Variety
Given the abysmal quality of recent spoof pics, it's saying something that Superhero Movie provides a fairly steady stream of midsized laughs -- and even the 40% or so of gags that just lie there aren't actively painful.
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Superhero Movie
Ye gods. Here comes another spoof movie, from the writer of Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 (He hasn’t been stuck in a rut there, no, not at all). This time everything from Batman Begins to The Fantastic Four is in his targets (Um, wasn't that last one already a colossal joke?).
The story follows high school loser Rick Riker, who gets bitten by a dragonfly and develops superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armoured skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as 'The Dragonfly'. He soon finds himself fighting his nemesis 'The Hourglass'.
2008USA
Comedy
- Director:
- Craig Mazin ('The Specials')
- Writer:
- Craig Mazin
- Cast:
- Leslie NielsenSara PaxtonDrake BellJeffrey TamborChristopher McDonaldKevin Hart
Superhero Movie / Reviews
The New York Times
No real mockery is intended by this harmless, mindless grab bag of slightly used gags, which lampoons some of the conventions of recent comic-book epics and adds the expected staples of juvenile humor: urine, vomit and intestinal gas.
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By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.
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Los Angeles Times
The very act of writing critically about Superhero Movie inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances.
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LA Weekly
Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
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Entertainment Weekly
Seems to have been given the comedy equivalent of blood thinner. It has the blazing satirical boldness to skewer the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man -- and, amazingly, not much else.
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Christchurch Press
The fast-paced combination of visual and verbal japery feels like a throwback to that golden age of spoofing 25 to 30 years ago.
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