Supergirl

Yes, Supergirl had a movie!

Continuing with the comic book story meets  the big screen failed series, we travel in our DeLorean time machine from 1966 to 1984 to meet our way with the one and only heroine flick that had a fair popular response from worldwide audiences looking forward to meet a real supergirl hitting the theaters. Back in the 70's DC Comics had a huge success portraying Wonder Woman's adventures in the T.V. format for about four years, and they had a real Wonder woman playing the lead role: Linda Carter, Miss America, certainly an astonishing godess. However, Wonder Woman faded into obscurity and never made its way into the big screen, but you just knew the DC guys would never quit.

70's superhero movies were quite unsuccesful withe Superman being the only exception, the next natural step to follow was to take Kal El's cousin into a big screen debut that would profit for some more movie adventures. Guess what?  it failed! so the Supergirl movie was a one time adventure, that wasn't that bad, it just didn't have what it took the Superman movies to convice random audiences. 

Kara & her uncle.

Linda Lee.

Supergirl!

1984 was the year of the red S, although Superman III wasn't as good as the first two movies, it had Christopher Reeves in the lead role, and believe me that guy did have something special. a Shame we don't have him around anymore. So, the DC guys sort of decided to look for the female hero du jour: Supergirl. Wonder Woman had her chance back in the 70's and it was time to introduce us to another great comic book character. What the hell Mr. Spam-Alternative? does this movie have something to do with the exploitation genre you yourself call a genre connoisseur? Calm down purist reader! Do I need to remind you of the exploitation of the female comic book characters sex appeal? come on! check any female comic book character and you'll find wearing little or no clothes at all! it is totally exploitation related!

Helen Slater was definitely born to wear the tight Supergirl's suit, she had everything the comic book character had: Blonde hair, blue eyes, innocent look and hell yeah, a supergirl's super hot body, which makes me wonder "when will we ever get to see nude scenes of our favorite heroines?" what are you waiting for movie makers!!! we're grown enough!!

I know, i'm kind of missing my point here, so let's get down to business. Supergirl was filmed in 1984 and was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. The characters, storyline and plot in general are loosely based in the original comic book story, just like any other comic book movie anyways. 

We always find mean characters.

Witch!

Up, Up and Away!

So, the story has it that little Kara Zor-El happens to be the surviving cousin of Kal-El AKA Superman. She and her family managed to escape from the big explosion that destroyed their home planet Krypton. They all built a new place to live, a space city known as Argo. the magic stone that runs the city and keeps it working is a wonderful toy built by Kara's uncle: the Omegahedron. On a random day Kara plays with it and loses it, putting her entire family and Argo city inhabitants in complete danger. To take responsiblity, she decides to go looking for the Omegahedron in a space ship, smartly designed to follow the omegahedron signal wherever it goes in the universe. Obviously the Omegahedron goes straight into our lovely planet earth, and so begins the legend of Supergirl.

Once her feet land on our lovely planet she finds herself playing the role of a dumb student by the alias of Linda Lee, Clark Kent's cousin (she uses his name to sort of fit in as a qualified student) After that action truly begins. Linda Lee falls in love and Supergirl has to save to day from a wicked witch who has found her way to use the Omegahedron powers for her evil deeds.

Superlegs.

All Heroine.

Helen Slater nude, a real supergirl.

Overall, a great movie, it does pay homage to the female genre in all its aspects: Being smart, being sexy, but not porn like ,being brave, and just being a real woman (yes I love women) The special effects are way better than the ones we see in the Superman movies, the soundtrack is quite ok for this kind of movies and yep, the main character is a real supergirl.

Who's meant to watch this flick? open minded comic book lovers, blonde lovers, action films lovers, basically everyone around.

Here's the cool movie trailer: