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68 out of 99 people found the following comment useful :-
How???, 3 avril 2008

Author: igobymanynamesbutyoumayc de United Kingdom

It doesn't make any sense, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans are all candidates for my worst movie of all time. So why did I enjoy this movie so much? I don't like the cast but they work incredibly hard to make a half decent script into something highly amusing. A welcome return for Zucker style silliness and less pathetic attempts at parodies, there are also hints at intelligent humour and nods to other classic spoofs. There is also a truly hilarious moment involving Tom Cruise played to perfection by Miles Fisher.

Seriously it is truly hilarious in places, I am surprised but by no means ashamed to recommend this for anyone in need of a topical or silly laugh.

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94 out of 151 people found the following comment useful :-
Was actually decent!, 29 mars 2008

Author: prometheus99 de Canada

I really liked this one. I wasn't expecting much, being worn out on spoof movies lately because of the layer of crap that's been dropped on us, the movie-going public. "Epic Movie","Date Movie","Meet the Spartans" all sucked.

That being said, the people who made this, made the latter-day Zucker- styled comedies(a la Airplane, The Naked Gun) Scary Movie 3 & 4, and not those other "Movie" movies (which are the domain of Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer).

There were parts of this movie where I laughed so hard I could barely breathe. And that happens SO rarely with comedies lately. Seriously, I laughed hard.

But, it was one of those things that will entertain but never be a classic you'd bother watching again. It was a bit forgettable in that way.

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107 out of 180 people found the following comment useful :-
An irreverent and often outrageously funny parody!, 28 mars 2008

Author: kalebrudy de United States

(NOTE: The people behind Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans were NOT at all involved in this film.)

Superhero Movie delivers jokes so rapidly in it's first half that you almost forget how good a time you've had after a slower ending. Still, I can say with assurance that you'll get more laughs out of this than any other film currently in theatres.

What makes Superhero Movie particularly interesting is that it was written and directed by only one person, much unlike the Scary Movies, which all took 3 - 6 writers to complete. Craig Mazin mostly succeeds with his particularly irreverent brand of humor, and this is notable considering that he is spoofing material that doesn't exactly lend itself to parody.

Sure, I could find some things to complain about (the hit-and-miss humor becomes a little tired), but the bottom line is that this movie is still immeasurably better than what the spoof genre has been putting out lately (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans...) We can see that there is intelligence and wit behind Superhero Movie, whereas Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's lame efforts are completely void of both.

If you're looking for a good time and more than a fair share of big laughs, your money will be well spent on this one.

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With great parody comes great responsibility, 29 mars 2008

Author: steve-bailey-1 de Jacksonville Beach, FL

If "Superhero Movie" gives you the same giddy, guilty-pleasure feeling as "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" movies, it's no accident. Some of those movies' personnel – who were also involved in two lesser "Scary Movie" sequels – show up here. (Those include writer-director Craig Mazin, who happily has come a long way from 1997's abysmal "Rocketman.")

The movie's title says it all. It's a comedy that takes a well-known hit (in this case, "Spider-Man"), turns it inside out, and uses it as a clothesline for gags. In this parody version, nerdy Rick Riker (amiable Drake Bell of cable-TV's "Drake and Josh") gets bitten by a mutant dragonfly, turning him into...well, take a guess. Meanwhile, a well-meaning scientist (Chris McDonald) turns nasty when his experiment backfires and he finds he must sap others' life-blood in order to keep himself alive.

As is typical of such parodies, the movie's approach is as subtle as a spitball gun. Some of the gags are terrific, and some are groaners. But they're all fired at such a rapid pace that after a while, you have no choice but to give in to the silliness. The characters are like shooting-gallery ducks waiting to have parody lobbied at them. Best of the bunch are Rick's well-meaning but dotty uncle and aunt (delightfully played by Leslie Nielsen and "Happy Days'" Marion Ross). The most pitiable is a take-off on disabled genius Stephen Hawking, who seems to push Mazin's bad-taste button over and over ad nauseum.

This leads me to the movie's most required caveat. While the flick is mostly silly fun, it pushes its "PG-13" rating right up to the edge of the "R" cliff. The movie is larded with sexual gags and profanity abound, and what might possibly be cinema's longest-ever flatulence gag.

But if you can bear up under the cringe factor, "Superhero Movie" is mostly high-powered fun. Nifty comedy here runs neck-and-neck with bad taste. It's a close race, but the comedy wins.

"Superhero Movie" is rated PG-13 for countless sex and drug references, crude humor, and adult language.

