SUPER DULL

9 July 2026

Without doing any research, I thought that taking a 14 year old to see Supergirl would be a “good thing” during the school holidays. She thought it was 7/10 whereas I was closer to 3/10. All that potential of A feisty female hero gone to waste.

Milly Alcock, a young Australian actor, did the best she could but Craig Gillespie, an Australian director, didn’t serve her well. Or was the problem the script writer or the editor because neither of those aspects of the film were good either.

The show starts with a hungover 23 year old Kara (aka Supergirl) on a week long pub crawl through the universe. Along the way she meets lots of aliens (who all look as if they've come off a Star Wars set), even more baddies (mostly blokes covered in metal studs) and they all spend most of the time in really badly shot CGI fight scenes (that look like offcuts from Mad Max films). On the surface, her tasks are to save a young girl from becoming a revenge murderer and find an antidote for her own poisoned dog. But the underlying story line is more depressing – free a cage full of young girls who’ve been captured to be trophy concubines for the baddies. All looking sad and pathetic and wearing beige sackcloth. Not much of a feminist story there – although I have to admit that there were a few nasty female pirates.

I now have to feel guilty about taking a teenager to a badly made film with an unclear message about female emancipation.