Feora Wearing Biggins reviews Supergirl the movie

The girl of steel, The red blue blurette, Supergirl. Yes I was gone for two months but I'm back with a review of Supergirl: the movie. As you my already know I love the Superman movies, comics and books. So in theory I should love this movie and I almost do. It was funny purely due to how serious the film was meant to be. Superman fought Lex Luthor, General Zod and Nuclear man, Supergirl fought a wicked witch using kryptonian technology to boost her magical abilities. The whole plot is faintly ridiculous, but what I enjoyed most was the acting which was surprisingly good. Helen Slater portrayal of Supergirl was perfect, the naivety and the strongness of her character when angry. Her character was perfect but her origin was not true to the comics at all.

This film had a very similar score to Superman. It was exciting and uplifting. It was a fun film and it wasn't boring as one may expect it to be. The special effects were better than in Superman 4, Superman 4 is by far one of the worst films ever made and one of my favorites. This film is worth watching by all means but I've seen better films. 2/5

Superman and Batman issue #62 reviewed

This issue was entitled "Sidekicked" and featured Supergirl and Robin instead of Superman and Batman. The lack of Superman and Batman did not bother me in this comic because it showed so well the comparison of Superman's idealist views and Batman's dark realism.they show this key difference between the two heroes through their sidekicks. In the second panel Supergirl says "this city's is so not Metropolis." Metropolis is the perfect city compared to Gotham's Criminal filled streets. Their differences are even shown in their villains in this comic, you can see that Supergirl is shocked at the twisted-ness of the arkaham inmates. Superman's villains all want something logical world domination, revenge, money etc where as the majority of Batman's villains to quote the dark knight "just want to see the world burn."

These differences are what make Superman and Batman such an interesting team and the same applies to their sidekicks. I really enjoyed this comic despite the fact that I've never really enjoyed the characters of Supergirl and Robin, it was however a rather interesting look into their characters and I have to say I have a new found respect for the sidekicks. It was good to see the sidekicks take out a lot of Batman's rouge gallery.