Craig Gillespie‘s Supergirl (Warner Bros., 6.26) has landed a 58% Rotten Tomatoes rating. We all know what this means. It means that it effing stinks.
Excerpted from Owen Gleiberman‘s Variety review:
“Kill Krem! Save the dog! Those are the motivations driving the entire not-even-interesting-enough-to-be-convoluted plot of Supergirl. Maybe that’s why the movie is full of action yet numbingly flat.
“There was one thing about last year’s Superman that perhaps the whole world could agree on: In that 12-minute-long argument between Clark Kent and Lois Lane (mostly a very good scene), the moment when Clark made the case that Superman’s wholesome valor was ‘punk rock’…well, that was cringe. The second you call anything ‘punk rock’, it has ceased, in that moment, to be ‘punk rock.’ It has instead become lame.”