Supergirl (2026)

This topic contains:

• overall comments and recommendations
• details of classification and consumer advice lines for Supergirl (2026)
• a review of Supergirl (2026) completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 1 July 2026.

Overall comments and recommendations

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

• a synopsis of the story
• themes
• use of violence
• material that may scare or disturb children
• product placement
• sexual references
• nudity and sexual activity
• use of substances
• coarse language
• the movie’s message

A synopsis of the story

As Kara Zor-El, aka ‘Supergirl’ (Milly Alcock), struggles with her identity, she goes on a multi-day partying spree. She runs into 13-year old Ruthye (Eve Ridley), who is seeking someone to help her get revenge on Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts) for killing her family. While Kara initially declines to help Ruthye, Krem forces her hand by poisoning her beloved dog Krypto, who only has three days to live unless Kara gets the antidote.

In a race against the clock, Kara and Ruthye hunt down Krem and his crew to both save Krypto and get revenge for Ruthye’s family. However, the duo becomes involved in a plot to capture young girls so Krem’s crew can continue their species. In this journey of self-discovery, revenge and loss, will Kara and Ruthye be able to both save Krypto’s life and free the other girls from their slavery?

Trauma; Parent death; Child death; Human trafficking; Alcoholism; Grief; Slavery.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

• Parents should be aware that throughout the film, there is a subplot that focuses on violence toward young women, and human trafficking is heavily implied. While there are no sexual assault scenes shown, it is heavily implied that young girls are being kidnapped and used as sexual slaves.
• Throughout the film, a lot of violence is shown, specifically toward women and children. Parents are killed protecting their children, and two children are murdered by a male character on screen.
• Much of the violence shown throughout the film leads to substantial injury or death, except to the main characters.
• A teenage boy has an axe thrown at his back and he collapses to the ground, presumably dead. His mother screams in distress, picks up a knife and attempts to stab the man who killed her son, before getting knocked back and killed.
• A man blows up a spacecraft full of villains, before he is stabbed and murdered.
• Kara gets hit hard on the back of the head and bleeds.
• Kara stabs a character in the gut, but they don’t die.
• Kara wakes up, hungover, and notices a weapon imbedded in her leg. She pulls it out and it bleeds.
• Krypto bites and mauls a character’s arm.
• A child female character is stalked by Krem. He grabs her by the throat and stabs both her parents as they try to protect her, and they fall to the ground dead. He then slits her throat and drops her, killing her.
• Kara kills Krem in revenge for what he did to Ruthye and Krypto, stabbing him in the stomach and throat.
• Kara snaps a character’s arm quite graphically.
• Fight scene where alien pirates and Kara are in a brawl that has several visual glitches as they teleport around; they punch, electrocute and hit each other.
• A character tries to blast a weakened Kara with a laser, but she gets her powers back and survives.
• Kara is involved in a bar fight and takes down an entire bar full of aliens.
• Kara is shot by Kryptonite arrows and is nearly killed, before being saved at the last moment by a male character.
• Two female characters get in a verbal argument, screaming at each other.
• Ruthye attacks and kills a guard.
• A man is beheaded and his head is put in a bag.
• A male character holds a knife to a young girl’s throat.
• Kara is often slammed into walls by larger male characters, injuring her.
• A scary-looking character sneaks up behind Ruthye, hitting her hard and knocking her out.
• Ruthye spits in Krem’s face as an act of defiance.

Material that may scare or disturb children

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

• There is a scary, menacing-looking character with piercings all over face.
• Throughout the film, there are aliens of various types, often scary-looking with weirdly shaped bodies or heads, large eyes and tentacles.
• A scary-looking alien creature snatches a sword out of a young girl’s hands, and roars loudly in her face.
• There are several superhero sequences with explosions and destruction.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

• Dog bites a character in the crotch, before they roar in pain. He picks up the dog by the scruff of its neck, and Kara knocks him out.
• Krypto is shot by an arrow and is shown writhing in pain. Kara is visibly distressed. Kara then finds out that she only has 3 days to save Krypto before he will die from poison.
• Kara has to watch her mother slowly dying, before the scene cuts to her mother’s funeral. She then sees hundreds of bodies of her fellow Kryptonians as their race slowly dies off. They are covered by white sheets and in coffins.
• Kara’s father creates a pod for her and Krypto as a last effort and ejects her to go and find Earth, making the two of them the only two survivors of their entire race.
• A man catches and kills a rat on screen, before throwing it across the room.
• Kara is ejected into space and gets frozen, almost dying.
• Kara is shown throwing up repeatedly after getting poisoned.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

