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Summary: MUCH ADO
Review: I can't believe how much time and effort was put into this special edition! This is how all DVD's should be--good or bad movie! Unfortunately, I can't give 5 stars because, well, at the heart of it all is a bad movie.
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Summary: Has Everyone Gone Mad
Review: How can anyone think this movie is good?? You can see the wires she is using from 10 miles away, they don't bother to tell you anything about her homeworld except that they are in inner space, which of course means they live under water (Huh??). Can someone tell me how she knew her cousins' name was Clark Kent?? Did Superman send the family notes or something?? This second rate witch (played appalling by Faye Dunaway) get her hands on a power source that will let her do anything and she has to use a truck to get some gardener? And why was she so desperate to get this guy to fall in love with her in the first place?? All these questions add up to one God awful movie. I have no idea how anyone could read this script and think any good could come out of it. The story is silly, the acting is probably the worst I have seen since porno, the effects make me long for Ed Wood. The fact that they made a 2 disc set for this film and other, more worthy films don't get that kind of treatment makes me believe that satan does run Hollywood.
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Summary: ah-- features what features?
Review: ahh i don't mean to complain , but i bought this disc with the hope it would be good but i was fooled. picture is great sound needs work. but i'll probably get the updated deluxe one . nice try though . the problem with it is it says there's extra features but all it plays is the film no features is included, miss advertising if you ask me.
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: Please be careful when buying this DVD. I bought a copy...which said it was the Special Edition. But when I got it home and opened it, it had only one disk and was the short version. It had no special features, only scene selection...
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Summary: Super Fantastic!
Review: I loved this movie when it came out and I didn't even get to see the full version!It took me three days to watch all the extra's on this DVD. This is a collectors must! Fromt he original scored pieces, to deleted scene, to the production notes. The detail and technical information on how the flying rigs were done and set up and the very unique - at the time - special effects were achieved were incredible! It has the American relaease and the Foreign release. I must say when I saw the Foreign release - the movie became 10 times better. The directors commentary is very intering and informative. Stories of the Studio and even Christopher Reeve being involved as Superman int he film. Listening to Fay Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro discussing their scenes was histerical. Extremely entertaining a must for ever Super Hero Collector.
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Summary: It's a bird...It's a plane...It's a stupid movie!
Review: Helen Slater (probably best known for her role in THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN) stars as Kara, who lives on a world called Argo in inner-space. She is Superman's cousin, who comes to earth in an effort to retrieve a special sphere that protects her world and people.
But the story never explains how she survived Krypton's fate or how she knows her cousin survived or how her power to walk into the woods and come out looking like a local school girl. A poor move to assume everyone knows the back-story.
The movie gets two stars because it is good for many laughs for its stupidity. With all their super powers, why didn't Superman and Supergirl prevent this movie from being made? Oh darn, they aren't real.
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Summary: Not as unwatchable as you may think.
Review: You've got to be a bit crazy if you were to think that Supergirl is one of the greatest movies of all times, but in my opinion, it is still worth putting your money out to get the Director's Edition, which tells the complete story. Someone had brought up how Kara knew so much of Earth when she first got there, well it seems her uncle (?) Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) was observing Earth from the city for quite a while, so it is only logical that as she hung around him, she too would learn of Earth, and of Clark Kent. As to her "magically" changing, well, I guess for time consideration, and it was a trick used in the other Superman movies that worked, so why not here? I must admit that the absence of Christopher Reeve as Superman in the movie is what bothered me, and I bet that the movie would have been made differently of Chris were available to appear. In the early comics, Superman was very much her mentor, guiding and shaping her into what she had become, but in this the absence of Superman made for a different story. [BTW: His absence is explained as him being on some mission on an alien planet.] Looks wise, they did pick the right girl to play her, Helen Slater is an extremely attractive woman, and did make that costume look quite nice on her and handled the flying sequences quite wonderfully. If you watch the Director's cut, the movie is watchable, don't forget the American Version was only around 92 minutes long; and the Director's cut was 138 minutes long hey, we're talking about over 45 minutes -- almost one forth of the movie! So, if all you've seen was the American Version (which is usually what is shown on television), you haven't seen the whole story.
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Summary: It's horrible...ey entertaining!!!
Review: I was flipping around and miraculously managed to catch the opening credits of this "film" on TBS. I was mesmerized by the shiny 80s-looking colors and music that was tad bit *too* much like the Superman music to be safe. I soon realized what it was, joyfully. I'd been wanting to see it but I couldn't find it at my local rental store. No offense to the filmmakers or anything, but the movie is just generally badly made. As another reviewer person said, the direction and script were very much lacking. The plot has gigantic loopholes and I can't shake this feeling that while I did watch the movie from the beginning, I missed something. The whole thing with the vortex and the magically appearing on earth in the uniform and the Superman thing totally whacked out any sense of plot-related logic. Also, there is some incredibly immature humour reminiscent of the Superman movies. Despite, or rather because, of all this: I love this movie. I think I was laughing throughout the entire thing. No, not in a contemptious manner: a celebratory one. I felt like dancing in the sheer beautiful campiness of Supergirl. It's an underrated classic. I love the whole Superhero thing they got going, the filmmakers at least succeeded in translating the sort of epic superhero battle style that one can't quite capture in comic books. In short, if you like camp, superheroes, Helen Slater, 80s headbands or are just bored, I reccomend this movie.
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Summary: And I thought Superman III was bad.
Review: This was quite litterally one of the more bizzare films ever made. Helen Slater is dreadful in the role. Faye Dunaway isn't much better. This is not even remotely connected with the Superman movies, except it was made by the Salkinds, the very ones who killed off any chance the Superman movies had for further success, and after seeing this movie, you will not feel sorry that in the comics, Supergirl was killed off in the 12 part "Crises on Infinite Earths" saga.
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Summary: A Guilty Pleasure
Review: I saw Supergirl during its original theatrical release way back in 1984 and eighteen years and hundreds of movies later it is still one of my favorites. I bought the DVD a few days ago and have been really impressed at how Anchor Bay has taken what was really a forgotten movie and made one of the best discs I've gotten recently. Seeing Helen Slater flying (under rated special-effects) to Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic musical score in widescreen has been one of the highlights of my week. Plus, my five year old son, who is more critical of movies than I have ever been, gave it his approval. Welcome back, Supergirl, I've missed you.
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