Milly Alcock offers a harmonious debut into the DC world and clearly steals the show from her film cousin Superman.
The new supergirl isn’t completely unknown to us, as she already had a short post-credit appearance in the last “Superman”. At that time, Kara Zor-El aka. played by Milly Alcock appeared. Supergirl with her cousin Clark Kent aka. Superman goes to pick up their super dog Krypto. The second film in the new DC Universe under masterminds James Gunn and Peter Safran is now entirely hers.
Scene from “Supergirl”
Alcoholic birthday
It tells the story of the slow emergence of a superhero, because at first Kara is a rough, bad-tempered, self-destructive party girl who celebrates her 21st birthday with tons of alcohol and promptly gets into a fight. Once she shows helpfulness and love, these feelings are only directed at her dog, but when young Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eva Ridley) shows up with a large sword and full of hatred for her family’s murderer, Kara makes an exception. However, her motivation is not enough for further support and a real John Wick effect has to set in before she and Ruthye set out to search for the villain Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his brutal cronies.
Scene from “Supergirl”
More “Star Wars” than DC
A surprising number of bar scenes with the most unusual aliens and spaceships, which have an almost crappy patina, initially make you think that director Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya”) has directed a “Star Wars” film. It takes Kara quite a long time to overcome her inner stubbornness to slip into the Supergirl costume that is waiting for her, but then she really puts her foot down and the typical scrapping and beating action ensues in the best comic tradition. And in between there is also an inventive raid by space pirates.
Scene from “Supergirl”
Momoa as Lobo unleashed
Jason Momoa is now changing roles in the DC Universe and becomes the alien bounty hunter Lobo instead of Aquaman. This extremely brutal heavy metal fan even murdered Santa Claus in the drawings and regularly beat up Superman. Momoa plays the man with the KISS makeup, a constantly red-hot cigar in his mouth and the flying fire chair under his ass with devoted gruffness. This guy is definitely not suitable for teamwork, but at least he says words of appreciation when others surprise him with well-dosed use of force.
Of course, Superman also appears here and there in the form of David Corenswet, but he doesn’t have an easy time next to his wild cousin because she makes him seem like a well-behaved bore. But she also has every reason to act so rebellious because she had to survive a much more difficult childhood, as a flashback reveals. The super likeable Milly Alcock is welcome to continue racing through the air at high speed and beating up a few bad guys.
4 out of 5 silent screams in space