• A young girl watches her entire family slaughtered. She is frozen in fear.
• Kara is betrayed by people she trusted and is poisoned. A male and female character tried to sell Kara and Ruthye in exchange for getting their daughter back.
• Kara is exposed to Kryptonite, visibly struggles to breathe and collapses, passing out. She cries as she believes that she is going to die and did not get to say goodbye to her dog Krypto. Ruthye cries over Kara and is visibly distressed.
• In a flashback sequence, Kara remembers her planet being destroyed. Her people had survived by creating a new, smaller planet protected by a forcefield. She then finds out that the planet and everyone on it will die from radiation.
• Ruthye almost kills Krem but changes her mind. She then collapses into Kara’s arms and cries, wishing that her life could go back to the way it was before.
• A young girl is sentenced to death and begs for her life.

• A young female character flees while her parents are held back, and are shown visibly distressed and screaming. A male character follows after the young girl, threatening the parents that he will hurt her.
• A character says that there is a species of character who search for girls to “help continue their all-male race”.
• A female character is groped and pulled around.
• A male alien character leers at a 13-year-old girl, saying that she is “worth a lot around here” and asks Kara to let him have her in exchange for her life. Kara then offers him to arm wrestle, saying that if she loses, he can “have them both”. The young girl is visibly frightened in this scene.
• Several young female characters are brutally grabbed, kidnapped or dragged away by the male characters who want to use them to continue their race.
• A young girl is grabbed by her hair and dragged away screaming by a male character
• Ruthye is referred to as ‘the merchandise’.
• The young girls kept as slaves for race continuation are referred to as “brides”.

Product placement

The following products are displayed or used in this movie:

• An iPod is shown on camera.
• Kara refers to an alien character as ‘Squidward’, a major character in SpongeBob SquarePants.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

• An alien character looks at Kara suggestively, before she gestures to herself and says “seriously?”
• Throughout the film there is implied sexual slavery.

Nudity and sexual activity

• None noted.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

• Kara is shown to have a serious substance abuse problem at the start of the film, as she specifically travels to planets with a red sun so she can get drunk every night. This is often shown in a way that might be perceived as ‘fun’, or comedic.
• Empty or half-full bottles of alcohol are shown throughout the film, as Kara’s ship is in an extremely messy state.
• Kara is shown partying and drinking at a club.
• Kara is often shown visibly hungover and sick on several occasions.
• Kara is shown drinking to the point of being drunk on many occasions. She stumbles around, slurring her words.
• A character is shown smoking a hookah on public transport.
• A character is shown smoking a cigar on several occasions.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

• Kara says, “Hi, I’m the bitch whose dog you shot”.
• “Shit” is said many times throughout the film.
• “Stupid” is said several times.
• A male character calls a young girl a “little shit” on several occasions.
• “Gotcha, bastards”.
• A character refers to having “balls”, in the context of bravery.
• “Friggin” is said multiple times.
• Kara pulls the middle finger on an alien.
• “Oh, what the fu-”.
• Kara tells Ruthye that by putting her bag at the feet of an alien, she was “calling her mother a whore”.
• Kara eats the excrement of an alien, saying it tastes like “shit”.

In a nutshell

Supergirl (2026) is a dark and edgy take on the traditional Supergirl story, showcasing Supergirl’s experiences navigating her trauma into young adulthood. While this may be an enjoyable story for adults or older teenagers, it is not suitable under 16 due to such themes as grief, death, alcoholism and human trafficking. Parental guidance may be warranted to 17 for more sensitive teens, or teens particularly sensitive to these themes.

The main messages from this movie are that your grief does not define you; and sometimes the best revenge is to live your life to the fullest.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

• Found family
• Self-acceptance
• Responsibility
• Kindness.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

• While the film attempts to have a female empowerment or feminist theme, parents may want to be aware of how this empowerment is often tied to violence. Parents may want to discuss how the film implies that the young girls are victims of sexual trafficking, and how it can be problematic to associate female empowerment with sexual violence, even if it is shown through liberation.
• Throughout the film, there is significant violence toward children and women committed by men in positions of power. Parents might want to take the opportunity to discuss how women were oppressed in this world, and how that might look in our real world. What can we do, as real people, to ensure that everyone is equal?
• Kara is shown relying on alcohol and being drunk to dull her feelings, which not only was self-destructive, but led to conflict between her and other characters who cared about her. Parents may want to discuss with their children how alcohol is not a good coping strategy, and explain the dangers of binge drinking.