Superhero Movie! (2008)
13 %
Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 6 Rotten:39 Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus:
Superhero Movie is not the worst of the spoof genre, but relies on tired gags and lame pop culture references all the same.
Runtime: 85 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 28, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $25,815,447
Synopsis: In this spoof of Hollywood blockbusters, director and screenwriter Craig Mazin (THE SPECIALS) tackles the age-old story of a regular guy who suddenly finds that he possesses super powers. Ricky Riker (Drake Bell) is a typical teenager, except that his luck is worse then most. Basically,... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Leslie Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Marion Ross
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Unfortunately, the film has nothing remotely interesting or satirical to say about the genre it is spoofing, so there is little to hold your attention between the gags, which do not arrive at the rapid-fire clip necessary to sustain the laughter ...
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07/04/08
Even though the movie made me laugh hard during some scenes, it's wildly uneven!
06/18/08
This parody film plagiarizes Spider-Man to virtually laughless effect.
06/12/08
The stench is still thick on the corpse of Meet The Spartans, but apparently filmgoers can’t get enough of lame-duck lampoons from Scary Movie alumni.
06/06/08
This year's Superhero Movie isn't as epically bad as last year's Epic Movie, but it does provide more evidence that the spoof genre is tapped out.
04/03/08
Superhero Movie should be taken as a well-meaning but ultimately uneven lesson in how to handle future parodies.
04/02/08
There are a few lively bits, and one joke with an edge: a slap at Stephen Hawking and his computer-drone voice. Mostly, though, this is super-lame.
04/02/08
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Superhero Movie is the living definition of "hit or miss." Parts of it admittedly made me laugh out loud, but for every joke that scored, there were two that didn't.
04/01/08
Essentially a retread of every bad grade-school joke you're happy to have forgotten.
03/31/08
With jokes packed as tightly together as sliced cheese, the flick's comedy axiom seems to be: Never give the audience a pause to second-guess their laughter
03/31/08
While by no means a masterpiece, when Craig Mazin riffs on the "Spider-Man" trilogy, "Superhero Movie" is cause for some occasional chuckles...
03/31/08
It's a bit late in the game for Superhero Movie, which was never going to fly, and barely crawls.
03/31/08
Top Critic
Despite a few amusing moments, this underwhelming spoof is strictly direct-to-video material.
03/31/08
It looks for all the world as if writer/director Craig Mazin took the screenplay for Spider-Man, propped it up next to his MacBook, and just went through it, inserting fart gags, pratfalls and the lamest of jokes.
03/31/08
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The very act of writing critically about Superhero 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.
03/31/08
Top Critic
Puerile and idiotic it may be, but Superhero Movie is nonetheless smarter than most of its lowbrow brethren in the Hollywood sub-sub-category known as the spoof movie.
03/31/08
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