Film Summary D (Supergirl)


Here I am. At a point I never expected to see. 399 videos ago I came to the conclusion that for every 100 movies I looked at I would do a Superman flick. After all there's 4 Superman movies.
I'll never get high enough to complete all of those! And getting to 500! That's another hundred above all of that.

Inconceivable!!

Now I'm eating those words. Here we are at the 500th movie. Unfortunately it's Supergirl.
It's as bad as everybody claims it to be.
And it's one of the most upsetting things that I've come across in sometime. I like Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) as a character and part of me was really hoping that everybody was over at the size and just how bad this movie was. After all I found myself kind of enjoying Superman 4. It's not technically a good movie but it has some really enjoyable bits. But we just don't get that here.

However there's just a so much going against this film. It has this unnaturally wooden acting to it and nobody seems to know what they're doing.
Our main lead is supposed to come off as a fish out of water character from a strange world now trying to interact with Earth. But she just seems to be Clueless. I don't think anybody knew what to do with any of these characters and they decided to plot them down into the middle of a high school just to pass time.

But this isn't my real problem. My issue comes with what happened after the film. Supergirl was something of a financial flop, but I guess it must have made quite the impression on a few people working in the comic industry.
Because Kara Zor-El was killed later on and a Giants DC crossover event were they trying to restructure the entire universe. And that's very upsetting to me.
Kara Zor-El is my second favourite Kryptonian right after the big Kansas boy himself.
Now in all fairness there were some people who wanted to restrict the kryptonians all the way back to just being Superman.
He was supposed to be the last son of Krypton and you can't really have that when there's SuperGirl, super dog, super horse, super cat, the entire city of Candour in a bottle and a mixture of 15 million other people who seem to pop up from time to time.
It kind of makes Superman's one-off Survival Story insignificant when there's an entire civilisation of people floating around out there.

Something tells me that if Kara Zor-El had done well and people received it well they probably would have kept her around. I mean why not. It's just one extra Kryptonian even if they kept a few of the other people around wouldn't have been that big an issue.
It's a real shame, Supergirl had a more interesting personality. She was prone to anger, she would throw her weight around a bit more from time to time, she had this strange disconnect with people on Earth because she was raised on a Kryptonian microculture.
She had different morals from Superman. There were some things that he did that she would never attempt to do and there were other things that Superman would never do that she was fine with.

As you can tell I'm doing everything in my power to not talk about Supergirl the movie. Because unfortunately there's just not much to bring up here. She spends an awful lot of time in this High School just trying to fit in when really she should be trying to look for the magic ball that's supposed to say for people.

Then there's the antagonist. The big witch woman. Played by Helen Slater. She bothers me a lot because of the wonderful potential we could have with such a villain. There are few things in the universe that can affect kryptonians. One of which is Kryptonite the overused magical Rock that can make Superman become evil if it's red for some reason.
But the other entity that could hurt a Kryptonian is Magic. There as susceptible to incantations and spells as the rest of humanity. There was such an opportunity to use that here. 
Why not have our main antagonist use her magical powers to screw over Supergirl or to make things more difficult for her. 
Maybe even bring in Superman and get him brainwashed by the Witch. 
There's so many Alternatives you can do with this scenario but instead they just give this random hippie Wiccan woman with a magical ball of kryptonians mind control some random guy.

Talk about a crash and burn scenario. At 100 movies I got to watch the original Superman one of my all-time favourite movies. 
Then it was Superman 2 which is still fun but nothing all that amazing. 
Superman 3 is kind of bad but funny (in an odd way) and really really weird. 
Even Superman 4; cheap and horrible in a lot of ways has its own unique charm.

But Supergirl just doesn't get any of that. I'm stuck with my 500 film being an absolutely miserable watch. 
Why couldn't somebody have made this more interesting? 
Hell you could have redone the original Superman movie and just have Supergirl fight another Kryptonian or deal with Lex Luthor. Hick give me Otis. Yes I would have preferred Otis as an antagonist that Kara Zor-El has to deal with. 
Better yet why not bring Zod and the other kryptonians back. 
We see them falling down a big Chasm at the end of Superman 2. It's indicated that they're supposed to be dead but you could show them returning or even show them in a Cell somewhere. It would even answer that most crucial question of; ''Did Superman just let these people die in Superman 2?'' 
If they were incarcerated then you knew that he didn't actually have them killed. 
Although how the one girl survived with Lois Lane throwing her down I'll never know.
Perhaps Superman could have had a magic claw machine or they were just Frozen in time down at the bottom of the Fortress of Solitude.

Conclusion: Don't watch supergirl. 
Go out and find 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' and witness the final battle of Supergirl as she beats the ever-living hell out of the Anti-monitor. It's an upsetting state of affairs that she had to die but at least she went out swinging.

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