The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection (Superman - The Movie / Superman II / Superman III / Superman IV - The Quest for Peace)

It took me years after Christopher Reeve's horrible accident to watch his Superman movies again. It was too hard to see the way he was, knowing how his life had been so tragically changed. I can finally watch these again, and I just love them. The first movie is so delightful, so much fun to experience that you KNOW he can fly. The rest of them are also superb, funny, heart warming and just plain entertaining. They aren't "old" movies, they are timeless. Christopher Reeve was an extremely talented actor, producer and director, as he proved in his subsequent work. The Superman movies, however, are my favorites because they make you believe that good will always win over evil, and that escaping for a while into a movie that makes you want to have a Superman around when you need him isn't silly after all. Christopher Reeve's life was one of hard work, love, talent, and strength. These movies help us all celebrate his life.

Who doesn't love Christopher Reeves as Superman? No one can out perform him in this Superman set and I'm sodisappointed with the remake. It is awful and the actor gets a great big zero from me.We lost a great actor and the best Superman on the planet. Really wish producers would leave the great old movies alone.Just because they have the new technology, doesn't mean they have created a better movie.One movie in particular--"You've Got Mail"-- would get five stars from me. The remake with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan isawesome. I have seen the first one on TCM and it's good with Jimmy Stewart, but doesn't come close to the greatacting of Hanks and Ryan. They changed the story line, but it is still a wonderful love story. So is this Superman!!

I grew up on George Reeves as Superman and he's still my favorite version of a live action Superman, but Christopher Reeve did a very good job in the theatrical movies of the 1970's and 1980's. SUPERMAN THE MOVIE is my favorite of Reeve's 4 movies and the quality of the films drops off with each sequel (SUPERMAN 2 the second best, SUPERMAN 3 comes next and SUPERMAN 4 the worst of the 4 films). Superman fans are familiar with the stories so I'll skip over them and say the DVD transfers are very good and I like the inclusion of SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN and the Fleischer cartoons. A great set for Superman fans and recommended.

UTTERLY F A B U L O U S !!!! After George REEVES, CHRISTOPHER REEVE IS UNDENIABLY S U P E R M A N!! This Collection is GREAT! Even including The ORIGINAL SUPERMAN Cartoons from the 40's ! I just had to buy this COMPLETE COLLECTION! Any ADULT would LOVE this for their CHILD or aging parents that grew up with the cartoons and George! BUY THIS SET!! It's GREAT! Even BOTH VERSIONS of Christopher's First movie! Did I mention the 2 episodes/ MINI-Movie from George REEVES? T O T A L SUPERMAN!!

Let me say that this edition has much going for it, and a few things that are fun - once. I will probably not watch all of the cartoons many times. They are late war years propaganda and terribly un PC today. But the point of the editions is not the cartoons or the single episode from the TV series. The point is the four movies. (See my review under Donner Cut for his edition of Superman II.)Superman, the Movie has been cleaned up and given two times, theatrical release and expanded version. I enjoyed both, though I can see why the scenes were cut for theatrical release. I like, in the expanded version, that Noelle Neal, playing "Lois Lane"s Aunt", had lines with young Lois. Noelle Neal was the TV Lois (She also appears in Superman Returns). Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve are at their youthful best in this flick. And they are surrounded by great actors who live up to every part of their end of the script (except maybe Brando, who walks through his part with a sense of the monumental, but without much real passion). The "Making of . . ." movies are interesting to watch, too. Hackman and Beatty are a great team.Supe II - Lester CUt - is a little too long. Some scenes of the three villains are simply there for laughs - except they aren't very funny. The sight gags during the fight between SM and the three are out of tone for the rest of the story. BUT, the kiss works at the end of the show - Donner's version does not. The making of carefully side-steps any reasons for Donner's dismissal.Supe III - This movie tries too hard to be funny. Richard Pryor's character is a funny character - strange, quirky and off-beat. That's fine. But when the others start trying to be funny, it's really deadly. The story kind of works, and the special effects are great. The fight between SM and Clark Kent is really well done. (And one senses that some of that story line has been nipped for Spiderman III.)Supe IV - is presented in the theatrical cut - roughly 90 minutes long. It is actually an entertaining movie, with good FX. The story line gets mildly preachy about disarmament, but at least they try to keep things moving with action and no long speeches. In the "deleted scenes" we finally get to see the 30 minutes or so of footage that was cut shortly before the movie hit theaters. Some of the scenes - the extended flying sequence for example - are really nice. Others are in character but not really needed. Others are longer versions of scenes that don't add a thing to the story and were better left out. The Nuclear Man I was a pretty silly - read: embarassing - attempt at humor where humor just did not work. But what a joy to have Hackman back. Jon Cryer as Lex's naphew was wasted. Better to have brought back Beatty. I once had a fan magazine that came out just before Supe IV opened. It gave pretty much the entire plot, so I knew about Nuclear Man I, and it indicated that Mariel Hemmingway took the part because it was interesting. With the deleted scenes at last visible, we now know why. The scenes are in an incomplete fashion - special effects are not fully finished. But why couldn't Warner Bros. take the marking pencil off the film so the image was not messed up by black crayon going across the picture. Or are they expecting an expanded series later of their own, and don't want enterprising home editors to re-edit Supe IV for home viewing.All in all, an admirable and long awaited re-release. The last picture is the least of them, but it no longer had the Salkinds, Lester or Donner. No wonder it is less. It isn't only about the actors.

I don't like anyone else playing Superman than Christopher Reeve, so this set is the only one I was interested in.It has all my favorites, Lois, the romance taking her back home to "his" place and becoming one of us. The earthquake that he saves her from and makes the world go back to where it was before the quake...So sorry he is gone what a wonderful being and a beautiful family. No one else in my mind will fill my Supermans shoes......haven't watched them all, but I'm sure I'll enjoy them as he is always a winner, just not in this life.....

No pudo llegar a mejores manos. Gracias.

Superman rules in this movie. I love it.

good collectible

Las películas cambiadas de orden (esto es, en cada DVD venía una cosa distinta de lo que indicaba la propia pegatina). Además, sólo vienen la 1 y la 4, y Superman Returns. De la 2 y la 3, nada. Y eso que las cajas vienen. Pero contienen siempre "otra cosa".

Ich muß meinem Vorredner widersprechen. Diese Edition enthält NICHT "Superman Returns".In dieser Box sind auf neun DVDs alle Superman-Filme mit Christopher Reeve, in allen Varianten, die es gibt. Auf Englisch UND Deutsch.Disc 1: SUPERMAN Der Film (Original Kinoversion) mit der Original-Synchro.Disc 2: SUPERMAN Der Film (Director's Cut) mit der neuen Synchro.Disc 3 und 4: Umfangreiches Bonusmaterial zu SUPERMAN Der Film.Disc 5: SUPERMAN II (Original Kinoversion)Disc 6: Bonusmaterial zu SUPERMAN IIDisc 7: SUPERMAN II (Der Richard Donner Cut) nur auf Englisch.Disc 8: SUPERMAN IIIDisc 9: SUPERMAN IVWie schon gesagt, die einzelnen DVDs entsprechen der deutschen Version. Hier hat man alle vier Superman-Filme in einer schönen Box zusammen.

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Its all 5 of the original Superman movies AND extres, how can you say anything bad :)