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 Movie A- |
Video B- | Audio A+
| Extras A | Recommended!
Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank
Langella, Eva Marie Saint, Parker Posey, Kal Penn, Sam Huntington and
Kevin Spacey
director Bryan Singer | Warner Bros.
2006 | Action/Adventure | PG-13 | minutes
Region 1 | DVD-9
anamorphic
widescreen 16:9
DTS-ES | Dolby Digital
5.1 EX
Summary: After five years away in hope of
finding his home planet, Superman returns to Earth and amazingly gets his
old job back at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. However, he was
distressed hearing that Lois Lane has won the Pulitzer Prize for the
article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman", has become
engaged, and has a five year old son. Life must go on and Superman
is busy saving lives while investigating the black out around the
world. Unbeknownst to the world, Superman is back just in time to
once again rescue us from Lex Luthor who wants to destroy billions of
lives.
It's a must-watch movie
with great action sequence, and the plot is intriguing. However, the
ending was predictable and not original. I can anticipate what the
plot is going to be for the sequel.
The video quality was
anything but super. In quite a few dark scenes, the close-up face
shots of Lois and Superman were plague with mosquito video compression
noise. I am shocked that DVDs mastered these days still suffer from
such video compression artifacts.
The As a DVD set, Warner
Bros. released a doozie: widescreen, full screen, a two-disc set Special
Edition with a dedicated second disc for bonus features, Blu-ray, and HD
Combo versions.
Special Features: There's plenty of bonus
features on this 2-disc special edition DVD to please Superman fans.
Disc 1: feature film
Disc 2: Special features disc with:
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Making Superman Returns: From Script to Screen
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Designing Superman: From Art and Costume Design
to Set Construction
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The Joy of Lex: Behind the Scenes with Kevin
Spacey
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Revealing additional scenes with characters and
plotlines never before seen
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"Resurrecting Jor-El" featurette
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"Requiem for Krypton: Making Superman
Returns" takes you an in-depth, behind the scenes journey of the
making of this momentous film
DVD released on 11/28/2006 | Reviewed 11/30/06
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Additional Notes: Unless we specify otherwise, the
video and audio quality are very good when their grades are "A-"
or better. Only the highest number of channels of surround sound
format is listed (e.g., Dolby Digital 5.1). If there are both Dolby
Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 soundtracks, then both are listed. All
DVD-Video discs are backwards compatible with stereo-only playback
systems.
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-NS725P progressive scan DVD player, Sony
KP-65WV600 65" rear projection HDTV-monitor (16:9 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable
ULT V1000 Ultra Series THX component video cable, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
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