- Loren Lester
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Run time: 46 min.
Creator: Robert Kanigher
List Price: $9.98
Price: $24.50
Review Adv of Batman & Robin: Fire & Ice (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 1998-06-30
Run time: 45 min.
Price: $9.98
Review Zorro: Night of Terror (Spanish) / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Christopher Reeve
- Richard Donner
- Gene Hackman
- Margot Kidder
- Marlon Brando
- Ned Beatty
Creator: Tom Mankiewicz
Review Superman: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.
Review Popeye Superman:
Actors & Directors
- Michael Vejar
- Neal Ahern Jr.
Review Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman:
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