Ye gods. Here comes another spoof movie, from the writer of Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 (He...
Ye gods. Here comes another spoof movie, from the writer of Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 (He hasn’t been stuck in a rut there, no, not at all). This time everything from Batman Begins to The Fantastic Four is in his targets (Um, wasn't that last one already a colossal joke?).
The story follows high school loser Rick Riker, who gets bitten by a dragonfly and develops superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armoured skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as 'The Dragonfly'. He soon finds himself fighting his nemesis 'The Hourglass'.
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16 %51 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
32 %157,125 reviewsAudience score rating
15+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"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."
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Variety
Variety"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."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"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."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash."
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LA Weekly
LA Weekly"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."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"The fast-paced combination of visual and verbal japery feels like a throwback to that golden age of spoofing 25 to 30 years ago."
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Christchurch Press
Christchurch PressSuperhero Movie | Details
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- USA
