Faye Dunaway,
Helen Slater,
Peter O'Toole,
Peter Cook,
Brenda Vaccaro
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A big-budget spin-off from the series of three successful Superman movies, this film stars Helen Slater as the counterpart to the famous comic-book superhero. Supergirl is Kara, Superman's young cousi... read more
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Release Date: November 21, 1984
Keywords:
superhero,
faye dunaway,
christopher reeve,
helen slater,
superman iii,
Christopher Reeve ,
Faye Dunaway ,
Helen Slater ,
Argo City
DVD Release Date: August 8, 2000
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January 18, 2011Finally Supergirl gets a movie! If you love the comics and the Superman movies, you should check this movie out. Not that it's a classic or anything, actually I love it because it's so bad that it's good. Plus, I love Slater as Supergirl, she's cool.
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September 29, 2009Not great, but one star for Peter Cook, one star for Marc McClure linking the 'super' films as Jimmy and 2 stars for Helen Slater being so damn sexy in a short skirt and red boots!
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February 6, 2008Although the story isn't very good and the bad guy was lame I thought this was a decent flick.
The flying scenes were decent and the casting of Helen Slater was a good one. The problem was that the script was silly and the villain was a joke. Most of the action scenes were a li... read more -
July 14, 2007I liked her!
There were some slow depressing scenes on Krypton and in the Phantom Zone, but the superfeats on Earth were spectacular. It's all very nice. Helen Slater makes a great Supergirl. Faye Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro are great super chick baddies. The castle in the sky wa... read more -
June 14, 2007A very good spin off from the Superman films. Very similar and is a typical 80's action film with some great actors appearing in it. Worth seeing if you have missed it so far.
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December 26, 2006I hope Faye, Peter and Mia got paid a HELL of a lot of money to embarrass themselves in this ludicrous drivel...
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December 4, 2006Faye Dunaway makes a wonderfully campy villainess and Helen Slater is okay as a superheroine.
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August 30, 2006Not the best of superhero movies at all. It's not got the greatest cast in it either. So bad,it's funny to watch!
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Critic Reviews
April 17, 2007
Variety
April 17, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
This is one comic-book feature that doesn't fly. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Why even go to the trouble of making a movie that feels like it's laughing at itself? Full Review
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Miss Slater makes a four-square heroine of unrelenting sincerity; a sturdy ingenue, she is great fun to look at but hardly a live wire. Full Review
January 1, 2011
Ellen Dendy, Common Sense Media
Female superhero can't save this '80s clunker. Full Review
February 18, 2008
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
a big fat what the f-word
April 17, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Jeannot Szwarc's direction is flat and uninspired, emphasizing the jokey elements without any sense at all for the material. Full Review
January 26, 2007
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
The plain fact is that director Jeannot Szwarc turns in a movie so ludicrous and overblown that it skips right over any semblance of logic and into a self-absorbed flight of fancy. Full Review
January 1, 2007
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
Boils down to a sexist catfight between two fairly powerful women for the affections of a fashionably unshaven landscaper. Full Review
December 10, 2006
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
The tagline -- "Her first great adventure." -- is wrong in at least three ways. Full Review
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