It’s not the movie’s star, Milly Alcock, as Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El, A.K.A. Supergirl, who’s the problem. As the movie opens, Kara is having a boozy existential crisis. Her parents (played in flashback sequences by David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham, with more tenderness than this enterprise demands) are dead: as their home planet of Krypton was being destroyed, they’d decamped to a floating colony known as Argo City, hoping to raise little Kara in safety. But survival there was impossible; like her cousin Kal-El, or Superman, before her, Kara was placed in a pod and catapulted to Earth for her safety, along with her scampish dog, Krypto. But her adjustment to her new planet has been hard; the superpowers our yellow sun bestows upon her proved to be a burden. So she’s parked herself, her dog, and her ramshackle traveling trailer on the planet Holzherr where, because she has no superpowers, she's free to enjoy the effects of alcohol and party herself into a stupor. She’s drinking to forget. Soon, we’ll know exactly how she feels.
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Is the basic idea of sex slavery perhaps just a little too grim a plot point for a PG-13-rated fantasy? Maybe. But even if you can overlook that, Supergirl, directed by Craig Gillespie, has so little to offer. Kara’s adventures take her to several planets, each with a different colored sun. So why are all of them rendered in variations of murky brown? The action sequences are jerky and disjointed; Supergirl’s laser eyes constitute the only occasional, if inadequate, jolt of life. The gags are both belabored and feeble. Occasionally, Kara will utter some kind of pithy truism: “He sees the good in everyone, and I see the truth,” she observes solemnly, in reference to her goofy-gallant superhero cousin. But she clearly can’t see the truth of the dull, dismal movie around her.
But other actors in Supergirl suffer an even worse fate. What’s a terrific actor like Schoenaerts doing in a piece of junk like this? As the baddie Krem, he’s almost unrecognizable: His sensitive, chiseled face is dotted with silvery piercings; his hairdo is basically a shaved head adorned with an anemic ponytail. The role requires basically one expression, a mechanized scowl. If you’ve seen Schoenaerts in movies like Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone or Laure de Clermont-Tonnere’s The Mustang, you’ll know he has so much more to offer. Every actor needs a paycheck. But it’s still dispiriting to think that a performer like Schoenaerts can’t be put to better use, even in a throwaway superhero movie. Welcome to the new Hollywood, or what passes for it. It’s the coldest planet of all.
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