This is one of the great movies of the 80's in MY collection that I think about all the time.

Supergirl is an excellent film that in My opinion is one the greatest of all time. The film stars Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Peter Cook, Simon Ward, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, Maureen Teefy, and David Healy. The acting by all of these actors is really great. Slater was just perfect for the role of Supergirl. I couldn't believe how much I liked her in this film. She is just so beautiful and her acting is just great. Dunaway was excellent, and O'Toole was good as always. Vaccaro was good and funny. McClure is the same as he was in the Superman films which is good. The action is great and some of it is really cool and the special effects is great. The movie is filmed really good. The music is so powerful and extraordinary by the late great Jerry Goldsmith. In My opinion this is just not one of his all-time greatest scores, its just not of the greatest scores but one of the greatest pieces of music of all time! Excellent directing by Jeannot Szwarc! The film is so exciting, wonderful, lovely, and the film keeps you watching until the very last end credit! This is such a great and wonderful film. If you like Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Marc McClure, the rest of the cast in the film, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comic Book Feature Films, and interesting films then I strongly recommend that you do what I did and buy this astonishing film today!

Movie Nuttball's NOTE:

The following is in My opinions. What the heck is wrong with this film? Why the bad and negative comments? Why the extremely low rating of only 4.3/10 stars? I really have no clue. As I said before in My opinion this is one the greatest films and its just as strong as the Superman films. What makes the Supergirl film as mighty is because of the great actress who played Supergirl and Jerry Goldsmith's epic score. I think its really a shame that this film is misunderstood and to think that there could have been Supergirl sequels which I would of loved!

Kara Zor-El (Helen Slater) lives in an isolated community of Kryptonians. Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) lends the powerful Omegahedron for Kara to play with. It gets lost out in space and Kara chases after it. It lands on earth where Selena (Faye Dunaway) and Nigel are having a picnic. Selena uses it to power her witchcraft. Kara lands on earth and discovers her new powers. She takes on the identity of Linda Lee, cousin of Clark Kent, and attends a girls private school with Lucy Lane, younger sister of Lois Lane. She falls for grounds-keeper Ethan. Selena uses a love potion on Ethan.

This came out between Superman III and IV. The quality is similarly somewhere between III and IV. There are a lot of silly things going on in this one. The addition of magic is a big hurdle when the movie is trying to make a flying girl believable. It becomes extremely campy. I'm fine with Helen Slater as Supergirl. The main problem for her is that she's forced to deal with a lot of silly girlie situations. She's on a world endangering quest. Yet she deals with mean girls and puppy love. It's another step on the inevitable decline of the early Superman franchise.

Probably one of the cheesiest non-official sequels of all time, "Supergirl" is a film so silly I'm surprised that actors involved in it don't disown it off of their resume. While this received Razzie awards for two of the performances (Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole),I don't blame their performances so much on them as I do the script and the director. In watching the VHS version of this film (listed here as two and a half hours, but mercifully cut down to 100 minutes),I am glad that I wasn't given the opportunity to suffer from the longer European print. It is cheesy, often boring, and while I felt sorry for O'Toole, Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro, I was completely underwhelmed by Helen Slater who in a highly anticipated film debut seemed so in need of stronger direction. Her performance is as glass-like as the panes which held Terence Stamp, Jack O'Halloran and Sarah Douglas hostage in the first "Superman" movie.

Superman, whom we do not see here, apparently has a cousin, and it is obvious that they did not go to the same acting schools. Helen Slater's character is dressed unlike her supergirl character in the first film, and suddenly flies out of the ocean like Venus rising from a clam shell, in her college fraternity Halloween costume. This is after somehow a magic crystal flew off of her home planet and somehow landed in Faye Dunaway's picnic basket, leading the sociopathic Dunaway, already intent on taking over the world, to create a huge mountain in the middle of New Jersey it appears, that is after Dunaway kidnaps handsome Hart Bochner away from Slater (with the help of a T-Rex look-alike dump truck) apparently just to make him her lover. Whatever Brenda Vaccaro is doing here, she looks completely out of place. I guess she's supposed to be the counterpart of Lex Luther's sidekick, Ned Beatty, but really gets nothing to do but react to Dunaway's intense, campy presence.

I didn't find anything to warrant Peter O'Toole in his two scenes receiving a Razzie award; He's as theatrical as he always is, basically being like Laurence Olivier's Zeus from "Clash of the Titans" with less screen time to provide some wisdom. Mia Farrow is completely wasted in the American edit of this film, and being unimpressed with Slater, that leads Dunaway for me as the only reason to give this film a higher rating than a complete bomb. It is obvious that she is having a great time being silly for a change, but the outlandish way she's photographed just makes her come off as a one dimensional witch with little dimension to add beyond that. No motivation within the edited American version gives her any believability, and coming off of "Mommie Dearest" and "The Wicked Lady" (from which she seems to have a re-styled version of the same wig) it is sad to see her downgraded from Oscar winning modern legend to a bit of a joke. Fortunately the same year, she had a juicy, vital part in the TV mini-series "Ellis Island" which won her a Golden Globe and showed what she could really do when the material suited her vast talents.

The special effects in the first few "Superman" movies when judged against this make "Supergirl" look extremely cheap and almost vulgar, and considering that this is from the "Star Wars" era where excellent special effects began to be expected for blockbusters, it is a travesty that it looks so bad. The story is messy and there's really not enough here to make me root for "Supergirl"/Linda Lee the way I did for "Superman"/Clark Kent. By having the character of Jimmy Olsen appear in a bit cameo and someone who was supposed to be Lois Lane's plane Jane sister only seemed to indicate some kind of desperation. This is the type of film that didn't need to be over two hours long, but the moronic juvenile script just makes this become a complete misfire where had I seen this in the theater, I would have been throwing my popcorn at the screen rather than munching on it.