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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nKrypto the Superdog isn\u2019t very cute in \u201cSupergirl.\u201d I understand that the way the pup was rendered for this film involved taking a real dog (who probably was very cute) and slathering CGI all over his likeness. The result is a dog whose face looks unnatural and with whom I couldn\u2019t connect during emotional scenes. You know your Super-whatever movie is in trouble when you can\u2019t make a character like Krypto loveable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Krypto\u2019s owner is more bearable, but just barely. Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl, a cousin of Superman\u2019s who was raised on a sort of Kryptonian bunker after the planet\u2019s destruction. Eventually, the bunker couldn\u2019t sustain life and Kara had to be sent alone to Earth as well, but unlike Superman, she knew a home and a family on Krypton only to have it all taken away. As a result, she doesn\u2019t take to Earth like Superman did and now mostly spends her days moping around with no friends, save for Krypto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this film, Supergirl finds herself teaming up with Ruthye (Eve Ridley), a teenager looking to avenge her family\u2019s death at the hands of space pirate Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts). Krem needs to be defeated (for the murders, for child trafficking, and for poisoning Krypto and tauntingly carrying around an antidote), but Supergirl also wants to teach Ruthye that revenge through murder will not bring her the closure she seeks. On the other hand, Krem and his crew are perfectly willing to kill Supergirl, Ruthye, and anyone else they see fit. Killing him may save the lives of others, does that make it right to kill him? The Supergirl\/Ruthye dynamic is based on \u201cTrue Grit,\u201d and grit-ting is what I had to do with my teeth every time the stiff, overly-formal-yet-too-immature Ruthye had a line in this movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On their quest, Supergirl and Ruthye cross paths with what the film thinks is a colorful gallery of otherworldly background characters. But this isn\u2019t Mos Eisley where the alien designs are so interesting that viewers will instantly wanf to know the backstory of every character in the room. They\u2019re all basically indistinguishable rubbery space-takers. The exception is space biker\/bounty hunter Lobo (Jason Momoa), who gets to steal some scenes. One of the few downsides of the DCEU folding a few years ago was losing Momoa\u2019s Aquaman, but now fans can rest easy knowing that he\u2019s landed on his feet in a more fitting role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of the larger DC Universe, it\u2019s worth mentioning that yes, Superman (David Corenswet) is in this movie. He gets one of the few gags that actually works when he tries to welcome Kara to Earth, even though he only speaks English and she only speaks Kryptonian. It\u2019s good to see that Superman is still reliable, because while I don\u2019t dislike this version of Supergirl, this movie is clearly going to bomb and she isn\u2019t going to be allowed another standalone movie anytime soon. If she, Krypto, and Lobo want to have any future in film, it\u2019ll have to be as part of a Superman or Justice League movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Choppy action, a disjointed story, a muddied moral, a bland villain, an annoying second banana in Ruthye, and an overall ugly aesthetic all conspire to make \u201cSupergirl\u201d one of the worst big-budget movies of the summer. Even Superman can\u2019t save it and saving things is his whole reason for being. But what do you expect from a movie that can\u2019t even get the beloved, iconic, usually-adorable Krypto right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: C-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSupergirl\u201d is rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence, action, language, and smoking. Its running time is 107 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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