Tom Welling Movie:

		List Price: $59.98		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 2230 Released: September 23, 2003
		Our Price: $19.97
		Used Price: $3.99
		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:
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.

:)
2009-09-28 - Great show really only one i buy the dvd's for but come on what is it with the changing prices 20 dollers one day 50 the next. LOL haven't been able to buy this one because every time i have money for it the price goes up. When i dont have money then it is cheap.

Smallville- season 1
2009-09-03 - This was the first time that I was not 100% satisfied with a product from Amazon. It came brand-new, and two of the discs were loose in the package. One of them was already scratched. The actual caseing had nicks in it. It was not that expensive, but it was still very upsetting.