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Superhero Movie

EMAILPRINTDimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM

Superhero Movie reviews
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4.4 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 54 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy

Written by: Craig Mazin

Directed by: Craig Mazin

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 28, 2008
DVD: July 8, 2008

Running Time: 85 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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

Empire Tony Horkins

This super-powered spoof just doesn't fly.

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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

The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 54 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Luke D. gave it a5:
It was okay, its certainly better than 'Meet the Spartans' which is not saying much but still this spoof-movie scores a few laughs.

Harrison F. gave it an8:
The story was quite good, and the comedy was HILARIOUS!

Dallin P. gave it an8:
It is by far the best stupid comedy to come out in the last few years. If you don't like the stupid spoof genre, don't watch this movie. If you do like it, this one is the best since the old Jim Abrahams ones.

Shaun H gave it a0:
Good....Lord..... I honestly don't think I can explain just how bad this film is using words.

Tyler S. gave it a1:
I thought this movie was supposed to be funny, but i wasn't laughing. i thought it was boring and a waste of time and money, please save yourself the anguish and go see something else, anything else!

Rudy S. gave it a0:
Bad. Just bad. This may be the least funny movie in the "parody movie" series, that has really outlived it's welcome.

Ben gave it a4:
Had a couple of genuinely funny gags but a lot of tasteless ones. Could have deviated from the Spiderman storyline just a little bit... Pretty forgettable all up.

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