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House of the Dragon alumna Milly Alcock made her debut as the "Maid of Steel" in a brief cameo at the end of last year’s Superman reboot, drunkenly reclaiming her caped superdog, Krypto, before staggering off stage right.
Coming across like a mardy millennial instead of a distaff version of her do-gooding cousin, Kara Zor-El is still in a booze-fuelled stupor and mooching about with Krypto on alien planets when we catch up with her in this underpowered second film of the nascent DC movie franchise now stewarded by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn.
However, the ability to get sozzled on her intergalactic pub crawl is only effective on worlds without the yellow sun that provides her superpowers, so when she gets roughed up while reluctantly protecting orphaned alien girl Ruthye (Eve Ridley, in her feature debut), she’s not best pleased.
Nor is she keen to be involved with Ruthye’s desire for revenge against ferocious brigands led by the vicious Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts, taking facial pin-studs a tad too far).
Unfortunately for Kara, her superheroic inertia comes back to bite her when her canine buddy is poisoned, leaving her with only days to retrieve the cure while tolerating a plucky sidekick she doesn’t want.
Scattered flashbacks to Kara growing up with her parents (played by David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham) after surviving the destruction of Krypton on the domed city of Argo, her arrival on Earth and first meeting with Superman, and dislike of Metropolis life go some way to explaining the grouchiness.
However, it’s the race-against-time mission to catch up with Krem (and the antidote) that soon drags Kara and Ruthye into dark corners of the DC Universe where space pirates and extraterrestrial lowlifes run riot. Plenty of work for the prosthetics department, here!
It’s then the couple cross paths with murderous bounty hunter Lobo. An immortal, indestructible and thoroughly amoral creature, the character’s comic-book popularity in the 1990s put him on a par with such Marvel antiheroes as Wolverine and Deadpool.
First played by MobLand’s Emmett J Scanlan in the 2018 Krypton TV series, here it’s Jason Momoa debuting the character on the big screen. Already a stalwart of DC movies thanks to his role as Aquaman in the now-defunct DC Extended Universe franchise, Momoa certainly gets his teeth into his bad-boy-biker role by delivering bone-crushing mayhem and sardonic one-liners.
Unfortunately, with the villains all looking like escapees from recent Mad Max films, Lobo just doesn’t have that hoped-for impact, especially with Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies setting such a high standard for fun, out-of-this world adventures and bizarre but likeable characters.
On the other hand, Alcock does a decent job playing a Supergirl a million miles away from Helen Slater’s 1984 iteration or Melissa Benoist in the long-running TV show. All grunge aesthetic and attitude, she rises above the underwhelming script and direction.
Indeed, her journey towards regaining her mojo (and her iconic costume) is suitably rousing, although it’s the few scenes exploring her awkward relationship with David Corenswet’s Superman that promises more in terms of emotion and humour. "Why is he in his underwear?", she says on their first meeting.
Hopefully next year’s Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow directed by Gunn and with Alcock in the cast will be able to see her fly higher.
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