“Supergirl” DVD Review
There are a handful of superhero movies I never want to watch again in my lifetime. The first on that list was Batman & Robin, which is a given. A year or so ago, The Punisher, Superman III and Superman IV joined the list. Now, in less than ten minutes into the film, Supergirl has joined the ranks of…rank. Some films I never went near simply from word of mouth. With the onslaught of Superman DVDs that came out this past year (and more recently, November 28th), it wasn’t hard to see that Supergirl would get another DVD release (although the 2-disc Anchor Bay release from 2000 appears to easily eclipse this DVD in terms of extra content), though I really wish it didn’t. The film starts out sensibly enough, but once Supergirl gets to Earth everything goes downhill. How she knows so much about Earth immediately (and yet later asks what a “train” is), that her cousin, Clark Kent is Superman on Earth, how to work a type writer