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Good movie but grossly overrated

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best movie i've ever seen.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I remember being very excited seeing the trailers for this. I wasn't able to see it it in theatres then, but I still wanted to watch it one day.I didn't know too much about who was in the movie or what the plot was either, except that Helen Slater was Supergirl.Faye Dunaway makes a dastardly villain.Really enjoyed the movie.

Superman's teenage cousin from Argo City on the planet Krypton lets a power source known as the Omegahedron slip away from her into space; without it, the air will become too thin to breathe and the population will suffocate. She takes it upon herself to fly solo to Earth, transforming into Supergirl along the way, where the Omegahedron has fallen into the hands of a greedy, power-seeking cut-rate witch who longs for--what else?--world domination. Helen Slater is a fine choice as Supergirl; her blushing cheeks, wide eyes and angelic smile manage to enchant the audience before she ever gets to do anything. She takes on the persona of a boarding school student--rooming with Lois Lane's little sister!--and, if nothing very exciting happens there, Slater's high spirits are a compensation. Supergirl's nemesis is played by a flame-haired Faye Dunaway (at her most mercurial), with sassy Brenda Vaccaro as her assistant (they're sort of the distaff version of Gene Hackman and Ned Beatty from 1978's "Superman"). Unfortunately, the writing takes a plunge after about 20 minutes. While Supergirl is busy saving various Earthlings from extravagant calamities, one can't help wondering about the desperate people of Argo City, struggling to breathe! Stultifying and overly-familiar, this is definitely a warmed-over superhero saga--and one that doesn't even particularly look good. *1/2 from ****

Only on itself this movie is a mistake of continuity: if the planet Krypton was destroyed, as it is seen in the beginning of Superman, how can there be a city of survivors? The city of Argo miraculously escaped destruction by floating through space as Zaltar invented something as a small but powerful enough ball to create a bubble enveloping the meteorite thus sustaining atmosphere. Yeah...Kara, Superman's cousin, loses this technological marvel sphere and comes to Earth to recover it, having to face a witch who has seized the sphere and uses it to her evil advantage. Helen Slater is very handsome and does her best to play the role of a sweet heroine, but the whole film is compromised by a plot once again stupid and notoriously directed at the female audience with a romance in the middle that adds nothing to the story than to ignite the envy of the witch: notoriously directed at the female audience.PS: Very conveniently, almost at the beginning of the film, a radio broadcast reveals that Superman set out on a mission to a galaxy far away...

Released in 1984, "Supergirl" stars Helen Slater as Superman's cousin, Kara-El, in a community of Krypton survivors who lose the mysterious orb that powers their city. Kara goes to earth to recover it, masquerading as a student at a girl's school, where she meets Lois Lane's sister, Lucy (Maureen Teefy) and, later, Jimmy Olsen (Marc McClure). Peter O'Toole plays the leader of the Krypton city who is imprisoned in the Phantom Zone while Faye Dunaway plays a witch, Selena, who lives at an abandoned amusement park. When she obtains the orb she gains great diabolical power. Brenda Vaccaro and Peter Cook are on hand as her assistants while Hart Bochner plays the romantic interest of both Kara and Selena. Remember how stunning the non-CGI props/sets/effects were in the opening Krypton sequence of 1978's "Superman"? They were so good they hold up to this day. Well, you can forget that with "Supergirl." The opening sequences at "Argo City" are laughable by comparison. Furthermore, if you thought Gene Hackman was over-the-top as Lex Luthor, wait till you see Dunaway's campy portrayal of Selena. But I don't mean any disrespect for Faye since that's how her character was written and she does an exuberant job. In any case, if you can embrace these factors the movie's surprisingly enjoyable, particularly the second act when Kara comes to earth, discovers her powers, and hooks up with the girl's school. Slater had a winsome quality and, although physically beautiful, her costume wasn't made to over-emphasize it. Her beauty stems from within and the movie captures this. At the same time, the movie stresses her femininity and doesn't make her more masculine, like they did with Linda Hamilton in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (not that there's anything wrong with Linda in that film). The film runs 124 minutes and was shot in Chicago, Manhattan and England.GRADE: C+