Superhero Movie
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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- Cast:
- Drake Bell , Sara Paxton , Christopher McDonald , Leslie Nielsen , Kevin Hart , Marion Ross , Ryan Hansen
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Very best movie i ever watch
One of my all time favorites.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero. As a big fan of the Scary Movie Quadrilogy this movie couldn't be more awesome i mean if you loved X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Batman and pretty much every Superhero movie that was released during the early and late 90's but also the early 00's you're definitely going to love this movie as well. It has some terrific cameos, great comedy and the acting was very good plus Leslie Nielsen. (10/10)
i was surfing through netflix when i came across the aforementioned film, Superhero movie. i remember watching this film a few years back but i barely remembered anything about it. i remembered that the recent 'movie' films have all been disgusting pieces of cinematic Hitler, but i saw that David Zucker of 'airplane' and 'naked gun' fame was directing and it also had Leslie Nielsen, so i set my hopes for somewhere in the middle.The result:It works!! its a recent spoof comedy thats actually worth watching!!granted it still falls into the same trap of making pop culture references, but there aren't enough to make it a total hindrance. it is very hit and miss, but actually hits more often than one would think. Drake Bell's performance was entertaining, but a good portion of his jokes are just looking awkward or disgusted, which once again, is hit and miss. I also enjoyed Leslie Nielsen's performance, but it was sad to see some of the material he had to do, but apart from that his world famous timing is impeccable.overall, when its funny, its pretty damn funny, but when it flops, it really flops. it has the heart of the old spoof comedies which really adds to the film and makes it worthwhile to watch, but don't expect utter genius. put your standards in the middle, put your feet up, grab a beer and a joint and just relax and watch, you'll get more laughs than you'll expect.
Don't get me wrong, this movie is good to some extent, or – fairly – less bad than the recent parodies. I'm just talking about an unmistakable telltale these movies evoke about Hollywood these days.Parody means conscience beside comedy; to observe problems in the art's history (previous movies), or mock at the art itself (the cinema). It assures, more than anything, that cinema has become a living creature in the modern culture, so why not to satirize it, with love.In the last years, the number of parodies got bigger, and the level of making them got awful. So, what's the telltale of that ?! It's not about how for instance the writers and directors have become suddenly stupid! No. It's openly about an industry that lives a crisis; whereas the production has to be speedy and inflate. Hence the artistic level has become something not basic, to keep up with the crazy beat of making many many movies in no time.So, being a movie-maker in Hollywood of today is really shameful. Because it has turned into a city of hastiness, bankruptcy, and endless movies in the same time! Therefore, with great deal of sequels, prequels, spin-offs, remakes, based on already worn-out old works.. etc. the parodies, which are a spoof of all the above, mirror nothing but more bankruptcy. It seems that the deal now is mostly about taking an already made material (not creating original one), doing it very quickly (so farewell to quality too), and – to make it worse and worse – producing big quantity of that every year ! Accordingly (Superhero Movie) is a miniature of a big picture. Being unoriginal, rushed and dirty (as the easiest way to write) all are marks of an ill industry. I believe that in any age the original idea can't disappear, it's the production companies that don't search much, or have a time in the first place; especially while making 400 movies per year in the 2000s vis-à-vis 200 movies per year in the 1980s ! Speaking about the 1980s, look well at the parodies of it, then compare them to the ones of today. Simply the ones of today are far more and less good. For instance, between 1998 and 2008 about 13 parody movies were released by major studios, including nasty flops like the Date, Epic, Disaster, Meet the Spartans series, and some of the Scary Movie series, which makes you long for one Naked Gun movie; at least it was fit for more than one viewing, or a viewing for that matter ! It is, as a whole, a tragedy not of "quantity more than quality", but "quantity beats quality" ! (Superhero Movie) is some witness about how, in the 2000s, the superhero movie has been in fashion as it has never been before. It revenged on one of their worst in my book : Spiderman. It's funny at parts, offensive at many, and fart's lover in between (so while being not as tormenting as its likes lately—it's tormenting anyway !). Yet, its most important witness is the one it didn't intend; about how Super Immature the industry of Hollywood has become ! The parody here is a part of the disease more than a conscience to diagnose it. Obvious disease both ways.
Its probably my #1 favorite parody movie, but its strange because if I'm not mistaking, these are same creators of Epic movie, and Disaster movie! The 2 worst comedy movies ever made! I mean, true, they did make Scary movie, that was pretty good, but they also made the sequels, which kind of sucked. (Except for #2, that was OK too) But strangely enough, Superhero Movie worked so much! I was actually hoping that they would make sequels, and I still kind of do! They have a lot of material to work with, Now with Thor, Captain America, etc, they could make a sequel and still make it a great movie! All the jokes and slapstick are hilarious and it has Drake Bell which is pretty interesting because he was a kids show actor on Nickelodeon at the time, in fact, he promoted this movie on Nickelodeon at one time. So it was pretty cool to see him in the role. I recommend this movie by a longshot, it is a must see for comedy movie fans and comic book movie fans. So check it out!