Is Supergirl Actually Bad

[00:01] It's It's not good, but it's not as bad

[00:05] as like the ginormous super stinkers

[00:08] we've seen DCU fart out in the past. I

[00:11] will say it is a big step back from

[00:14] Superman, which I enjoyed. This feels

[00:16] like a remnant of old superhero films

[00:18] where it's just a CGI schmorggishborg at

[00:22] times some wonky CGI with a very generic

[00:25] standard plot and a very forgettable

[00:28] villain whom I know by the time credits

[00:31] role you'll forget the name of. I

[00:33] didn't. Crim, that's his name. I said it

[00:37] with confidence. Chin held high, but

[00:39] then I wasn't exactly sure. So, I double

[00:41] checked. I was right. It is Crim of the

[00:43] Yellow Hills. So rejoice Crim fan. Well,

[00:47] not a whole lot to rejoice about if you

[00:49] do like the comic book counterpart of

[00:51] Crim. Cuz in here, he [ __ ] sucks,

[00:54] man. He I also think he has less than 20

[00:57] words to say. Pretty much every time

[00:59] he's on screen, he's doing two things.

[01:01] One of two things. Eating food like

[01:04] eating cereal out of a bowl or drinking

[01:06] some alien titty milk. Or he's doing

[01:09] this,

[01:11] hitting the blue steel. and he walks

[01:14] around kind of like Jack Sparrow

[01:15] sometimes. I don't know. He's really

[01:17] lame. He's a very lame villain. But

[01:19] overall, the movie is not great by any

[01:21] means, but I certainly wouldn't put it

[01:23] side by side with some of DCU's worst,

[01:26] which I know isn't really a compliment.

[01:28] I don't think it's that bad, but it's

[01:30] definitely

[01:32] a misstep here in the new DCU launch. So

[01:35] anyway, this film follows Supergirl Cara

[01:38] as she is still on her, you know, crash

[01:43] out arc where she's drinking herself

[01:45] into oblivion. She prefers to stay on

[01:48] red sun planets that way she's normal

[01:50] and can feel pain and bleed and get

[01:54] wasted and drunk and that kind of thing.

[01:56] She's a mess because she's gone through

[01:59] so much in her life that's made her lose

[02:02] faith in people and kind of just lose

[02:05] the will to, you know, be the person

[02:08] that her family expected her to be. As

[02:11] well as Clark, the expectations Superman

[02:15] has of her. She doesn't have any

[02:16] interest in living up to that. She just

[02:18] wants to drink and pass out and that's

[02:21] it. And then Crim gets introduced after

[02:25] he kills a family for their swords.

[02:28] There was a little girl who survived the

[02:30] massacre and now she's out for revenge.

[02:32] And she happens to run into Cara at a

[02:34] bar where she was dancing around. Then

[02:37] she tries to recruit her to help avenge

[02:39] her family and kill Crim, which she has

[02:42] no interest in helping this little girl.

[02:44] But then Crim steals her ship and shoots

[02:46] Krypto with a poison dart. Now she has

[02:48] three days before Krypto dies. Thus, she

[02:50] has to go get the antidote that he wears

[02:52] around his neck with his necklace. So,

[02:56] they team up and they go try and track

[02:58] him down and get that antidote. Super

[03:00] simple. We've seen it done a million

[03:02] times. Not trying to reinvent the wheel,

[03:04] which I think is fine, but I don't think

[03:06] it executes it that well. I do think

[03:09] Supergirl being so different from

[03:10] Superman is a positive thing, though.

