Supergirl is a wonderfully constructed movie. The castings of Helen Slater as Supergirl, Academy Award Winner Faye Dunaway as Selina, Peter O Toole, Peter Cooke, Marc McClure et all, is inspired. The Direction by Jeannot Swarzc is bouncy and bubbly and adds to the fun. The Special effects are th e best seen in any Alexander/Ilya Salkind produce movie [and perhaps the best in any fantasy movie full stop]. Alan Humes photography is simply stunning and Jerry Goldsmiths Themes are superb. The problem lies as with most Salkind produced movies [And most blockbusters made by big studios today]with the script. David Odell's Wizard of Oz style Rom-com is awful. Odell employs the most stupid of themes for a movie of this kind by making it alove story, and worse still is characters [Linda Lee Ethan and Selina] are poorly written and un-interesting. David and Leslie Newman showed with their work on Superman The Movie and Superman III, how this sort of ting should be handled.
In favour of the movie, Helen Slater is very good and very attractive as the heroine. She is alittle more comfortable as the dorothy like Kara than Superman alike Supergirl. Faye Dunaway is suitable as the evilish Selina, and Peter O Toole impresses as Zaltar. Others like Peter Cooke and Brenda Vacaro are hillarious, but Maureen Teefy as Lucy and Hart Brochner as Ethan are awful.
Overall thought, the sets, special effects, music and performances win through. This is an enjoyable movie but no Superman II or Superman III. And this is apety because it could easily have been just that.
In favour of the movie, Helen Slater is very good and very attractive as the heroine. She is alittle more comfortable as the dorothy like Kara than Superman alike Supergirl. Faye Dunaway is suitable as the evilish Selina, and Peter O Toole impresses as Zaltar. Others like Peter Cooke and Brenda Vacaro are hillarious, but Maureen Teefy as Lucy and Hart Brochner as Ethan are awful.
Overall thought, the sets, special effects, music and performances win through. This is an enjoyable movie but no Superman II or Superman III. And this is apety because it could easily have been just that.