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Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie (2008)

March. 28,2008
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4.7
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PG-13
| Action Comedy Science Fiction

The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.

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guisreis
2008/03/28

Based on IMDb rating and on critics and reviews everywhere, I expected a horrible film, just one more of those awful spoof movies Hollywood produces dozens each year. Well, since its beginning, though, it showed that it would be quite a great surprise. It is campy and silly, off course, and that is not a problem as it is a well made comedy that knows what it does. It is a dark humor parody of famous superhero films and stories such as Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Fantastic Four. Most of the jokes are nice (how to say that a film with a "Tom Cruise" sketch like that is bad?!) and I could not avoid but to laugh a lot. Critics are unfair; much worse films (including "serious" superhero acclaimed pyrotechnical crap) receive more favorable opinions, what is hard to understand.

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govindb121
2008/03/29

At first i thought that the movie was stupid but then the movie turned out to be OK.All the jokes in the movie was good and funny but the movie had over jokes which were not needed.Like spider man movie, this guys parents dies and he then lives with his grandparents but unlike spider man movie where the grand dad dies, in this movie the grand mother dies.due To the sick parts and bad language in the movie,the movie is not meant for watching with your parents or with your young brother.like in spiderman movie, when the guy gets bitten and after sometimes when he gets bitten by a dragon fly,everything he touches gets stuck to his hands.Frankly speaking the movie was just like the copy of the spiderman movie except that there are more jokes in this movie compared to spider man movie.

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SnoopyStyle
2008/03/30

This one is spoofing a lot on the Spiderman franchise as well plenty from every other superhero movie. Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is the geeky student. He is infatuated with fellow student Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton). Trey (Kevin Hart) is his best friend. They go to Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald)'s labs on a school excursion. There he is bitten by a mutant dragonfly. He lives with his uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen) and aunt Lucille (Marion Ross) since he lost his parents.There are a lot of bad spoof movies these days. This one is the best of a bad lot. At least it's actually following a functional superhero movie story. And the best thing may be that it has Leslie Nielsen. Nobody can tell a deadpan joke quite like him. He still hits it out of the park time and time again. Drake Bell is not necessarily a good actor and the movie suffers because of him. It comes close but it's not good enough to recommend. The classics are still unsurpassed.

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chris dimarino
2008/03/31

Superhero Movie is very odd. Anyone who's seen these Scary Movie spin offs where the movie is a series off topical jokes relating to a movie genre know that they have not been too good lately. This movie surprised me with the fact that I laughed much more than I thought I would. There was a lot of dumb moments that kind of spoil it but I guess it might just be for a different crowd.There are a few well written jokes, and a couple of decent acting jobs. Kevin Hart was funny as always. Leslie Nielsen was a little on the slapstick side but brought his famous personality to it. Sara Paxton almost seemed to pretty and took the movie very seriously. She almost seemed like she was playing an actual part in a hero movie.The real flaws of this movie are when it lulled with sad attempts at jokes and poorly executed goofy moments. Almost every movie in this line has those attempted goofy moments that the self assigned mature audience will dislike, but even some dumb moments made me laugh.I would recommend Superhero Movie to anyone who enjoys comedy and doesn't mind a bunch of moments where the movie lags into dumb comedy.

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