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Smallville: The Complete Fifth Season
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The newer packaging spoils things a bit!
Review date: 2008-03-28 Rating: 6 out of 10
I agree with a previous reviewer that the box spoils the presentation of our Smallville collection a bit. I don't know if the later seasons are going to be presented in this newer (cheaper looking) packaging, but I was liking the style they had going with the previous seasons. I think that maybe they chose this more compact (cheaper) style because they were wasting far too much money printing those nice little insert booklets for us that contained the episode summaries. We aren't getting one with this set. The episode summaries are printed onto each side of the slim DVD cases instead. These money saving methods can be kinder to storage space though, because this is a slimmer season set. Just display it by its spine, as the edge showing the seperate DVD case spines looks horrible. But, at the end of the day, it's Smallville, and I am sure this season is as good as all of the others have been to watch. The cheaper packaging doesn't really change the content or quality of the individual episodes, does it? :)
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Reviews
My Favorite Season of "Smallville"
Review date: 2008-01-17 Rating: 10 out of 10
I think this season was the best one so far. I especially liked Milton Fine. He was a really good villain for Clark to face. And he was also able to outsmart Lex at his own game.
Brandon Simpson
bit hit and miss
Review date: 2007-10-31 Rating: 6 out of 10
as much as i love smallville, this isn't the best series. it has quite a few highs - in particular the last scene of 'lexmas' which is equally exciting and heartbreaking, and whoever thought to put michael rosenbaum and james marsters in a show together is frankly a genius. however some of the episodes just plod along as if they were saving everything for the finale - which is a very good one.
although i was slightly disappointed by this season when it was on tv i think it could just be a transitional series, taking them away from the familiar and towards where they want to end up, that could end up growing on you. I found that happened with series six of buffy - when that was first on i actually stopped watching it but then when i watched it again after having watched series 7 i began enjoying it more and more. a bit of slump after four great years but still a winning show.
also i don't think the constant breaks on channel four helped, they just made it soo frustrating, perhaps on dvd it will be a completely different viewing experience.
Zod is Coming...
Review date: 2007-08-21 Rating: 8 out of 10
Clark Kent is back; armed with only super powers and flannel shirts, can he save the world from Zod...?
In season 5 of Smallville, Lana Lang and Clark Kent finally get it together. Clark, who has temporarily lost his powers, feels he can finally be honest with Lana. However, their happiness is be short-lived as Clark's powers are restored, and he is forced into lying to her again. Needless to say, their on/off relationship is now off, again. But don't worry too much about Lana - Lex is there to console her... Clark, however, has other things to worry him, such as Milton Fine, a liquid-metal shape shifter (T1000 anyone?) who is putting into play a villainous scheme to bring back Zod, Krypton's version of a genocidal maniac.
Season 5, in my opinion, has tried to be to be a little bit different from other seasons of Smallville, and not necessarily to its detriment. Quite a few of the episodes are movie pastiches; the most blatant would be Mercy, which is an obvious pastiche of the Saw movies. There are many other movie tributes this season; for example, Carrie and Stir of Echoes are touched upon, to name but a few. I love movie references, personally: recognizing them is the only time that I, as a total movie geek, can feel superior to others, and it is also the only time when I know that all those hours watching low-budget horror flicks has not been wasted!?! But the homage does not stop at the movies for this season. One episode has a vampire called Buffy Saunders, who Lana just has to slay, and there's a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet in another - very highbrow for what is quintessentially a teenage drama.
For those among you who aren't distracted by allusions to other forms of popular culture, there is plenty to entertain in this season's Smallville. Lex is as shady and charismatic as usual, Chloe and Clark kiss, and Lois is her angst-filled, no- nonsense self.
Like all the other seasons of Smallville, this show owes more to programmes like X Files than it does to the original Superman comics, with the supernatural rather than the extraterrestrial element penetrating every episode. But don't lose heart, Sci-Fi fans: Zod is coming; therefore, I can only imagine that season 6 will be steeped in Superman mythology.
Great Series - too much information from reviews
Review date: 2007-07-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
We think 'Smallville' from start to finish is great entertainment. I would ask some reviewers to please restrain their enthusiasm by giving toooooooooo much information away on the Series plot. To say what happens to that character or that character dies off is spoiling the program for others. Great TV. We never watched when released on the TV channels and to watch without commercial breaks (like any series) is fantastic !!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Allison Mack
Erica Durance
Kristin Kreuk
Michael Rosenbaum
Tom Welling
Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900762090
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 6
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2006-08-28
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 924 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)