ThiefHott Too much of everything

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Morfindel_Werwulf Have someone wondered if it would be a good movie?How she get her "Super" clothes? How Selena knew about the Phantom Zone? Mix superpowers and witchcraft seemed to someone a good story?

capone666 SupergirlThe unique thing about female superheroes is that they turn into super-villains every 30-days.Luckily, Kryptonian woman, like the one featured in this action-adventure, don't have periods.Tracking the Omegahedron, an all-powerful energy source, from Superman's home world to his adopted planet, Kara not only assumes his Earth lineage but also Clark's alter ego.Enrolled at an all-girls school where she falls for the caretaker Ethan (Hart Bochner), Supergirl must battle the witch Selena (Faye Dunaway) for Ethan's heart. Unfortunately, Selena is in possession of the Omegahedron and a shadow demon that she'll use to conquer humanity.Existing in the same world as Christopher Reeve's Superman, this 1984 adaptation of the DC Comics character was an early prototype of the shared superhero universe. Unfortunately, Superman fatigue had set in by the time this underrated romp was released.Moreover, it's nice that Superman finally has a sexual partner he won't annihilate.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

commorancy This movie is an okay film, but offers no where near the wonder, amusement or story as Superman (the first film). However, the real problem with this film is, unfortunately, Helen Slater.As good as Helen Slater looks in the Supergirl costume, her acting was just as oppositely bad. Most of the time, Slater's acting was flat and wooden. She has a weird speech pattern that, most of the time just didn't work for the role. While I realize, Kara is from Argo City, it was never established that people there had weird speech patterns, unless you count the over-the-top scene-chewing dialog that spewed from Peter O'Toole's mouth. I can forgive Peter O'Toole's Shakespearean dialog delivery for several reasons: 1) he's a supplemental character who, thankfully, has limited screen time, 2) what he says and does is mostly inconsequential to the main plot of the film and 3) it establishes that O'Toole's character, who was a former well known and respected scientist has now become an eccentric crackpot who is no longer respected for any of his ideas.However, Slater is the lead in this film. As a lead in a superhero film, the actor must strike up a rapport with the audience immediately as both likable and believable. Slater fails to properly secure both of those qualities with the audience and, instead, goes on to deliver a mostly utilitarian screen romp. Unfortunately, while Slater tries hard to make Kara seem innocent and sympathetic and likable, her 19 year old acting abilities are severely taxed and get in the way of this role. In other words, while she looks the part, she couldn't act it. She was ultimately miscast.As for Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vacarro and the rest of the cast, they do their level best to bring some semblance of life to their characters and roles. Sure, Dunaway is way over-the-top like O'Toole, but in her own different way. For the witch Selena, her over the top delivery, while a bit campy, works for what it is. In fact, if the lead role had been cast properly, I believe Dunaway's offbeat acting would have worked perfectly fine to balance the mostly straight forward lead role.Instead, what we get is an odd array of actors with very little chemistry or balance together. Though, Brenda Vacarro and Faye Dunaway together as a team was probably the best casting in the film. These two truly seemed to be BFFs and pulled it off in spite of the dialog.The story itself is simplistic and silly. Two super people fighting over a 'muscle pool guy' is about as inane a plot device as you can think up for a superhero film. Argo City is in peril and Supergirl has a school girl crush on some random muscle guy that she feels she has to constantly save? Yeah, no.Saving the Omegahedron, the power source of Argo City, is her most important task. Yet she has time to gawk at and save this muscle guy too many times from Selena, let alone run around at some girl school playing student in a tiny town. I know why they included the school. It was intended as a way to introduce Lucy Lane... an inconsequential character that didn't need to be in the film. Yes, it did let us know that Lois has a younger sister, but still an entirely unnecessary addition to the film.Having Supergirl thrown into the phantom zone and then emerging only to fight Selena's 'demon' left the film about as much fun as yanking off an adhesive bandage. Overall, I was hoping for a more sensible Superhero film with Supergirl taking on more important tasks than facing a silly little witch. In fact, Supergirl should have been able to find and retrieve the Omegahedron in the first 15 minutes of the film which would have left 1.25 hours to actually let Supergirl explore more of the earth, pick and choose more important problems to solve rather than be stuck in a tiny inconsequential town saving a lame muscle guy who's character is about as dumb as a brick. I can't even fathom why someone from an advanced society like Argo City who is smart enough to understand sixth dimensional math would be at all interested in a dumb earth muscle jock?

Smoreni Zmaj 4.3 on IMDb almost turned me away from this movie, but now, when I did see it, I'm completely confused by rating so bad. OK, story is full of holes and illogicalities. If I was taking notes during the movie I could write a novel made of all nonsense I noticed. I mean, Kara brings her world to the edge of destruction and goes to Earth to try to make things right, but when she arrives, instead of trying to recover energy source in panic, she enjoys nature and her newfound abilities, flying around like butterfly and acting like child. The witch who gains possession of power source instantly knows what it is and how to use it. She knows about Phantom Zone and how to send Supergirl in it... But to cut long story short, cause there's a bunch of similar crap, this kind of plot holes and nonsense is typical for this kind of movies. If we ignore that flaw, this movie is really beautiful and entertaining, and most of all, it's really well done. It is much better than Superman 2 & 3, and as I hear, infinitely better than Superman 4. Technically speaking, it is better even than original Superman movie, but being 16 years younger that comparison would not be fair, because of accumulated experience in making superhero movies and technology advances. Personally, I do not like Helen Slater too much, but for 19 years old girl in her first serious role she did great job playing Supergirl. Interesting fact is that 30 years later she appears in Supergirl TV series in role of Supergirl's adopted mother. Faye Dunaway nailed role of evil sorceress, which is expected as that kind of role fits her the best. Special effects are fantastic for its time and pretty much believable even for today's viewer. And what is most important, this is definitely the most fun DC movie up to date. I enjoyed all 138 minutes of director's cut and I would love to have it in my collection.8,5/10