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.
Super Capers (2009)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:0
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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Release:
Jul 21, 2009
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
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos:
- 1. Original Storyboards
Reviews for Super Capers
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!
[A] woefully toothless send-up of superhero silliness. Indeed, Super Capers is in need of its own creative rescuing.
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.
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.
The movie's only strength is the fabulous comic book/MAD magazine cartoon imagery by humorous illustrator Tom Richmond.
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.
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.
[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...
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.
Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe.
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.
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.
A witless send-up of pop-culture detritus like light sabers, Batmobiles and “Hasta la vista, baby."
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