Supergirl Review
I have to admit, it is a little lame.
I watched it once as a kid, and finally watched it again last night. I aleady knew it was a mediocre story with painfully corny characters and dialog. But what really struck me this time was the sheer uselessness of Supergirl.
Time after time, in every Supergirl scene, she proved her worthlessness. A rampaging truck tears through a town? Only Supergirl can stop it! But lets sit around and watch it first. We've got to let it destroy half the town before we do anything, at least!
(Hmmm... Some fire about to blow up the gas station? Think, Supergirl! Think HARD! "Uh, let's go destroy the town's water tower. That might help." No, Supergirl, no. You have freezing breath, remember? Ah, forget it.)
Or an invisible monster comes toward her, destroying everything in its path. Would have been kind of nice if she had stopped it before it tore up the lawn too bad, you know? Instead, she stand and stares at it. She's good at that, if anything. Standing and staring. Of course I don't mind looking at her, but still...
And then there's the times when the "cute dude" gets kidnapped and abused - again and again... Seems like it would be a good time for Supergirl to do something about it, right? She seems strangely inept for the job. When she finally does rescue him - from some evil bumper cars, no less - He immediately gets assaulted by a coconut. She even sees it coming! But instead of using her super speed, or even telling the guy "heads up!", she opts for standing by helplessly. While the nut hits him on the head, splitting his skull open and leaving him to die a slow, painful, lingering death- (Oops! My bad. Just dreamin' for a moment there. That particular actor survives this movie, unfortunately. He doesn't die until Hans Gruber shoots him in the first Die Hard, for which I am grateful. Thank you, Hans!)
I think you get my point, but I've got to mention the whole "walk into the enemy lair and get trapped in the phantom zone" routine, as if she couldn't have seen that coming! (Okay, to be fair maybe she couldn't. But I'm on a roll here!) But the final point was when she was getting threatened by the floor collapsing beneath her. Uh, hello? You're Supergirl? You can FLY, remember? Fly girl, fly!
Oh well. It was still nice at the end, when she finished off the bad guy with- what? A whirlwind? I didn't quite get that. But whatever. All's well that ended well. And an enjoyable popcorn flick it was.
I know others have already mentioned it, but Helen Slater is super-hot, for sure. I liked watching her, even if the script she was given was painful at times. Also, Faye Dunaway made for a great villain. And she was pretty darn hot, too. I would have liked being her "gardener boy" anytime.
Watch for Helen Slater also in "The Secret of My Success", another good 80's flick.
P.S. I couldn't help but wince when Supergirl delivered a "Super Kick" to the one guy... Say it with me, folks: "Ouch!"
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