Written by Josie Campbell
Directed by Jeff Wamester
Supergirl (to Superman): "Batman's right. I don't belong here. With Krypton gone. With Mom gone, I don't belong anywhere."
Back on to the Tomorrowverse side of things and perhaps I timed this movie well. With a certain Maid of Might getting another casting, this movie largely focused on Supergirl (Meg Donnelly) and all the better for it.
The opening scene focused on the destruction of Argo City with Kara Zor-El and her mother, Alura In-Ze (Jennifer Hale) being separated from one another. Then we cut to Kara in Metropolis struggling with Earth life.
Even donning the guise of Supergirl and working with her cousin Superman (Darren Criss) and a sceptical Batman (Jensen Ackles) didn't exactly help. A fight with Solomon Grundy (Darin De Paul) only made Kara feel more isolated and for that, Superman had the perfect solution - send Supergirl to the 31st Century.
Yup, Supergirl got to go a thousand years into the future thanks to a time bubble device Superman had and train with the Legion of Super-Heroes. That meant initially finding Mon-El (Yuri Lowenthal) charming and aggressively coming to blows with Brainiac 5 (Harry Shum Jr). Kara assumed he was going to be like his famous grandfather and for at least a few scenes, we were led to believe she might have been right.
Of course it turned out that the original Brainiac (Darin De Paul) was the main villain of the piece with both the Dark Circle and Mon-El as his faithful acolytes. That along with previous Brainiac clones entrapped into the current Brainiac meant that both Supergirl and Brainiac had to rescue their fellow Legionnaires and teachers in order to stop Brainiac.
As for the rest of the heroes, there was a nice amount of screen time given to characters such as Dawnstar (Cynthia Hamidi), Triplicate Girl (Daisy Lightfoot), Bouncing Boy (Ely Henry), Phantom Girl (Gideon Adlon), Invisible Kid (Zeno Robinson) and Arms-Fall-Off Boy (Ben Diskin) to name but a few. Not to mention between stopping Brainiac's grand scheme, there was a hint of a romance between Supergirl and Brainiac 5.
- The Flash (Matt Bomer) briefly appeared in this movie, following Grundy's capture.
- Meg Donnelly who voices Supergirl in this universe did audition for the character in the DCU. Milly Alcock would get the role.
- There's a post credit sequence, leading to the next movie, Justice League: Warworld.
- Chronology: Both 21st and 31st centuries for the movie.
Legion Of Super-Heroes was an enjoyable trip to the 31st Century with Supergirl being a great focus along with a very strong plot for Brainiac (all of them). I had a good time with this one.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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