Despite a few amusing moments, this underwhelming spoof is strictly direct-to-video material.
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03/31/08
Superhero Movie! (2008)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:7
Rotten:41
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Superhero Movie is not the worst of the spoof genre, but relies on tired gags and lame pop culture references all the same.
Theatrical Release:Mar 28, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $25,815,447
Synopsis: In this spoof of Hollywood blockbusters, director and screenwriter Craig Mazin (THE SPECIALS) tackles the age-old story of a regular guy who suddenly finds that he possesses super powers. Ricky... [More]
Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart
Director: Craig Mazin
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Reviews for Superhero Movie!
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.
03/31/08
Top CriticIt's a bit late in the game for Superhero Movie, which was never going to fly, and barely crawls.
03/31/08
Top CriticUnfortunately, the film has nothing remotely interesting or satirical to say about the genre it is spoofing, so there is little to hold your attention between the gags, which do not arrive at the rapid-fire clip necessary to sustain the laughter ...
07/04/08
Superhero Movie would make a decent long-form short on the "Funny or Die" website, but at 85 minutes -- 15 of which are outtake-heavy end credits -- its powers of amiability wear off fast.
03/29/08
Top CriticNothing in Superhero Movie could be described as magical, but for comic-book fans in a forgiving mood, this lowbrow outing has its moments. [Blu-ray]
12/28/08
Contrary to popular belief, it does take a level of talent to tell puke and fart jokes well, and that seems to be one of Craig Mazin's talent, for whatever it's worth.
03/28/08
Two laughs does not a decent comedy make.
03/30/08
What's supposed to be a spoof of all the comic-book movies clogging theaters turns out to be an unfunny retread of the first Spider-Man.
03/28/08
Writer-director and Scary Movie vet Craig Mazin's script is so devoid of anything even remotely funny that the movie is more a cheap rip-off of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man franchise than a spoof.
03/29/08
Superhero Movie should be taken as a well-meaning but ultimately uneven lesson in how to handle future parodies.
04/02/08
This parody film plagiarizes Spider-Man to virtually laughless effect.
06/12/08
There are a few lively bits, and one joke with an edge: a slap at Stephen Hawking and his computer-drone voice. Mostly, though, this is super-lame.
04/02/08
Top CriticA slap in the face with a smirk. This isn't the fun it ought to be.
06/06/08
70 minutes of good if unmemorable fun sure beats 80 or 90 minutes of excruciating parodies for dummies, a la Date Movie and Epic Movie.
03/29/08
Top CriticSuper? No. But it's not bad.
03/28/08
This super-powered spoof just doesn't fly.
06/05/08
It looks for all the world as if writer/director Craig Mazin took the screenplay for Spider-Man, propped it up next to his MacBook, and just went through it, inserting fart gags, pratfalls and the lamest of jokes.
03/31/08
Top CriticEssentially a retread of every bad grade-school joke you're happy to have forgotten.
03/31/08
The gags are consistently weak.
03/29/08
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