Supergirl Movie Review: Milly Alcock’s lead film is flat, pretentious and underwhelming

Language: English

Director:  Craig Gillespie

Cast: Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz

‘Superman’ stole our hearts last summer, but 'Supergirl' did not. In fact, it broke our hearts. ‘Superman’ was relatable, and at least it brought to life the comic book hero. This movie, ‘Supergirl’, I won’t say that it’s a complete disaster, but it's definitely a total rundown, though it will entertain you only sporadically.

The script for ‘Supergirl’ wasn’t up to the mark. The feminism that ‘Supergirl’ is harping on is absolutely shallow. It is loaded with noise and lacks proper execution by the filmmaker, Craig Gillespie. My point is if you are trying to sell feminism, don’t make it look shallow, please, because that’s disturbing, and I remember that’s exactly what Wonder Woman did and failed at it massively. Forget about glorifying fake feminism, but my point is donot underestimate the intellect of the audiences.

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The film starts with a dialogue which says, “Why Supergirl is still a girl and not a woman whereas Superman gets to be a man and not a boy.” Now, that to be is something call rebel feminism or radical feminism.

A still from Supergirl movie

The film follows Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock), a jaded survivour of Krypton who spent her youth surviving a dying world where she lost her parents to a nuclear radiation leak. In the entire town where she lived, people were dying. So, she and her puppy, Krypto, were sent to her cousin Superman.

But when a villain named Krem of the Yellow Hills injures her dog Krypto with a poisonous dart, Kara reluctantly teams up with a young alien named Ruthye Marye Knoll on an interstellar quest for vengeance and justice and goes in search of an antidote to save her dog, who is the only companion she has in her life after losing her parents.

A still from Supergirl movie

The Supergirl movie is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed 2021–2022 DC Comics graphic novel miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, written by Tom King. But sadly, the film couldn’t bring to life the comic characters the way we expected, like the way last year’s summer release of 'Superman' did. Being a ‘hard drinker’ and unnecessarily rude doesn’t make you a feminist or even a cool girl. Rather, it’s a cliché, and I guess Supergirl needs some good lessons on feminism, its origin, and how it has evolved over a period of time.

The only thing that I liked about the film is Krypto (Supergirl’s puppy) and the fact that he doesn’t die. Overall the film was overtly underwhelming. Supergirl is not only a wasted opportunity of the adaptation of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow for the makers but an absolute waste of time too.

Rating: 1 and half (out of 5)

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