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66 out of 115 people found the following comment useful :-
Not that bad!, 29 mars 2008

Author: dinahwherever de Canada

I came to my movie theatre wanting to see the movie, 21. But sadly, it was sold out, so I settled for Superhero Movie. Hearing that one of my favorite stars, Sara Paxton was in it, I figured why the hell not? I was with my friends, so if it was awful, I could just make fun of it with them.

I was expecting stupid cheesy jokes, like Meet The Spartans, but I have to admit, there were some quality laughs in this! (I loved how they spoofed Perez Hilton for that one second.) This is actually a very funny movie with some good humor in it, and even though they have the occasional stupid fart or crotch joke, even a very mature person who doesn't enjoy "bathroom humor" found some of it actually kind of laughable.

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13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
Better than most recent spoofs, but still not good, 20 juin 2008

Author: kevin_crighton (kevincrighton@btinternet.com) de Scotland

When a loser teen is bitten by an insect, he becomes the superhero Dragonfly...

Superhero Movie is the latest spoof movie to hit the screens. Sadly however, despite the presence of David Zucker (who was involved with Airplane!, Top Secret and The Naked Gun movies) it still suffers from the fault most recent spoofs have...mainly it's more dumb than fun! The fault mainly lies with the gags. It's simply not funny enough. Some of the jokes do work, such as the nail gun scene, but other parts simply fall flat. The X-men spoof for example, or the whole farting sequence. Blazing Saddles this isn't! One of the key things about the best spoof movies, like Airplane is that although the dialog is extremely funny, the cast for the most part play is completely straight. This makes it even funnier. Even when there is simple dialog in the foreground, there may well be funny things happening behind the cast. Again funny. The other key thing is that they all have a plot of sorts, to hang the gags on.

The recent trend seems to be to take scenes from various movies, THEN try and spoof them. As a result the so-called plot of these movies very rarely exist. Another flaw these movies have, is that some of the scenes were actually funny in the original versions, and in most cases even funnier than the spoof scene! The cast try to get into the spirit required, but with a lot of unfunny dialog and scenes, it's hard to get worked up about it.

As recent spoof movies go, it's not as bad as Epic Movie, Date Movie, or the awful Meet The Spartans, but considering that some people involved here have made good, funny movies in the past, it's nowhere near good enough.

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
"Superdud Movie" would be a more appropriate title, 14 mai 2008

Author: filmmffan16 de United States

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It's not fair. I was really expecting this to be a hilarious, entertaining movie. I mean, I like Drake Bell from Drake and Josh, and Leslie Neilson is nothing to be sneezed at since his earliest classics, Airplane and the Naked Gun. However, After seeing Superhero movie, I'm glad I didn't even have to pay for it. It just wouldn't have been anywhere near the 9$ per ticket. More like a dollar and a few pennies. Because that would sum up for the hour and a few minutes. And as disappointing as this film was I'm glad the running time was that short, if not shorter. I just cant believe how incredibly vulgar, unnecessary, and above all, STUPID, some of the scenes were! And above that, I've seen better acting from a wooden dummy(without the ventriloquist). It's as if Craig Mazin purposefully wanted to make a film that deserves its 3.7, if not lower, and even try to be worse than "Meet the Spartans". Very disappointing indeed.

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Finally they got rid of Adam Seltz and Jason Friedburg., 7 avril 2008

Author: dobbin-4 de Australia

The "movie" movie series was really going for a while there (All the Scary Movies had me in stitches) it bombed for a while when Adam Seltz and Jason Friedburg took over and here is a brief show is a list of ratings of some of the other "movie" movies: Date Movie: 57% Epic Movie: 50% Meet The Spartans: 48% But with this one the series gets better with Superhero films being sent up in a playful way and it is actually really funny. It is a little hit and miss but I think that adds to the final feel to the "dumbness" to the film. I think that this is worth a view for the fans of Scary Movie and haters of the later "movie" movies. Overall this is a good and funny film good for a laugh once or twice and I give it a fair rating of 65%.

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12 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Slowly but its getting there..., 29 mars 2008

Author: cruzazulfan007 de United States

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OK...the trailer gave me hope, the original trailer that is, that this movie would finally bring back those awesome jokes and gags from the great Airplane! and Naked Gun films, and it did, of course not as efficiently. This is a great great great start for all of us who want to see the great spoof movies make a comeback. There were some gags that went a little over the top, not to my surprise, but there were other gags that brought back memories of those classic movies. There was not so much pop culture as the other vomit-enducing movies like Meet the Spartans and other atrocities, but of course there was, but we cant blame them, there was pop culture references back in the Airplane movies as well. It put a smile on my face when i heard a good phrase in this movie: "Fruitcake?" "Oh no, i just haven't met the right woman". You have to be honest, that definitely brings back some hope that the producers are trying to bring it back. I say give it a try, I own all the great spoofs on DVD, i know my spoof movies, and i can guarantee that this movie is not as bad as others may say it is, and it totally makes Meet the Spartans and Epic movie look the garbage they are.

