Supergirl Movie Review

This attempt at a companion to the Superman series was a big-budget bomb. Helen Slater made her debut here and nearly killed off her career in the process (well, the Kryptonite didn't help). The film tells the story (such as it was) of a young woman with super powers, Superman's cousin or something. She's in pursuit of a magic doo-dad, but naturally an evil sorceress (Faye Dunaway) wants it too. Dunaway makes a pretty good villainess, and Peter O'Toole, as a good sorcerer, is the best thing in the film. The special effects are fairly impressive, but these factors aren't enough to rescue this tiresome turkey. Slater is great to look at, but she's much better in almost any of her other, later films.

1984 (PG) 114m/C GB Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Marc McClure, Simon Ward, Peter Cook, Hart Bochner, Maureen Teefy, David Healy, Matt Frewer; D: Jeannot Szwarc; W: David Odell; C: Alan Hume; M: Jerry Goldsmith. VHS, Beta, LV LIV