Tom Welling Movie:

		List Price: $59.98		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 2088 Released: September 23, 2003
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		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series that chronicles the life of the boy who would be Superman is on DVD in a 6-disc collector's set with super bonus features.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes
Other
Storyboards
TV Spot

Description of Smallville - The Complete First Season:
The venerable Superman mythos gets a 21st-century updating in this imaginative and engaging television series from the WB Network, and series fans can celebrate the ratings success of Smallville with a six-disc set that compiles its entire first season. The deluxe package offers a chance to revisit the origins of the characters and their numerous plotlines, as well as view deleted scenes and other bonus features.

The premise of Smallville--Superman as a teenager--takes up just a few pages in Superman's very first comic book appearance (in Action Comics back in 1938), but series producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar flesh out that period by portraying young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) not as the noble Superman-in-waiting, but as an average teen with some not-so-ordinary supernatural powers, including incredible strength and heat vision (Clark hasn't lifted up, up, and away as of yet). Clark's desire to fit in with his peers and make sense of his extraordinary abilities ground him in very realistic and identifiable terms for the series' primarily under-25 audience, as does his appealing and tentative romance with Kristen Kreuk as Clark's dreamgirl Lana Lang. But Smallville also strikes gold when it takes a turn towards more comic book territory, as evidenced by the parade of shape-shifting killers and other outlandish antagonists (many generated, in one of the series' most ingenious notions, by the same devastating meteor shower that brought the infant Clark to Earth) that Clark must harness his powers to face and defeat. Gough and Millar, along with their capable cast (which includes Michael Rosenbaum as a young and already bald-pated Lex Luthor, and Annette O'Toole and John Schneider as the Kents) manage to pull off the precarious high-wire act of combining science fiction with coming-of-age drama to create this highly watchable program.

Smallville: The Complete First Season offers a very complete and attractive DVD package that is rounded out by some highly desirable extras for longtime series fans. The six-disc set offers all 21 episodes of the first season, including the pilot, in widescreen anamorphic format; Gough and Millar are featured on the set's sole commentary track, which appears on the pilot episode. Viewers can also access a number of deleted scenes from various episodes as well as view original pre-production storyboards and WB promotional spots. An interactive "tour" of Smallville rounds out the extras, but DVD-ROM owners can use the discs to access more features via the Smallville web site. --Paul Gaita

Smallville - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Started Off Awesome and, Nine Years Later, Still Rocks Hard!
2009-11-18 - When I heard they were coming out with a new Superman television show back in 2001, I was thrilled. I had watched Lois & Clark religiously, so to learn that Supes was back, but this time exploring his pre-Superman years as a mild-mannered teen in Smallville, well, needless to say I was pumped, and Season One of Smallville didn't disappoint.

We got our first glimpses of Clark's developing superpowers, how he and Lex met and the friendship that would later help forge the greatest archrivalry of all time, Clark's Kryptonian heritage and more. Likewise, to meet Lana Lang for the first time and not just as a mere movie character but someone who--if you know even a chunk of the Superman backstory--made a huge impact on Clark as he grew up was especially interesting.

I remember watching the season finale and flipping out over the cliffhanger ending.

I've been watching the series ever since, every week, barely missing an episode.

Check this series out if you haven't already. This stuff is good. Real good.

A.P. Fuchs

Addicting
2009-11-17 - Never thought they'd be able to create a tv show as addictive as reading comics when I was a kid.
Well they did and Smallville is the result. Once you start watching you'll be hooked like I was to comics as a kid LOL!
I guess being obsessed with Lana Lang don't help either LOL.
Anyways, even my older sister who hates anything to do with superhero's or comics,etc borrowed my dvd's and got hooked. My nephew watched like the whole season 1 straight through. Seems to be a trend with kids since my best friends's kid did the same so if you got kids keep them away from your collection or they won't go outside for days and will be stuck in front of the tv for hours straight!


good
2009-10-27 - good but needs to work on how to ship products better so cases are not cracked when a customer gets it.

Good And Bad, From Someone Who Reads The Comics
2009-10-25 - Good:
- Interesting villains (especially Lex)
- Interesting and well executed stories
- Great special effects
- Solid and believable profile of a young Superman

Bad:
- Kirstin Kreuk's (Lana Lang) horrendous acting. She does this weird breathy generic under acting thing that is just painful to watch
- Every bad ska and "alternative" rock song from the radio in 2000 is featured on this show
- Show can get a little too Dawson's Creek


Overall, this is a great show.


Glad I finally discovered this show!
2009-10-11 - I was originally drawn to Smallville only because I knew Jensen Ackles was in season 4, but this is a sweet show with truly likable characters and actors. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I do; I thought it would be geared far too much toward teenagers. I was wrong; anyone can enjoy Smallville. It's a show that embraces it's comic book roots and expects you to as well. There has to be a freak of the week, there has to be someone for Clark to fight, so expect a lot of weird happenings for small town Kansas! Suspend disbelief and enjoy the fun!

Tom Welling really grows as an actor throughout the first season, Michael Rosenbaum is fantastic, and the rest of the cast is great. Give Smallville a chance and I guarantee you'll care about the characters and love the story.