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Superhero Movie
EMAILPRINTDimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
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)
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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...
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Undiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.”
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The gags are consistently weak, though actor Miles Fisher turns in a hair-raising impression of Tom Cruise.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's a tonally confused comedy which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