[03:12] Her being like the exact opposite of

[03:14] Clark, I think, is great, and it's a

[03:16] good thing to explore. This movie does

[03:19] not explore it very well. But I will be

[03:22] honest here, sports fans. I think Millie

[03:24] Alcock can be a good Supergirl. The

[03:26] script here was just complete

[03:28] irredeemable ass. And there was no

[03:30] saving that. But I do think Millie

[03:32] Alcock can play this character well if

[03:35] there are some better writers around it

[03:37] for sure. And another thing that really

[03:39] shoots this film in the foot is how

[03:41] desperately it wants to be Guardians of

[03:43] the Galaxy. It feels like they plugged

[03:46] James Gun's formula into chat GPT and

[03:49] asked it to try and emulate it the best

[03:50] they could. And that's how a lot of

[03:53] Supergirl plays out on screen. It tries

[03:56] so hard to hamfist boner jams into so

[04:00] many sequences to elevate it and it it

[04:03] just fumbles. Especially one action

[04:06] scene in particular set to a awful cover

[04:10] of Jimmy Eat World. the middle. It I

[04:14] can't even describe to you how out of

[04:16] place that felt. Like the action in the

[04:18] movie is pretty solid and there's a lot

[04:20] of it which I appreciate. So, a big

[04:22] compliment I can give to the film is

[04:23] that it's not boring in terms of like

[04:26] what you're seeing on screen. It's

[04:27] boring in terms of narrative and how

[04:29] predictable it is and been there, done

[04:32] that. But at least there's quite a bit

[04:33] of action and the visuals for the most

[04:35] part are solid. Albeit there are couple

[04:38] instances where it falls apart in that

[04:40] department. But overall, it was fine

[04:42] there. But they keep ruining some action

[04:46] moments by trying to be James Gun. Like

[04:52] I'm trying to avoid like a ton of

[04:53] spoilers, but I don't even really know

[04:55] why. So, we're going to get into some

[04:56] spoilers. Now, it is established very

[04:58] early on how Cara doesn't view Earth as

[05:02] her home. She feels very out of place

[05:05] there. So, why the [ __ ] would she be

[05:07] playing Earth music? That doesn't make

[05:09] sense. It makes sense for Star-Lord for

[05:12] obvious reasons, but why why would she

[05:14] want all of these Earth tunes to be

[05:17] surrounded by at all times? And when

[05:20] they're shooting these sequences set to

[05:22] this music, it just doesn't hit at all.

[05:25] It feels so out of place and it feels

[05:28] like it's only there to remind you of

[05:30] like, remember when James Gun did it?

[05:32] We're doing it, too.

[05:34] It just felt very cringe, unfortunately.

[05:38] Now, one thing I do think that they did

[05:39] a good job with though is Lobo. Now, I

[05:42] know Jason Mamoa has been a fan cast for

[05:44] Lobo for a long time. I was genuinely

[05:46] impressed with how well he played that

[05:48] character. I like Lobo a lot. I've

[05:51] talked about him a lot on stream, and I

[05:53] actually think he's very good in this

[05:54] film for how little he appears in it.

[05:56] He's not like a big character by any

[05:58] means, but he is a reoccurring

[05:59] character, and every time he's on

[06:00] screen, it is a treat. I think the lines

[06:02] that get him kind of suck major ass, but

[06:05] at the very least, he is great in the

[06:08] action sequences. Taking the chopper for

[06:10] a spin, blowing [ __ ] up. He's got his

[06:13] hook and he like pudge from Dota 2,

[06:15] yanks him back and [ __ ] for his target.

[06:18] Like, he was very good. But the same

[06:21] can't be said about how they use

[06:23] Supergirl and her abilities here. They

[06:27] perpetually nerf her. She nerfs herself

[06:29] obviously by going to red sun planets

[06:31] and drinking. But from then on when

[06:35] she's actually on the mission to save

[06:37] Krypto and you know get the antidote

[06:40] from Crim, the amount of things they had

[06:43] to figure out in order to like diminish

[06:46] her abilities is just almost laughable.

[06:49] So she gets poisoned with a drink while

[06:52] she's, you know, looking for Crim. So

[06:55] then when Crim shows up, they're kind of

[06:56] on equal footing to a certain extent

[06:58] because now she's all wobbly and

[06:59] poisoned and trying to chug milk to coat

[07:01] her stomach. And then they even have the

[07:04] final battle take place on a planet that

[07:07] has a green sun and a yellow sun. So

[07:12] when the green sun's out, she's on

[07:14] death's door withering away and then the

[07:18] yellow sun comes out and she's powered

[07:19] up again. So, she spends the vast

[07:21] majority of this film in a depowered

[07:23] nerf state, which I just think is

[07:25] underwhelming. And it doesn't make it

[07:26] seem like Crim's all that powerful

[07:28] because he's able to survive endure some

[07:32] of Supergirl's attacks. Although, she

[07:34] never really fights him until the end.

