Genre: Action/Fantasy
Premise: Supergirl/Kara Zor-El lives in a lonely place on Krypton called Agro City, a wizard allows her to see an all powerful item known as the Omegahedron. Kara follows this tool to Earth, to save her city which will die without it. A witch gains the Omegahedron to perform evil spells. Supergirl arrives on Earth and discovers her Superman like powers, enrolling in an all girl school. The evil witch uses the Omegahedronto make a boy her slave, until Supergirl stops it. Supergirl battles the Witch until she is placed in an"eternal void" and stripped of her powers. She is helped by the wizard, who helps her defeat the witch.The slave admits his love for Supergirl. Eventually, Supergirl goes back and restores her city to power.
About: Coming at the close of the Superman franchise, this was an attempt to get females hooked on the comic book blockbuster. (Sadly for some reason there haven't been many terrific female empowered comic book adaptations). Sadly, this film was to fail also. Looks like Oddell was hired due to his work on other fantasy female films (which would believe it or not, include The Dark Crystal).
Writer: David Oddell (who is actually a Muppet writer with Dark Crystal and Muppet Show credits, he alsowrote the cheese fest Masters of the Universe and Running Scared).
This is a terrible film. It even seems to treat itself as ridiculous. (And because this isn't as enchanting or memorable as The Dark Crystal, we have a hard enough time as it is seriously investing in something called an "Eternal Void"). The separating point between an inaccessible film and a bad comic book adaptation is Supergirl's arrival on Earth. This whole thing is unfunny, and worse unexciting. And it falls flat on its face with all of its corny jokes. It all feels like it's just a big 80's goof even on the written page. And that's a shame because I worry that this script's failure tainted the market's idea of the Super Heroine film for nearly a decade to come.
We don't go to Super Hero films to laugh at Super Hero's (at least not these Super Heros, there's a whole other genre and series of films for these types of tales). Super Girl should give the audience the chance to aspire to almost a childhood innocence, which is really one of the main driving points behind all super heros. If the writer had intended to make nothing more than a comedy, why not just use a generic Super Heroine and a DC Licensed character whose rights most likely cost a significant amount of money.
Scooby Doo (Complete Crap)
[X] Atilla (Poor, Few Redeeming Qualities)
Wedding Crashers (Mediocre)
Hot Rod (Good)
Definitely Maybe (Pretty Darn Good)
Isla Roles: Nope. Not going to even picture it.
Tip: A story is only as serious as you take the material. And, even with great comedies (which this wasn't supposed to be) the whole material is cheapened because the writer didn't take the source material honestly enough. (Additionally, this is funny because I'd also make a similar critique of Masters of Universe which shares the same screenwriter).
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