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MOVIE REVIEWSupergirlThis film got a lot of bad press (mostly, as far as we can tell, over the lead actress's attempt to emulate the career choices of Brie Larson), and was poorly received, but you never know, so we had to see for ourselves. Woke? Yes. Lots of snide digs at masculinist society, and girls beating up guys who are Muuch bigger than they are (sometimes by the roomful). But all of that is really no sillier than any of the other scfi elements. And, contrary to mantra, we have seen woke media that was entertaining. For example, of you ignore Brie Larson's offscreen nonsense, "Captain Marvel" was actually mostly a pretty good story: An amnesiac soldier discovers that she is serving a fascist theocracy, and then has to decide what to do with her life. ExpositionIf you don't know the canon, Supergirl ("Kara") is the cousin of Superman, who was also sent to Earth from the dying planet Krypton. In this version, she is not adjusting well, and goes off in an insterstellar Winnabego, to slum around the planets of red suns, where she is weaker, because she can get drunk more easily there. And with her is her trusty mutt, also from Krypton. She encounters a young girl, bent on an impossible quest for revenge, helps her out briefly, then blows her off. But then her space mobile home gets hijacked, by the very same bad guys the kid is after - and her dog gets poisoned. So, kid in tow, she sets out to find these bad guys, retrieve the antidote, and get back to her dying dogo within 3 days. DetailsA lot of the action sequences are done in what we refer to as "Bourne style": To save on stunt and effects budgets, they are done very fast, in dim lighting, so it's hard to tell exactly what is going on. This is not our preference; your mileage may vary. We would say the casting was pretty good. The actors all do a pretty good job with the silly comic book dialogue. And it's not all silly. Kara's quietly emotional monologues about her tragic past are well written, and perfectly delivered. Is kinda long, though. Nearly 2 hours. ConclusionCan't really reach one, as, try as we might, none of us were sufficiently interested to watch more than halfway through. It seemed a passable way to blow an evening, if you have literally nothing better to do.