[07:36] It's just a couple of like a little bit

[07:38] of slap boxing to to a lesser degree.

[07:41] So, he never really feels scary or like

[07:44] a big bad. Like, yeah, he's very

[07:46] unlikable. He's an easily hatable

[07:48] character. you know, he killed an

[07:49] innocent family. He shot a dog. He's

[07:51] kidnapping little girls to make them

[07:53] brides. He's a very bad guy, but he

[07:56] never seems like a really strong villain

[07:58] that's on equal footing with Supergirl

[08:00] or anything. And there's even a sequence

[08:02] where while she's poisoned and stumbling

[08:05] around, she starts to get her strength

[08:06] back. So, she fights some of the guys.

[08:08] And then Crim escapes and is about to

[08:12] kill one of the children. And Ruthie,

[08:15] the girl that's been accompanying uh

[08:18] Supergirl on this journey, is flanking

[08:20] him with her sword about to kill him.

[08:23] And then Supergirl takes her away

[08:24] saying, "No, you can't do that. Revenge

[08:26] is bad. It's going to [ __ ] you up. This

[08:27] isn't going to bring them back." And

[08:28] then he instantly goes and kills that

[08:30] girl and kills her parents. And

[08:32] Supergirl gets there after it happens.

[08:35] Ruthie makes a really good point saying,

[08:36] "If you would let me kill him, they

[08:37] would still be alive. Your decision has

[08:39] literally cost them their lives." And

[08:41] she's right. But Supergirl still takes

[08:42] this moral high ground even though

[08:44] throughout the entire film she's just

[08:45] been an [ __ ] about everything. Oh, I

[08:46] see the truth in people this and that.

[08:48] And now all of a sudden she's taking

[08:48] this moral high ground to prevent her

[08:50] from killing this man for revenge. But

[08:52] Ruthie's right. Had she killed him, it

[08:54] would have saved those innocent lives

[08:56] again. So I agree that blood's on

[08:58] Supergirl's shoulders there. Like that's

[09:00] on her hands. And it feels like it

[09:02] wasn't like a gradual buildup or

[09:04] anything. Like she says, you know,

[09:05] revenge isn't really that good, but

[09:06] she's been jaded throughout the entire

[09:08] movie. She's been, you know, very

[09:10] clearly down in the dumps about

[09:12] everything going on and she has no

[09:15] desire to be like a hero or anything

[09:17] moral like that. But now all of a sudden

[09:18] she takes her away. No, don't do

[09:20] revenge. Let these innocent people die

[09:22] instead and then lectures her about it.

[09:25] It felt so odd and like it just came out

[09:28] of nowhere really. It didn't feel it

[09:30] didn't feel like it built up to that.

[09:32] And it certainly didn't help that there

[09:34] were immediate repercussions for it.

[09:36] Also, it also seems like Supergirl kept

[09:38] forgetting how her powers work. She can

[09:40] see through walls. Like, there should

[09:41] never be a time where Supergirl can't

[09:43] find Crim or what she's looking for in

[09:47] any of these situations. She can see

[09:49] through walls. And she uses it like two

[09:52] times in this movie. So, why doesn't she

[09:54] use it at the most important moments?

[09:56] It's just the only way a lot of things

[09:58] happen in this film is by her being

[10:00] constantly nerfed or just forgetting,

[10:02] whoopsie, I have these powers that could

[10:04] pretty much solve this right away. But

[10:06] anyway, I'm not going to keep yapping

[10:08] about it. It just wasn't very good. I

[10:10] don't think it's, you know, down there

[10:12] with bottom three of DCU or anything

[10:15] like that, but this definitely isn't

[10:18] where you want to go right after

[10:19] Superman. This is a a step backwards for

[10:22] sure. Anyway, that's really about it.

[10:24] See?