Krypto the Superdog isn’t very cute in “Supergirl.” I understand that the way the pup was rendered for this film involved taking a real dog (which probably was very cute) and slathering CGI all over his likeness. The result is a dog with a face that looks unnatural and with whom I couldn’t connect during emotional scenes.

You know your Super-whatever movie is in trouble when you can’t make a character like Krypto lovable.

Krypto’s owner is more bearable, but just barely. Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El — aka Supergirl — a cousin of Superman’s who was raised on a sort of Kryptonian bunker after the planet’s destruction. Eventually, the bunker couldn’t sustain life and Kara had to be sent alone to Earth as well, but unlike Superman, she knew a home and a family on Krypton only to have it all taken away. As a result, she doesn’t take to Earth like Superman did and now mostly........

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