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At the Movies, with Siskel & Ebert, 1984-Supergirl

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Uploaded by on Feb 2, 2009

Ebert calls this a human version of a Saturday morning cartoon.

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  • Most Female Hero movies don't work because they are poorly written.If you did this to any Superman movie, it'd be as bad as "Supergirl". Case in point: Superman 4!

  • Not to be sexist or anything, but female superhero movies just don't work. This movie, Catwoman and several others are just trash.

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  • I'm still waiting for that great female superhero picture.

  • SUPERSUCK!!!! SUPERSUCK!!! SUPERHURL!!!!

  • @Headbanger142 They could work with some more effort put into them. The animated Wonder Woman movie was pretty good. Catwoman could have been good if they put alittle more into the plot and didn't make it look like a cosmetics comercial.

  • @dbreiden83080 Not necessarily. What about Batman from the 1960s?

  • @Headbanger142

    Comic book movies don't work when they are not taken seriously.. Too many of them have been made as cheesy parodies with bad direction and poor casts. Done right you get Batman 1989 and Dark Knight, Superman the Movie, Iron Man. Done wrong you get Batman and Robin, Superman 3 and Fantastic Four.. It works when the material is not made fun of.. It is embraced as reality..

  • I disagree about Helen Slater thought she was perfectly cast.. But yeah the movie is bad..

  • this is my secound most haited super hero movie only to batman and robin

  • @Headbanger142 thats because female superheroes largely pander to male fantasies, which can't be made or dealt with on big budget, pg-13 standards.

  • "Supergirl" proved the Salkinds were wrong and Richard Donner was right about how to handle these films. The Salkinds wanted to go with the campy, over-the-top spirit of the 1960s "Batman" TV series, while Donner wanted to play it straight with a touch of humor. The Salkinds won out and the movies got progressively worse. This could have been a franchise on par with "Star Wars", instead it went downhill immediately after the first film.

  • Helen Slater was hot in this movie but i kind of liked it even in it's director's cut. It's better than Superman 4.

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