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Supergirl

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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

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... 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 in order to supercharge her black magic. [More]

Starring: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook

Starring: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Hart Bochner, Peter Cook, Mia Farrow, Marc McClure, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter O'Toole

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Screenwriter: David Odell
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith

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Aug 8, 2000

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Reviews for Supergirl

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a big fat what the f-word

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02/18/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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Jeannot Szwarc's direction is flat and uninspired, emphasizing the jokey elements without any sense at all for the material.

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04/17/07
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Screenplay is filled with witty lines and enjoyable characters, but Jeannot Szwarc's direction is rather flat.

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04/17/07
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This is one comic-book feature that doesn't fly.

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04/17/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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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.

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01/26/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Boils down to a sexist catfight between two fairly powerful women for the affections of a fashionably unshaven landscaper.

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01/01/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

The tagline -- "Her first great adventure." -- is wrong in at least three ways.

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12/10/06
Christopher Null
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Most delightful of the Super-series for its good-natured disregard of narrative considerations.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

No review available.

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07/21/05
Emanuel Levy
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Still something appealing about it. It’s “so bad it’s good”, if you will. That could be the fittingly cast Helen Slater as Supergirl and her alter-ego Linda Lee, it could be the fun escapist fare of a film such as this or it could be the fact that it’s t

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05/12/05
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Super-vacuous.

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01/30/05
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

Why even go to the trouble of making a movie that feels like it's laughing at itself?

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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06/10/04
Andy Klein
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12/01/03
Ryan Cracknell
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10/04/03
Rebecca Murray
About.com

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07/15/03
Josh Gilchrist
Billings Outpost (Montana)

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.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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The 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.

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
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02/17/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
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11/08/02
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