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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
Fabric Type: 0085391131045
Gem Type: In the year of Superman Returns, Superman II starring Christopher Reeve also returns - with a totally different beginning and resolution. With Jor-El (Marlon Brando in recently discovered footage) in key scenes that amplify Superman lore and deepen the profound relationship between father and son. With different Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) schemes to unmask Clark Kent as Superman. With.well, with s
Graphics Memory Size: Color, Closed-captioned, Director's Cut, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 25
Maximum Color Depth: Warner Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Metal Type: Warner Home Video
Pearl Type: 113104
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Warner Home Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: November 28, 2006
Total S Video Out Ports: 115 minutes
Warner Home Video
2006
Features:- In the year of Superman Returns, Superman II starring Christopher Reeve also returns - with a totally different beginning and resolution. With Jor-El (Marlon Brando in recently discovered footage) in key scenes that amplify Superman lore and deepen the profound relationship between father and son. With different Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) schemes to unmask Clark Kent as Superman. With.well, with s
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Warner Brothers Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Blu-ray)The Version You Have Never Seen!Unwittingly released from "Phantom Zone" imprisonment, three super-powered Planet Krypton criminals (Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran) plan to enslaveEarth - just when "Superman" (Christopher Reeve) decides to show a more romantic side to Lois Lane (Margot Kidder). Gene Hackman (as Lex Luthor) alsoreturns from the first film and with a top supporting cast, witty Richard Lester direction and visuals that astound and delight. "Superman II" saves the day any day you watch it.
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The Richard Donner cut of Superman II is an infamous legend come to life. Director Donner shot most of the sequel at the same time as his first blockbuster film, but somewhere along the line, the producers and studio lost confidence and brought in Richard Lester (The Three Musketeers) to rework the film, and receive sole credit. For years fans speculated on how different the final film was from Donner's original until an underground copy appeared showing a fully formed feature. In an unprecedented move, Warner Brothers officially embraces this alternate version. For those who have not been part of the rumor mill, know that Donner shot all the footage with Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). You can find blow-by-blow descriptions of what is new/changed elsewhere, but most of the changes deal with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder as the comic-book couple. Donner's cut provides alternate scenes for how Lois tests her hunch that Clark is Superman, the moment he reveals his identity, and how Lois unlearns that truth. Thing is, Lester's reshots are stronger, adding weight to the romance between the two, lifting the picture's stature. Lester also added the dandy Eiffel Tower opening. Donner's chief additions are in the Fortress of Solitude, where Marlon Brando returns to teach (Susannah York, as Superman's mom, appears in the Lester cut). The producers cut Brando's footage so they wouldn't have to pay him millions. The Brando/Reeve scenes continue the father/son dynamic of the first film. There is a great lesson in editing--Lester's less is better than Donner's more--when you compare how Kent turns back into Superman after losing his powers. The Donner cut is completely formed but does use some rehearsal footage, new effects, and some pieces shot by Lester. The history of cinema has many of these stories of movies reshot, hijacked, and changed from the original version, but here the underdog wins and Donner gets his chance to change history, even adding a note in the end credits about the use of fur and smoking as regrettable choices of the time.
Director Donner and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz have a jolly good time revisiting their past on the commentary track. You get a clearer picture of who shot what, but the two have nothing good to say about Lester's edition. Donner doesn't go much into why he was dropped, just a difference of opinion and the need not to pay Brando. He also explains why the déjà vu ending of this edition was used in the first movie and a new ending would have been thought up for part 2. A quick featurette looks at how Michael Thau and a small crew reconstructed the film and compares several scenes from both versions. Also added are additional scenes shot by Donner but not used, most with Hackman. --Doug Thomas
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The original Superman II was not bad if you like action and stunts (that have been repeated hundreds of times since 1980). Even though this Donner Cut is less focused on stunts and gags, it is more thought provoking thanks to the continuation of the Reeves-Brando dialogue. Case in point: in the theatrical version Superman's dad is replaced by his mom in the Temple of Solitude. Even though this actress did a fine job, one cannot help but wonder where the father is, especially after seeing his projected ... Read More
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In late 2006, I was excited to purchase the DVD of Richard Donner's long-lost version of "Superman II" featuring the last "new" footage of Christopher Reeve suiting up as the legendary Man of Steel. Upon viewing Donner's film (complete with the magic of John Williams' original classic score), I confess my reaction was mixed, mostly positive at seeing some cool but imperfect, alternate sequences, but also disappointed that Donner (he seems like a terrific guy) doesn't acknowledge that his replacement, ... Read More
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Okay, I was sucked into the hype of the "original" directors vision. I was all set to be amazed, but instead, all I got was a essentially the same film, only much more inferior with MUCH less involvement from the actors (save for Reeve, and Douglas) and not nearly as exciting moments. The differences between the spliced scenes that were directed by Lester is SO amazingly evident, the actors are SO MUCH MORE INVOLVED with Lester than with Donner. It's almost amazing that so much of it was filmed before ... Read More
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If Superman can turn back time at his whim, why go through the time and effort of fighting villains at all? Time travel is such a cheat in story-telling. And here's a thought: If Superman turned back time in The Movie, thus undoing all the damage caused by the missiles, then shouldn't the rocket that destroyed the Phantom Zone in this cut of Superman II also have been undone? Time travel. End Superman: The Movie this way, and it's a bit annoying, but okay. End the sequel the same way? Really silly ... Read More
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Hey everybody. Remember my review of the Richard Lester version of Superman II? Well, I just saw the Richard Donner Cut and it was a huge improvement over the theatrical release. The plot is virtually the same. It picks up where the first left off, but is more in-depth in showing what happened to one of the missiles Superman dragged into outer space in the first movie. The explosion frees General Zod, Ursa, and Nod (please see my Lester version review for more details). The effects may sometimes be CGI, but ... Read More
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