Supergirl is a fun roller-coaster of a movie. Part True Grit, part Mad Max, it’s pacing keeps it moving even through emotional moments and flashbacks, the needle drops and score keep the emotions high, and the direction makes the action gritty and exciting.

Milly Alcock makes a wonderful Supergirl. She brings the “true grit” aspect of the movie, the down-and-out drunken fighter who befriends a youth (Ruthye) and ends up traveling with her in search of revenge and justice. Kara Zor-El holds far more pain than a 23-year old should have to bear. She is raised by loving parents, but in a dead, poisoned world, that takes everything from her. She ends up with her cousin, Superman, who doesn’t speak her language because he is a happy, kind Kansas boy, and she can’t relate. She can only relate to her dog, Krypto, who is as messy as she is.

The Mad Max of it all comes in when she ends up having to chase down brigands, who look exactly like road warriors from the Mad Max movies, only planet hopping. As it happens, an unstoppable, wise ass, lone survivor of his own planet bounty hunter named Lobo is also after the same brigands. It’s not a “team up” because they don’t team up. But when they’re on screen together, it’s electric. And Lobo is truly a part Jason Momoa was born to play. He’s loved the character since he was a teenager, and he’s not just having fun, he knows Lobo, and it’s a joy to behold.

It’s not a perfect movie, but it doesn’t need to be perfect to be exciting and fun. The villain is pretty one-note, but that’s fine, it’s not his movie. Fourteen year-old Philipeno-British actress Eve Ridley rushes some of her lines, but again, she’s captures the emotion of what this girl has been put through, and she stands toe-to-toe with Millie Alcock, who is exceptional. But none of it’s flaws were enough to take me out of the movie, or make me enjoy it less.

Let’s put it this way: this is a movie where a character can go to a jukebox on a planet light years from Earth and find British contemporary alternative rock songs in its playlist. If you’re the type of person to criticize that, this movie may not be for you. If you’re the type to smile along and see where the movie takes you next, you’ll be rewarded with an exciting, sometimes funny, occasionally moving, fantasy adventure.