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02/18/08
Supergirl (1984)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:2
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: The effects are cheesy and Supergirl's wide-eyed, cheery heroine simply isn't interesting to watch for an hour and a half.
Runtime: 4 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A young woman searching for an orb of immense power travels to Earth, and there instantly acquires super abilities. Standing in her way is an evil and powerful sorceress, who has captured the orb... [More]
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Reviews for Supergirl
Jeannot Szwarc's direction is flat and uninspired, emphasizing the jokey elements without any sense at all for the material.
04/17/07
Top CriticScreenplay is filled with witty lines and enjoyable characters, but Jeannot Szwarc's direction is rather flat.
04/17/07
Top CriticThis is one comic-book feature that doesn't fly.
04/17/07
The plain fact is that director Jeannot Szwarc turns in a movie so ludicrous and overblown that it skips right over any semblance of logic and into a self-absorbed flight of fancy.
01/26/07
Boils down to a sexist catfight between two fairly powerful women for the affections of a fashionably unshaven landscaper.
01/01/07
The tagline -- "Her first great adventure." -- is wrong in at least three ways.
12/10/06
Most delightful of the Super-series for its good-natured disregard of narrative considerations.
02/09/06
No review available.
07/21/05
Why even go to the trouble of making a movie that feels like it's laughing at itself?
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
12/01/03
No review available.
07/15/03
Miss Slater makes a four-square heroine of unrelenting sincerity; a sturdy ingenue, she is great fun to look at but hardly a live wire.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe Girl of Steel deserves a better movie, and a better actress to play her. Slater is very cute and looks good in the tights, but is far too wooden. Plot is utterly ridiculous.
03/19/03
No review available.
02/17/03
No review available.
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