Product Details

• Actors: Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Alison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance
• Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 28, 2006
• Run Time: 926 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JYVKU6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,792 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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• For more information about "Smallville - The Complete Fifth Season [HD DVD]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

• This is item 5 in The Smallville Series.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Consistently solid with some major developments, the fifth season of Smallville kicks the characters off to college, but not before finishing the cataclysmic disaster that ended the fourth season. With Chloe transported to the Arctic Circle and Kryptonian supervillains in town, Clark (Tom Welling) is in the Fortress of Solitude meeting Jor-El (voiced by Terence Stamp). He gives up his powers, but to get them back will cost him the life of someone he loves.

The even bigger development is that Clark and Lana (Kristin Kreuk) finally give up their dalliances with others and become an official couple. That means the other girls in Clark's life become fifth and sixth wheels, so Chloe (Allison Mack) reveals the secret she's been keeping from Clark and becomes a best pal. Super-gorgeous Lois's (Erica Durance, now part of the opening credits) banter with Clark loses its bite without any sexual tension so instead she meets Arthur "AC" Curry, a fantastic swimmer who has an eye for Lois and an accusing one toward Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) and LutherCorp. He's not the only one; Clark's Central Kansas A&M professor, Milton Fine (James Marsters) hires Clark to help him on his project, an expose of LutherCorp. Lex is the pivotal character of the season. His relationship with his best friend, Clark, now history, Lex has a Christmas Carol-type dream in which he sees himself in a law-abiding--and happy--life. (That episode, "Lexmas," also has some amusing interplay involving Clark and Chloe.) Undeterred, he decides on a life of power and dives into a state senate race against Jonathan Kent with gusto, though a fanatical Lex supporter turns the race into a literal one for life and death. Lionel Luthor (John Glover) also makes a strong comeback in this season, pulling unseen levers and making everyone wonder exactly what he knows.

There's some fun. "Thirst" is a tribute to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and another DC Comics character, Cyborg (Teen Titans), appears. Carrie Fisher plays Chloe's editor at The Daily Planet, and "Exposed" reunites Schneider with former Dukes of Hazzard costar Tom Wopat, and the two go peeling out in a vehicle. But things come to a head in the series 100th episode, when Jor-El's prediction comes to pass and splintered relationships end up leading in unexpected directions. Then in the season finale's cliffhanger, Clark has to face three of his enemies. --David Horiuchi

Product Description
An astonishing season of destiny! Clark Kent now carries a full load of classes at Central Kansas U., but that's not all he carries. He carries the full weight of his - perhaps the world's - destiny. "We call this season Superman in Training," series co-creator Alfred Gough says. "Clark is going to accept his destiny." During this exciting pivotal season: The Fortress of Solitude rises. A spaceship mystery unfolds. A dark tragedy - one even Clark's powers can't prevent - strikes. These and more key elements of Superman lore fall into place.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, December 20, 2006

By	Israel Soler (Redwood City, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Looks even better than the HD broadcasts. It's a very colorful show and that definitely comes through beautifully on HD-DVD. The In-Program Experience on the first episode is really interesting most of the time. If you're a fan of the show it's absolutely worth buying again in HD and if you're not a fan it's good reference material because of the awesome color reproduction. Fun show and looks good too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Can You Say DEFECTIVE!!!, April 27, 2008

By	T. L. Givens - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I won't comment on the program because If I didn't enjoy it, I would not have purchased it. But there is something that bears mentioning, the defective HD-DVD 5th season. It's bad enough 3 of the 5 Smallville discs would not play, but when amazon replaced it with another box set, there was 1 disc that would not play. Well, I guess you could say it was an improvement...NOT!!! I won't beat up amazon too bad. It also bears mentioning they did give me 30 days to return the box set though they sent the replacement immediately. That's good customer service in my book. I only wished the product workmanship was equal to the service. I received an e-mail from customer service; to my surprise this experience with this HD-DVD box set was not limited to just me. Folks, I think we have a bone to pick with Warner Brothers as they produced this HD-DVD. Okay I'm off my soap box

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Show, Lame Transfer, October 5, 2007

By	Uracas "Uracus" (Tamuning, Guam United States) - See all my reviews

Great season, though the end was not as grand as 5. Thre are so many things to love about this series: masterful use of saturated color (lending a comic book authenticity), witty scripting (moving beyond its original written form), and acting that is exact. The story telling in the Smallville series is some of the best out there and gets better with season 6: The Justice League, Chloey's powers, the Martian Manhunter, guest appearances like Lynda Carter...etc.

I'm dinging this one for poor video transfer quality. The season 5 regular DVD disc set is comparable in quality. It is actually less grainy though not as resolute in some scenes. I'm not an expert but the look of the season 6 video looks to be of a low bit rate and grainy. OK, grainy can be explained by the dark scenes where maybe they needed more exposure latitude, but the overall poor quality appears as though the season was produced exclusively for cable TV distibution which would require a low bitrate to save file size/bandwidth, then that hack job was slapped on an HD-DVD disc. The Blu-Ray version is worse IMO, so lets not make this an HD-DVD limitation issue.

Still worth buying of course, as it is worth twice the price I paid in entertainment... Lets hope they do a better job next time on the transfer and do justice to this American classic.