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Superhero Movie
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33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    58
    Undiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    50
    How can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jason Anderson
    50
    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.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    50
    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.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    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.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    42
    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.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    40
    By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.
  8. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Felix Vasques Jr.
    40
    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."
  9. Empire
    Reviewed by: Tony Horkins
    40
    This super-powered spoof just doesn't fly.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    40
    The gags are consistently weak, though actor Miles Fisher turns in a hair-raising impression of Tom Cruise.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    30
    Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    30
    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.
  13. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    It's a tonally confused comedy which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.
  14. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    0
    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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4.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 72 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 31
  3. Negative: 11 out of 31
  1. luffyy
    10
    This film is the greatest comedy movie I've seen. It's so funny, I can't stop laughing. If you like a kind of that comedy, don't miss this movie. Believe me!… Full Review »
  2. MichaelD
    8
    The best spoof movie I ever watched.
  3. HarrisonF.
    8
    The story was quite good, and the comedy was HILARIOUS!
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