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  • 2011
  • R
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary When sad-sack loser Frank sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a hand-made suit, a wrench, and a crazed sidekick named Boltie, the Crimson Bolt beats his way t...

Directed By: James Gunn

Written By: James Gunn

  • 2011
  • R
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m

Super

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 223 User Ratings
7.8
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Summary When sad-sack loser Frank sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a hand-made suit, a wrench, and a crazed sidekick named Boltie, the Crimson Bolt beats his way t...

Directed By: James Gunn

Written By: James Gunn

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
50
37% Positive
10 Reviews
48% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
50
37% Positive
10 Reviews
48% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
Apr 15, 2011
The libido and bloodlust flowing from the pint-size Page is the funniest thing in the movie, but elsewhere, the mix of the goofy and ghastly is hard to digest.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 30, 2011
It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 223 User Ratings
7.8
75% Positive
167 Ratings
18% Mixed
40 Ratings
7% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 223 User Ratings
7.8
75% Positive
167 Ratings
18% Mixed
40 Ratings
7% Negative
16 Ratings

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  • Mixed Reviews
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10
PeeBrain
Nov 21, 2023
Ce jeu est très mauvais. Très contrôles. Ne pas acheter pour le jeu vidéo. J'ai fait une mauvaise critique. Je donne 10 parce que numéro terrifiant.
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10
Dkapran
Sep 6, 2020
Thats a great movie! A fun and different look at superheroes. And ofc seeing Rainn Wilson in this role is truly the best
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63
Apr 7, 2011
Wilson does amusingly steely work, while Page goes bonkers, giving her gleeful nut job one of the more memorable horselaughs in recent American film history.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 21, 2011
Take "Kick-Ass." Strip it of most of its wit and charm, amp up the violence, the sadism. Make it more crude and coarse and gory. And what you're left with is Super.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 31, 2011
Wilson is basically playing an even more feckless version of his "Office" character, Dwight, another intense and self-deluded doofus. It's a character that works better in smaller doses.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 31, 2011
Where Gunn's last feature "Slither" was an enjoyably icky, funny riff on schlocky horror tropes, the split-personality Super merely repels with half-baked ideas, Wilson's and Page's scorched-earth overacting and atonal bursts of jokey gore.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
20
Mar 29, 2011
Skip this one, even if your hipster significant other whines a blue streak.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
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10
40mangunshot
Jan 3, 2020
One of the best R-rated superhero movies ever! It was brilliant! I believe it was much better than Kickass. I loved it!
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6
imthenoob
Aug 22, 2019
There's a lot more heart in this movie than I originally expected. Wilson does a great job as the lead and Gunn, as always, continues to kill it as a writer/director. It's not necessarily a perfect film (I thought there could have been a bit more character building, there's a severe lack of Kevin Bacon) but it was an enjoyable one.
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6
weirdcryo
Sep 27, 2016
I really liked the movie but there are a lot of problems in the cinematography that really annoyed me through the whole film, in other they were perfectly done but it was hard to remove the bad taste from the bad ones.
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EpicLadySponge
Mar 21, 2016
I don't usually hate on an universal acclaim user score, but when I do, I do it for reasons. Super, on the other hand, has very great animation sequences and that can't save the film from being an instant mess. A dumbed-down mature Kick-Ass which that movie is obviously better.
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MorriBey
May 5, 2011
Best summed up by a reviewer in Variety who said "Waiting for Super to deliver the funny is an experience as long as the film itself. " Take a pass on this one.
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Production Company This Is That Productions, Ambush Entertainment, Cold Iron Pictures, Crimson Bolt
Release Date Apr 1, 2011
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Shut up, crime!
Website https://www.coldironpictures.com/projects
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Awards

Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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