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Estelle Getty, repeating her Broadway portrayal of Arnold's mother, is superb as the classic sharp-witted fastidious Jewish mother, who can not come to accept her son's way of life. With perfect comic timing and the characteristic Brooklynese--moved--to--Miami Beach inflections, Getty delivers such gems as "You have your whole life ahead of you...while mine is flashing before my eyes," "What do I say...do I tell you how to run your life?" and the ultimate, "You get only one mother in this world." Through the humor and blunt directness, she expresses her own pain...
...FIRST three films were consistently blessed by David and Leslie Newman's scripts. They never forgot the "comic" present in comic books, and were careful to protect the internal told total to the verisimilitude of factors...
...David Odell's "Supergirl" script keeps the comic at the cost of coherence. The plot has holes large enough to fit the planet of Krypton through, even before it blew up into tiny bits of Kryptonite...
...hatchetman of promising sequels. Given a cast of the most talented hams in Hollywood, he squeezes as bland a performance as possible from each one. Dunaway is left to rehash the residue of her Joan Crawfordisms from "Mommy Dearest," charging through some genuinely funny lines with the comic timing...
...Toole, as the repentant Kryptonian Zaltar, reverts to the sloppy mannerisms that only a sloppy director would allow O'Toole is never on screen with Cooke, one of the great missed movie opportunities of many years. For his part, Cooke almost succeeds in catalyzing some comic chemistry with the self-absorbed Dunaway, but he is never on screen long enough to succeed. Hart Bochner plays Ethan, a sort of distaff Lois Lane, with as much quirky nervousness as Margot Kidder brought to Lane. The chubby Vaccarro seems to be the only veteran comfortable with her part, which entirely consists...