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Superstar (1999)

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Reviews Counted:71

Fresh:23

Rotten:48

Average Rating:4.5/10

Consensus: Dumb script and flat jokes made this another SNL misfire.

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: All schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon) wants in life is a kiss. Not just any kiss, mind you — a big-time, hold-your-breath-‘til-you-think-you’re-going-to-faint, bona fide... All schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon) wants in life is a kiss. Not just any kiss, mind you — a big-time, hold-your-breath-‘til-you-think-you’re-going-to-faint, bona fide Hollywood-style kiss. But no matter how hard she tries, no one will kiss her. And then it hits her. Mary Katherine realizes the only way she is ever going to get what she wants is to become just like the people she sees getting those kisses in the movies. When Catholic Teen Magazine sponsors a talent contest at her school — along with a grand prize of a free trip to Hollywood and the chance to be an extra in a movie with positive moral values — she sees the opportunity to make her dreams come true. After all, everyone wants to kiss you when you’re a Superstar! [More]

Starring: Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendrix, Harland Williams

Starring: Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendrix, Harland Williams, Mark McKinney, Glynis Johns

Director: Bruce McCulloch

Director: Bruce McCulloch
Screenwriter: Steve Koren
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Composer: Michael Gore

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Former Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch proves an able director.

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Steve Simels
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Superstar will rank closer to Wayne's World than It's Pat or Roxbury. In Saturday Night Live terms, that constitutes a masterpiece.

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Superstar is, surprisingly, not awful.

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Sue Pierman
Sue Pierman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Mary Katherine's best suited for the small screen, so wait for the video.

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Susan Stark
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Detroit News
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About as funny as an oozing fever blister.

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Susan Wloszczyna
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Just picture an SNL skit that doesn't know when to end, with no musical guest or at least a few commercials to break up the monotony, and you begin to get the idea.

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Thom Bennett
Thom Bennett
Film Journal International

Simply stated, there's not a movie's worth of story here.

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Tom Maurstad
Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News

The overall posture of the film is that we are just watching lots of five-minute bits strung together around an inane plot and irritating characters.

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Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Citadel Broadcasting

Jeez, I was yearning to leave after less than five minutes watching the spectacularly annoying, thirty-something Molly Shannon flounce around as an adolescent social misfit.

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As SNL women go, only Gilda Radner seemed as willing to rib so much of herself for our pleasure.

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