VHS will ONLY  feature the 124min cut and MAKING OF.

5th August 2000, 8.30 am London time a parcel flopped through the letterbox onto the mat.

What's this? I am not expecting anything until the 12th. it cannot be the Supergirl Limited Edition DVD as that isn't released until Tuesday 8th. But sure enough it was.

SUPERGIRL LIMITED EDITION DVD. it even has a number on the back of the case which is quite thick and sturdy. 3 days early and all it cost was twenty quid. From Admit One well done guys.

I ripped off the cardboard packaging cut away the cellophane shrink wrap and opened the box. Two discs and an unusually thick booklet. In goes the first disc. Film in widescreen. The sound coming from the speakers was sharp and the colours were bright.

The film itself was like the version that was on television at Easter but in widescreen and surround sound. Somehow there was still something missing at the beginning you do not see the girl solving the maths equation and you don't see Jimmy and Lucy bidding farewell to Ethan at the end, but there it was on disc two. 

All the extras was very good the German trailer sounded like a cheap porno movie. It was good seeing the making of Supergirl as we didn't get this shown in England as I recall but I was only 14 and didn't watch much tele. So Jeannot and Scott have voices now I know what they sound like.

This DVD is brilliant well worth the money if not more. Only one more thing to say. ROLL ON SUPERMAN DVD

REVIEW by DIESEL

8th August

Rather than elaborate on the details of the Limited Edition disc {which is information that will probably be discussed at length in other reviews), I would like to point out that for those of us who have long viewed SUPERGIRL on tape or disc, the DVD is a slightly different viewing experience...and a slightly disconcerting one at that. Although the movie is in the widescreen format at a 2.35:1 ratio, there is a good deal of picture information originally seen in the full frame version that has been cropped for the 2.35:1 transfer. Throughout the movie, I kept remarking to my significant other (who hated the film and groaned every time a bad line of dialogue was spoken --- and there are a lot of those), "the bottom of the movie looks cramped!" Sure enough, a comparison with the original pan and scan tape proves me correct.

In short, although we see more of the movie on the sides, we see less of it on the bottom and top. Since the last time I saw the movie in widescreen was back in college at the movie theaters, I cannot recall or confirm whether the DVD reflects the true theater ratio, but for some reason, I think (and I could be dead wrong) that they cropped too much of the picture vertically.

Just take a look at the TV spot trailers, especially where Kara tells Ethan "I'm his cousin." You can see more of the "S" on her costume than in the widescreen movie where it is virtually cut-off.. I now wish that the DVD had a full screen option in addition to the letterboxed version of the movie. In comparison to the unmatted version, some of the scenes in the widescreen look too cramped.

On the other hand, the overall picture looks great, and Ms.Slater looks drop-dead gorgeous. SUPERGIRL has never been in better shape.

REVIEW by AHEM

15th August

To begin, this film is a vehicle for one of Britain's most overlooked cinematographers, Alan Hume BSC. Finally we have on DVD his greatest achievement. Shania Twain, eat your heart out.

Technically, this film looks like superior to any film made around the 1984 period, and it seems a crime that it received no academy award for visual effects, considering the winner for that year was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with its shoddy mine car racing. Indeed, a friend of mine viewed this with me on a 16:9 TV, the best money can get in 5.1 too, and he demanded that he scan through all of the wire work FRAME BY FRAME, ZOOMING IN if necessary. No wires could be seen.

In a time before the spoiler ridden, egregious journalism of AICN.COM, tired CGI lizards, overuse of 'Flo-motion' and other boring conventions of 90s cinema, the Salkinds gave us Supergirl. This film was made as an addition to their damage proof 80s pop culture product franchise, and this is where audiences were divided, because the majority had come to see the man of steel. While Supergirl is no winner in terms of narrative, as social practise it is incredibly interesting. Supergirl comes from her Utopia environment and lands in the middle of Reagan's 1983, actually filmed in the new romantic flavoured UK, taking great advantage of Thatcher's pound. Here, not unlike her Utopian home town of Argo, the palace is inhabited by clean, sweater wearing, non drug taking pretty boys and girls, who listen to the tunes of the then 28 year old god of synthesised music, Howard Jones. Indeed at the Midvale high school, the only drunk on campus is the janitor, and it is in this environment that Jimmy Olsen, who always looked an out cast amongst the 30 somethings of the Daily Planet looks at home. Adding to the contemporary fashions of neon, pinks and hot waxed hair is the Chicago setting, which at the time was synonymous with teen flicks, most notably all of John Hughes films. The greatest contrast to this is the Phantom Zone used later on in the film, a new romantics nightmare, where colours are isolated and blood and grit darken the mood. Add to this Tony Clarke's synthesised WHHOOOSSSHH sound FX, and then you'll realise that Supergirl just COULDN'T be made outside of the mid- 1980s.

REVIEW by CrtmnCP

16th August

Very nicely packaged DVD, the first disc illustrated with the red and yellow superman logo and the second, special edition disc with the cinematic silver logo. The enclosed booklet is rather interesting, providing brief details on the finding of the restored footage and surprisingly a few negative criticisms about the film itself. It also contains a few promotional materials made for the film's original release, mostly aimed at kids such as a crossword puzzle and other things you would expect to find on a placemat at a McDonalds. If this was the publicity for the film it is little surprise why it did so poorly at the box office! The first disc is THX enhanced and is very well done. The storyboard extra is a standout as you watch a series of storyboards one after another from a given sequence accompanied by Jerry Goldsmith's score for that particular scene. The storyboards are beautifully drawn as well and give you a glimpse at a few concepts that did not make it into the film. Some storyboards are labelled Superman 3. Was this to be the next film originally after Superman 2??? The Making Of documentary is pretty interesting since all the actors involved participated including Peter O' Toole.