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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Supergirl (International Version)
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Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro
Directed By: Jeannot Szwarc
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305970842
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 630597084X
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: 2000-08-08
Running Time: 124
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1984-11-21
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Summary: Everyone looks so bored. Cheesy and confusing.
Comment: The whole production looks CHEAP, like it was made quickly for TV. I must say the flying sequences are very good but the story is a mess and really makes little sense at the beginning. Supergirl ends up traveling to Earth and decides for no apparent reason to put on a lovely new Supergirl outfit while on the way. Everyone, save Faye, looks completely bored with the whole thing. Wild things happen but people just look on in mild surprise or no reaction at all. Most people speak with a British accent where Supergirl comes from (I still don't understand where that is) and they just seem to walk around aimlessly. I think the cast is first rate but they apparently have no idea what to do. Is it the director's fault? The writing? I don't know. It seems like everyone is just going through the motions so they can get their paycheck and move on to their next project. A strange movie that left me cold. Did everyone take seditives while acting in this? Supergirl's
"love" interest is especially bad in his acting. The story is ridiculous and incomprehensible at times. Besides the flying, the FXs are z-grade junk. What a stinker! The director's cut is a tad better, but not by much. Still stinks.
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Summary: I'm glad I bought this
Comment: Supergirl has long been one of my favorite movies. I'd catch it on TV when it was on and even recorded one version with my VCR. But the one problem was that I was at the mercy of the TV channels, editing the movie as they saw fit. Therefore, I'm glad that I bought this movie, the full 124-minute version, with all the scenes together, even ones that I don't think I had ever seen before.
The movie itself is great. It's fast paced; it's inspirational, with a naive and scared teenager having to use her intelligence to save her people; it's got great acting, especially Faye Dunaway's inspired mad performance; and so forth.
The DVD contains the full version of the movie, as well as director's commentary--with director Jeannot Szwarc and historian Scott Bosco talking about the movie as it's playing. It's an interesting take on it (particularly on the Phantom Zone scenes) and is obviously candid, since the director does embarrass himself a couple times. Supposedly, there's also the theatrical trailer, which I'd love to see, but I can't access it with my DVD player (I'm sure it's just a problem with my DVD player and not with DVD itself).
Amazon does have an error, though. Amazon claims this is rated PG; however, this version is unrated, because it's ten minutes longer than the PG-rated version.
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Summary: Sorry. It doesn't even rise to the level of guilty pleasure.
Comment: I hadn't seen this in 24 years. As a huge teenaged fan of the Superman family mythos, I was crushed by the poor quality of this film when it was released in 1984. Seeing all the glowing "camp value" reviews here I decided to give it another go - for laughs. But I couldn't get through the first half of it without wandering off to check the laundry. It wasn't funny. Just mind-numbingly nonsensical and dull, dull, dull.
The problem is not the effects. They're actually above average for an early 80s film. Nor is it the cast. They're all talented actors (some of them Oscar winners) and Helen Slater is very pretty and gives it her dead-level best in her first movie role. She was a fine choice to play Supergirl. She just did it in the wrong movie!
The problem is an abysmally ham-handed, out-of-left-field, emotionally flat script that makes no logical sense whatsoever. Even fantasy worlds have rules within themselves but the world of David O'Dell and Jeannot Szwarc's Supergirl has none. Zero. Zilch.
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Summary: SILLY BUT HALF ENTERTAINING - EXCUSE ME, CULT MOVIE
Comment: "You girls are rank amateurs playing with fire!"
"Because WE own the matches."
Better than average flick that cashes in on a winning formula. Faye Dunaway as the villainess, lending a little star weight. Keep your expectations way low and you'll probably enjoy much of it, in spite of yourself. I haven't turned it off, and I will when movies bore me too much. This one hasn't yet, though it is undeniably ridiculous. NOTE: THIS IS MY REVIEW AFTER HALF AN HOUR.
"Oh terrific, the old dangling in a cage thing".
Actually, it has the flavor of a cult B-movie at times. There's something of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Faye Dunaway's fiendish character - like where are the whips and chains? Supergirl is probably one of the sexiest superheroes to come along, beautiful in her SuperGirl outfit with blond hair, less so as a brunette in her girl school uniform. Besides being superequiped with all the powers that run in the SuperFamily, she's also quite the romantic. THIS AFTER AN HOUR AND A HALF.
Actually, this movie gets better as it goes along and fully deserves cult status for it's combination of ridiculousness, dark B movie scenarios and a quirkiness that develops into all the classic proportions as the movie goes on. The eighties was a good decade for that kind of thing I guess. This movie has dark netherworlds, a black magic villain and a pretty superhero with a girlish charm. What more could you ask for? I can understand some people giving this five stars. For the right audience, it could be.
p.s. - the cover of the US version takes itself too seriously I think. My Japanese zone 2 version, as usual, has the essential cover art - in this case, the original movie poster (it's a drawing of Supergirl flying up into space with a demon behind her and a schoolgirl in uniform in the background - drawing style similar to original Star Wars poster). I don't understand why dvd makers insist on updating and modernizing artwork for classic movies, or why they can't use images from the movie that have more sense of art, mystery, or general cleverness or humour in them - or original movie posters for some. I just bought Henry Winkler's "The One and Only" (1978) and they didn't bother to use the original art of the film (which had been used for the videotape) but instead opted for some cheesy modern photo that was supposed to encapsulate the feeling of the movie, but which totally didn't have and feeling of the times. People often watch these movies to capture that retro flavor. No one's hoping they're gonna come up to standards with the latest Hollywood blockbuster - so why all the boring cover art?
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Summary: God Aweful
Comment: God Aweful, the worst superhero movie ever filmed, point blank. This even makes Superman 4 look like great cinema and that's a damn shame. I watched the first 15 minutes of it and shut it off in disgust. Their interpretation of Kara's character is just pitiful to say the least. She came off as an irresponsible little brat in the begining, how she went to earth and the entire scene where she emerges from the lake automatically wearing the Supergirl suit? ? ? come on now
DO NOT BUY, DO NOT RENT, just forget this movie even exhist's
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