The Pissed Take - Supergirl (2026)

SUPERGIRL -or- THE WOMAN OF YESTERDAY AKA Gunn shoots himself in the foot again.

Release Date 26June2026

SUPERGIRL is a tiresome wreck that earns its box office sinkhole. It has nothing to do with star MILLY ALCOCK. She's fine in this. EVERYTHING ELSE is the problem, from stem to stern.

SUPERGIRL is based on the DC Comics character KARA ZOR-EL, created by OTTO BINDER and designed by AL PLASTINO. She first appeared in May 1959 in the story "The Supergirl from Krypton", in ACTION COMICS #252. The character is the cousin of SUPERMAN. This movie is loosely adapted from "SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW" by TOM KING and BILQUIS EVELY from 2021. The comic is basically TRUE GRIT in space — a girl hires Supergirl to avenge her murdered family, and the whole thing is a meditation on grief, rage, and what the powerful owe the powerless. Keep that in mind for later.

NO SPOILERS

Kara is celebrating her 23rd b-day by getting shit-housed, and into random fights. She's also still real sad over Krypton getting blowed-up and the fate of her hometown of ARGO CITY. Enter a sword-wielding alien teenager with a sad tale, and an embarrassing number of inappropriate needle drops, and... f#ckery.

The greasy slick coating of Gunn's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is thick. It also does not work. The original comics story and what it has to say is partially replaced or stripped bare of its core meaning in such a way that what you have is a string of events that are held together by small strips of old tape. It is incredibly lazy for a nearly 200 million dollar movie. Failures like these are why it is increasingly harder to get a movie made, especially without a corporate safety net. Making Kara some stock edgy 20-something trying to find her place in the universe without ESTABLISHING WHY cheats the audience of any chance to care about the character. Any "why" is sprinkled awkwardly throughout the movie. In fact, the entire movie is rather awkward, there really isn't a solid place to stand with it, and I left feeling like I'd actually experienced nothing.

THE GOOD:

Not much, though MILLY ALCOCK manages to bring in a strong performance, despite a weak script. Some of the practical sets are impressive.

THE BAD:

THE REST OF THE MOVIE. I don't ever need to see guardians of the galaxy again, I certainly don't need to see other things that do the same thing. The villain KREM OF THE YELLOW HILLS gives big MALEKITH vibes. Remember Malekith from Thor: The Dark World? Right, nobody else does either. LOBO, WHY!? Sticks out like priapism and is only there as a garish sharting of fan-service. THE NEEDLE-DROPS: Hey, lets pick music that totally does not work with the scene and makes the "sphinc" wink. JASON MOMOA's muscle suit... HAHAHAHAHA – WTF!?

SEE IT!

NO!

DON'T SEE IT!

Good for you. Don't do drugs.