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...mood of Supergirl seems almost pastoral compared with that of The Terminator. This picture barrels with swank relentlessness through a giddily complicated premise and into an Armageddon face-off between another New Woman and a Man of Iron. The man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is really a machine: sturdier than a tall building, able to break supporting players in his bare hands, shooting middle-aged " ladies on sight, speaking 2 whole sentences only when absolutely necessary...
...Schwarzenegger, he nicely fleshes out the convention of a soulless gun for hire. With his choppy hair, cryptic shades and state-of-the-'80s leather ensemble, he looks like the Incredible Hulk gone punk. Some day he and Supergirl should get together in a winner-take-all hybrid sequel. These two could make beautiful music together-say, America the Beautiful rendered in teeny-bopper heavy metal...
WHEN SUPERMAN is out of the Galaxy, Indiana Jones in the classroom, and Ghost busters working on their next movie, who va gonna call for some superior supernaturally super heroic cinematic relief? Unfortunately, not Supergirl...
Fortunately, comics were spinning off characters long before T.V. and movies, and Supergirl, who actually dates back to the 1950s, must have seemed like the perfect candidate for celluloid incarnation. Reeve, who has elsewhere proven that he can act as easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure...
...David Odell's "Supergirl" script keeps the comic at the cost of coherence. The plot has holes large enough to fit the planet of Krypton through, even before it blew up into tiny bits of Kryptonite...