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\"\"Supergirl<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 107 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence, action, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Craig Gillespie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ana Nogueira\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Claudia Sarne\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Rob Hardy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 26, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Milly Alcock, Mathias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, Jason Momoa, Seth Rogen (voice).<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0I went into Supergirl<\/strong> expecting a total train wreck. It looked like one in all of the trailers. A majority of the reviews I heard beforehand were negative. Still, a part of me hoped I was wrong. It happens. I thought the same about Masters of the Universe and look how that turned out. I enjoyed it very much. I steeled myself for the worst.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Are you ready for some good news? Supergirl<\/strong> isn\u2019t a total train wreck. Not totally. It has its fair share of flaws, but it\u2019s also kind of fun. You see, this is a different kind of Supergirl<\/strong>. It doesn\u2019t take the same campy approach to the material as the 1984 one with Helen Slater and Faye Dunaway. It\u2019s darker and more dystopian. It pits the titular heroine against a villain not bent on world domination. The stakes are smaller and more personal here. It\u2019s not what you\u2019d call epic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s been a lot of fuss about the casting of Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as Supergirl\/Kara Zor-El. People have been throwing shade on her. Let me address that right now. The Aussie actress is pretty good in the role. This is Supergirl as you\u2019ve never seen her before. She\u2019s a troubled girl. She\u2019s never fully gotten over having to relocate to Earth after the destruction of her home world Argo City. She still doesn\u2019t feel at home. She spends a lot of time off-world, mainly on planets with a red sun so she can feel the effects of alcohol. For a while, she has two states of being; drunk and hung over. In other words, she\u2019s a train wreck with super powers (on planets with a yellow sun). It\u2019s a different and interesting interpretation. Milly makes it work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), Supergirl<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have much in the way of plot or a villain. The story, written by Ana Nogueira, pits her against an alien baddie named Krem (Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone). He\u2019s not nice. We first meet him when he murders a family for no good reason. He leaves behind a sole survivor, youngest daughter Ruthye (Ridley), who swears revenge. She goes looking for help and finds Kara who doesn\u2019t want to get involved. That changes when Krem shows up and steals her ship after shooting her dog Krypto with a poison dart. Now it\u2019s personal John Wick-style.<\/p>\n

\u00a0She\u2019s told by a healer she has only three days to find Krem and get the antidote before it\u2019s too late. She goes after him with Ruthye in tow. This is bad for many reasons, the main one being Krem runs a trafficking ring, kidnapping young women and girls to help propagate their all-male alien race. She doesn\u2019t want to have to worry about the angry, vengeance-minded kid while trying to save her dog, but the 13YO isn\u2019t about to give up her quest. Teen girls are funny that way all throughout the universe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Speaking of Ruthye and her quest, Kara spends a lot of time trying to talk the younger girl off the ledge. She keeps explaining that revenge won\u2019t bring the relief she expects it will. It\u2019ll just leave her feeling worse. Of course, it falls on deaf ears leading up to that final moment of truth when the teen will have to make a decision that will set the course for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Along the way, the ladies bump into Lobo (Momoa, Aquaman), an alien intergalactic bounty hunter looking for one of Krem\u2019s guys. He does what he does for the money only. Justice doesn\u2019t factor into it. Eventually, he\u2019s put in a position where he has to rethink his values.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Supergirl<\/strong>, an adaptation of the \u201cWoman of Tomorrow\u201d comic book miniseries, is a throwaway entry in the new DC Universe. I wouldn\u2019t call it an origin story even though it gives us a quick synopsis of her backstory (in flashback form). I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d call it an introductory film either since we were introduced to her briefly in last year\u2019s Superman. To be honest, I don\u2019t know how to classify it. It\u2019s simply a disposable superhero movie that should tide fans over until next year\u2019s Man of Tomorrow. Yeah, that sounds about right. We\u2019ll go with that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s nothing great or earth-shattering about Supergirl<\/strong>. It\u2019s entertaining enough, but it is far from perfect. Let\u2019s start with the CGI. That\u2019s one thing that hasn\u2019t changed in the rebooted DCU. It\u2019s still plentiful and still bad. Krypto is completely CGI. That is truly disappointing. It takes the viewer out of the picture. Couldn\u2019t the makers have found a real dog for some scenes? The dark tone tends to weigh down the proceedings. The movie isn\u2019t as fun as it should be. The action scenes, loud and overedited, are fairly unoriginal. We\u2019ve seen all of it before. The villain Krem is just lame. He\u2019s just some random alien scumbag.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Then there\u2019s the whole feminist thing. Supergirl<\/strong> handles it in the most shallow, superficial way possible. Whereas 2017\u2019s Wonder Woman got audiences talking about it as it relates to the superhero genre, it\u2019s of little to no importance here aside from one conversation about why Supergirl isn\u2019t called Superwoman. After all, her cousin is called SuperMAN, right?<\/p>\n

\u00a0At the same time, Supergirl<\/strong> has a shaggy, silly appeal. It\u2019s a mix of True Grit, John Wick, Mad Max: Fury Road and Guardians of the Galaxy. It has a strong, flawed heroine trying to find her place in the universe while fighting the forces of no-good. And boy, can she ever fight! It definitely has value as entertainment, but it never fully steps up as a kick-ass superhero movie. It\u2019s a good matinee picture, but that\u2019s about it.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supergirl (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 107 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (sequences of strong violence, action, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Craig Gillespie\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ana Nogueira\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Claudia Sarne\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Rob Hardy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 26, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Milly Alcock, Mathias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, Jason Momoa, Seth Rogen (voice). Rating: ** \u00bd \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-playing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Supergirl-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C775&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14675,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions\/14675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}