DVD : Supergirl (Limited Edition)

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Rating:

- Where's the Beef?
Please be careful when buying this DVD. I bought a copy...which said it was the Special Edition. But when I got it home and opened it, it had only one disk and was the short version. It had no special features, only scene selection...

Rating:

- Super Fantastic!
I loved this movie when it came out and I didn't even get to see the full version!

It took me three days to watch all the extra's on this DVD. This is a collectors must! Fromt he original scored pieces, to deleted scene, to the production notes. The detail and technical information on how the flying rigs were done and set up and the very unique - at the time - special effects were achieved were incredible!

It has the American relaease and the Foreign release. I must say when I saw the Foreign release - the movie became 10 times better.

The directors commentary is very intering and informative. Stories of the Studio and even Christopher Reeve being involved as Superman int he film. Listening to Fay Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro discussing their scenes was histerical.

Extremely entertaining a must for ever Super Hero Collector.

Rating:

- Not as unwatchable as you may think.
You've got to be a bit crazy if you were to think that Supergirl is one of the greatest movies of all times, but in my opinion, it is still worth putting your money out to get the Director's Edition, which tells the complete story.

Someone had brought up how Kara knew so much of Earth when she first got there, well it seems her uncle (?) Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) was observing Earth from the city for quite a while, so it is only logical that as she hung around him, she too would learn of Earth, and of Clark Kent.

As to her "magically" changing, well, I guess for time consideration, and it was a trick used in the other Superman movies that worked, so why not here?

I must admit that the absence of Christopher Reeve as Superman in the movie is what bothered me, and I bet that the movie would have been made differently of Chris were available to appear. In the early comics, Superman was very much her mentor, guiding and shaping her into what she had become, but in this the absence of Superman made for a different story. [BTW: His absence is explained as him being on some mission on an alien planet.]

Looks wise, they did pick the right girl to play her, Helen Slater is an extremely attractive woman, and did make that costume look quite nice on her and handled the flying sequences quite wonderfully.

If you watch the Director's cut, the movie is watchable, don't forget the American Version was only around 92 minutes long; and the Director's cut was 138 minutes long hey, we're talking about over 45 minutes -- almost one forth of the movie! So, if all you've seen was the American Version (which is usually what is shown on television), you haven't seen the whole story.

Rating:

- JUST SUPER, GIRL!
First Supergirl picture is still the best, with superior special effects and stylish direction by the great Jeannot Szwarc. A major influence on such later action hits as "The Golden Child" and the original "Terminator."

Rating:

- Supergirl Special Edition DVD - Worth it ?
It had been a long time since I sat down to watch this movie and after reading reviews of it, I had my doubts about whether it would be of interest all these years later.

Helen Slater was perfect for the title role - a real beauty who looks pretty darn good in that super-costume, but she wasn't given anything of interest to do, except fawn over a cute (but incredibly dim) 80's style hunk.

Poor Faye Dunaway tried her best but I kept expecting her to start screaming about wire hangers a la Mommie Dearest. I'm sorry but having Joan Crawford plotting world domination left me a little cold !

The special visual effects were (in my opinion) not that bad for the time, but there were not enough of them.... I guess they were very costly to produce, and therefore were given a limited screen presence.

But did I enjoy it....? Surprisingly enough yes I did ! As long as you watch this movie in the right context, and ensure that your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, you'll have some fun with this. The 2 disc set offers the International Version and a longer Directors Cut. I have not had the desire to sit through the 'longer' version just yet but it will be interesting to see what elements of the movie were removed prior to it's original release. I gather from other reviews that it probably won't enhance the experience too much but it's always interesting to see a movie in a different format - Just so that the viewer can make his/her own mind up.

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