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Superhero Movie
Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM

Superhero Movie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 33 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.5 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, drug references and language

Starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Pamela Anderson, Tracy Morgan, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, and Leslie Nielsen

How many superheroes does it take to save the world? The creators of The Naked Gun and Scary Movie answer this question in hysterical David Zucker fashion with the uproarious comedy Superhero Movie. Meet Rick Riker. He's young, he's cool, and he's got superpowers. Now, if he only knew how to use them... But the world is in danger, and no one is safe when Zucker and the gang--headed by the hilarious cast of Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Tracy Morgan, Pamela Anderson, Regina Hall, and many others--take aim at some of the biggest blockbusters of our time, including Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men, and Fantastic Four, to name a few. On March 28, learning to fly, spinning a web, and busting a gut has never been this much fun. (The Weinstein Company)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Craig Mazin  
DIRECTED BY: Craig Mazin  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: March 28, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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58
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Undiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further.
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50
Variety Dennis Harvey
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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50
Boston Globe Ty Burr
How can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.
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50
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
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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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
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.
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42
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
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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40
Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
What's shocking about Superhero Movie is not that it's been advertised to death on Nickelodeon to impressionable children, but that it's a completely on-the-nose satire of "Spider-Man.”
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40
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The gags are consistently weak, though actor Miles Fisher turns in a hair-raising impression of Tom Cruise.
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.
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30
LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
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30
The New York Times A.O. Scott
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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20
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's a tonally confused comedy which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.
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0
TV Guide Ken Fox
This abysmal "Spider-Man" satire has more in common with the lamentable spate of "Epic" and "Date Movies" than Zucker and Nielsen's truly funny "Naked Gun" series.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cindy gave it a0:
Shoud be a negative 100. It is just so awful. The whole movie theme is just about sex sex and sex. If people want to see sex they might as well watch porn.

Francis C. gave it a10:
I don't know what is with the low rating. I'm with Mikhall on this it was a great and funny movie. I'd watch it again and again. My friends even agree with me. So come on people vote and increase this rating people diserve to know how good this movie is.

Emile F. gave it an8:
A relly funny movie for the Superheros fan. The jokes are very very funny :)

Shawn gave it a7:
True, this movie is bad, but that is the way it is supposed to be. The sole goal of this film is to take a popular movie and rip on it, which this does very well. I found it to be funny, but it obviously won't be nearly as funny if you have not seen the films it parodies.

Mikhail R. gave it an8:
While I admit that SOME of the critisisms of this movie are well-founded, people seem to actually search for critisism rather then watch the movie for what it is. I for example, couldn't crack a frown during the course of the movie even if I tried. The well-positioned gags, personal pot-shots, and never ending satire is absolutely impossible to ignore. I couldn't tell you how many times people gave me evil looks for bursting out in spontanious fits of laughter. I highly reccomend this movie for people who can laugh at random and satirical humor.

Lara B. gave it a1:
Thrown together and horrid. A long time ago, the Weinsteins made good movies. No more.

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