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Super Capers (2009)

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Reviews Counted:17

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Rotten:17

Average Rating:2/10

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for mild language, some rude humor and brief smoking.

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Mar 20, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: Though Justin Whalin may be best known for playing Jimmy Olsen on LOIS & CLARK, the actor gets to wear a cape in this superhero comedy. Ed Gruberman may just be an average guy, but he imagines... Though Justin Whalin may be best known for playing Jimmy Olsen on LOIS & CLARK, the actor gets to wear a cape in this superhero comedy. Ed Gruberman may just be an average guy, but he imagines himself to be a crime-fighting superhero, and that desire lands him in trouble with the law. Forced to enlist in a group of sub-par superheroes, Ed finally gets the chance to join the battle in good versus evil, but it’s not everything he had imagined. SUPER CAPERS also stars Michael Rooker, Jon Polito, HELLBOY’s Doug Jones, and Adam West. [More]

Starring: Justin Whalin, Michael Rooker, Ryan McPartlin, Samuel Lloyd

Starring: Justin Whalin, Michael Rooker, Ryan McPartlin, Samuel Lloyd, Danielle Harris, Ray Griggs, Christine Lakin, Jon Polito, Adam West, June Lockhart, Doug Jones, Tom Sizemore, Clint Howard, Tiny Lister

Director: Ray Griggs

Director: Ray Griggs
Screenwriter: Ray Griggs
Producer: Ray Griggs, Reuben Lim
Composer: Nathan Lanier
Studio: Roadside Attractions

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Jul 21, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • NTSC
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes

Featurette:

  • 1. Behind the Music of SUPER CAPERS

Audio Commentary:

  • 1. Director Ray Griggs

Trailers:

  • 1. SUPER CAPERS Commercials

Making Of:

  • 1. The Making of SUPER CAPERS

Interactive Features:

  • Digital Comic Book

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Even if you manage to suspend your disbelief and to check your brain at the door, Super Capers still feels lazy, dull, painfully juvenile and void of any real thrills, laughs or even unintentionally funny moments.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
03/23/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Slower than a glacier at the South Pole. More powerful than the strongest insomnia cure. Able to empty theaters with a single frame. It's a turkey! It's a Hindenburg! It's Super Capers!

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/01/09
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

[A] woefully toothless send-up of superhero silliness. Indeed, Super Capers is in need of its own creative rescuing.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
04/16/09
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Super Capers begins as a campy tribute to comic book heroes and their 1960s and '70s TV incarnations, but quickly descends into an ineptly paced, toothless lampoon of sci-fi and fantasy films.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
03/20/09
Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times

Nothing here works.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
03/19/09
Graham Killeen
Graham Killeen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

You'd have to have X-ray vision to find a semblance of a plot here, yet you'd have to be blind to overlook the cheapness of the special effects and the ineptitude of the direction.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
03/19/09
Joe Williams
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The movie's only strength is the fabulous comic book/MAD magazine cartoon imagery by humorous illustrator Tom Richmond.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
03/20/09
Keith Cohen
Keith Cohen
Entertainment Spectrum

Featuring the production values of a commercial for a local used-car dealership in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Super Capers is a pathetic grab bag of spoofs.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
03/20/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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A bizarrely misguided attempt to revive -- and spoof -- the classic B-movie, Super Capers is the kind of experience that makes you want your 93 minutes back.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/20/09
Lael Loewenstein
Lael Loewenstein
Variety
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[B]rutally stupid... consistently mistakes wholesale theft -- from beloved geek favorites from Star Wars to Back to the Future to The Matrix -- for creative cleverness...

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
03/22/09
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

This first feature by Ray Griggs wears its Mad Magazine influences like a badge of honor but fails to round up enough laughs to save the day.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
03/19/09
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
03/20/09
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times

Super Capers doesn't ever come close to justifying its existence.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
03/19/09
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

Too much of the time though is wasted with moronic shenanigans and B-level acting by a cast that was obviously hired because they were affordable.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
03/20/09
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Boxoffice Magazine

The first 10 minutes of this mirthless mess was interminable, and it didn’t get any better. I’d feel cheated if I’d rented this one from the red box at Mickey D’s.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
03/20/09
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Superhero comedy is age appropriate but only so-so.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
03/20/09
S. Jhoanna Robledo
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media

A witless send-up of pop-culture detritus like light sabers, Batmobiles and “Hasta la vista, baby."

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
03/19/09
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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