Search - Supergirl [Director's Cut] on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1984 DVD Release: 08/08/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Director's Cut,Special Collection SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 4 hrs 22 mins Studio: Anchor Bay Members Wishing: 17 Genres: Fantasy, Superhero Film See Also: Supergirl [Widescreen], Supergirl [Widescreen Director's Cut], Supergirl

A big-budget spin-off from the series of three successful Superman movies, this film stars Helen Slater as the counterpart to the famous comic-book superhero. Supergirl is Kara, Superman's young cousin. She is sent to Earth is search of a Krypton power source, a lost ring that has been turned into a paperweight. She disguises herself as Linda Lee, a meek high-school student. Peter O'Toole is Zaltar, a mad villain who wants to use the power of the ring to take over the world. Faye Dunaway plays the evil sorceress Selena, who is also plotting to get the gem and uses her incredible powers of black magic in service of her scheme. Linda Lee meets Ethan (Hart Bochner), who is under a spell cast by Selena, which causes him to fall in love with the first person he sees. Selena had intended to use the spell to make Ethan fall in love with her, and she is furious when his affections are directed toward Supergirl. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide

Faye Dunaway - Selena
Helen Slater - Kara/Linda Lee
Peter O'Toole - Zaltar
Peter Cook - Nigel
Brenda Vaccaro - Bianca

Supergirl is a really bad movie, so it's only fitting that the special features on its 2000 DVD release from Anchor Bay are just as hard to sit through. The first failing is a common one: to get to the special chapter, audio, and sound features, viewers have to quickly press the menu key, or the opening credits will just start rolling. Within the special features, everything is in soft, 1980s comic book-style fonts and colors. The pictures are all cartoon drawings, which can be an eyesore. Trailers are offered in four different languages (good) and three TV spots are included, but the storyboards are lousy and the still set shots will seem boring and repetitious to anyone other than diehard Faye Dunaway fans or adolescent boys who can't get enough of Helen Slater in a short skirt. The talent bios are interesting, though they beg the question of why Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, and Mia Farrow felt the need to add this film to their resumes. The "Supergirl: The Making of the Movie" featurette is well-edited and is actually more entertaining than the movie. Viewers also get Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Surround options and painless, though boring, chapter selection options. This DVD has been discontinued, so it could be considered a collector's item, but where other DVDs offer a lot of neat stuff, =Supergirl on DVD just offers a lot of stuff. ~ Chris Tribbey, All Movie Guide