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The next spoof to be released should be named Horrible Movie, at least that would be honest., 31 mars 2008

Author: stewiefan201 de United States

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Superhero Movie is the latest in the line of spoofs that seem to fall off a toilet assembly line. As if you didn't already realize it just yet, this movie spoofs superhero movies. The main comic book movie the film is parodying is Spider Man, but there are a few other ones thrown in just for namesake. The story follows Rick Riker (Drake Bell), an unpopular student who is in love with his neighbor Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton) and dreams of being with her. His parents died when he was young and he is raised by his Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielson) and Aunt Lucille (Marion Ross). But one day on a class trip to a science organization Rick is accidentally bitten by a dragonfly. Soon he begins to develop superpowers and really has no idea what to do with them. Meanwhile an insane scientist Lou Landers (Christopher Mcdonald) has created a DNA moleculizer, and after using it he realizes he has the power to kill people by touching them. Landers turns himself into the evil arch villain Hourglass, and begins plotting to take over (what else?) the world! After learning this Rick turns himself into the green-suited superhero Dragonfly. He begins fighting crime, and with the support of his family and new girlfriend goes after Hourglass.

So the clouds are beginning to lift...Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean for this movie. No Superhero movie is as awful a spoof as they come. What I meant is that I checked the box office charts for this opening week. Superhero Movie only made $9.5 million on opening week and is sure to be gone from cinemas soon. And that may mean that finally audiences are learning that these garbage spoofs are not worth admission price. If this keeps up maybe there will be no more spoofs, and that would sure brighten up the world (and our theaters).

Now for the review of Superhero Movie. Let me start off with the positive: Leslie Nielson is funny in this movie. Nielson is a pioneer in the genre with spoofs like Airplane and the Naked Gun series. He knows how to make the jokes work in a spoof, no matter how vulgar or just downright stupid they are. I would love to watch a new spoof with him as the main character, but that's just not the case for atrocious alleged parody. Other than Leslie Nielson this film is an absolute abomination. Hollywood knows that these movies make big money at the box office so they just keep financing and releasing these cheap, lazy, and unfunny spoofs just for a quick cash-grab. Superhero Movie is cheap looking with awful special effects and costumes. The acting is very bad especially from Christopher Mcdonald who literally makes a fool out of himself. The usually likable Drake Bell also gives a bad performance, but you can't really blame him because he deserved more than this trash since he, unlike the writers, has actual talent.

The jokes in Superhero Movie are an all time low in flatness, and consist mostly of unfunny farts, injuries, vomiting, a few celebrity jokes, and pop culture references. This is really it with these pop culture references, I've hit rock bottom with them. It is not funny that all Apple's products start with the letter "i"; the cellphone commercials where you have "your 5" haven't been on TV in months, so it was stupid to resurrect it. This movie did not have nearly as many pop culture references as the below dreadful Meet the Spartans, but they are still really unfunny and just plain lazy in execution. Speaking of lazy Superhero Movie tries to parody Fantastic Four, Batman, and even X Men. Well the X Men parody is supposed to shift the plot, but only lasts five minutes and is so abysmally written that there's nothing to laugh at. Pamela Anderson actually shows up for literally 20 seconds as Invisible Woman. What's the real point in that? However here's where this movie now officially hits an offensive low never before discovered in the spoof genre. Superhero Movie offensively makes fun of Stephen Hawking with jokes about him wanting to commit suicide and having no self esteem. The film also makes fun of Barry Bonds' steroid use, and also cracks a racist joke on Nelson Mandela. That is not funny it's just insulting because these idiotic filmmakers obviously have no respect for any person that is smarter or more important than them. The fact that kids get to watch these jokes unfold on a pretty silver screen makes me yearn for the future.

Superhero Movie is a downright terrible spoof and it should get flushed down the toilet along with movies like Meet the Spartans, Date Movie, and Epic Movie. I give Superhero Movie a 0.5 out of 4, but only because of Leslie Nielson. Hopefully these spoofs stop getting made, since this one is the first sign of weakness at the box office.

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