Superhero Movie: Dragonfly man to the rescue
Added 11/21/2009
4 of 5 stars for the comedy parody Superhero Movie. I love a good parody movie! Any movie with Leslie Nielsen is one that I will enjoy! The main theme is a geeky highschool guy is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly and gains superhero powers. Sound like a famous comic book? Yep. We have the beautiful girlfriend and a bad guy. Lots of bad puns, silly jokes, sight gags and odd-ball humor. My one piece of advise is to carefully watch the background of each scene; often the funny stuff is shown behind the foreground action.
Easy on the brain, funny and entertaining. Worth the watching.
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Keep moving, there's nothing to see here
Added 10/28/2009
When he is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, nerdy kid Rick Riker (played by Drake Bell) becomes a superhero, the Dragonfly. But, things are not easy for the Dragonfly. First of all, he seems to have a readymade archenemy in the form of the Hourglass (Christopher McDonald). Secondly, he has his well-meaning, but incurably clueless, Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielson) helping him out. Can he save the day? Oh boy, don't ask!
OK, where do I start with this one? I have always been a fan of the Zucker comedy films - Airplane, The Naked Gun, and so forth, but by this time the jokes are getting a little thin. There is too much swearing, and the sexuality is grotesquely juvenile and highly embarrassing. To make matters worse, the DVD commits one of my unpardonable sins - it does not allow you to bypass the commercials, disabling the Menu button, and forcing the viewer to Fast Forward through each and every one.
Now, as with all of the films of this genre, this movie does have its Laugh-Out-Loud moments, but not enough to make it more than just tolerable. I wanted to like this movie, I really did, but I just couldn't. So, I am afraid that I have to give it a thumbs-down. Keep moving, there's nothing to see here.
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wan "Airplane" knockoff
Added 8/28/2009
**1/2
The "movie-genre parody" is often the option of last resort for Hollywood screenwriters who`ve run out of inspiration. Having already skewered such popular genres as the disaster movie, the sword-and-sandal epic, romantic comedies, horror films, spy thrillers, crime dramas etc., they now take aim at the "superhero movie," with a flick ingeniously entitled - yea, you guessed it - "Superhero Movie."
In a time span of eighty-minutes that feels more like eight hundred, "Superhero Movie" lumbers from one unfunny joke and sight gag to another, barely taking time out for such apparently dispensable elements as originality or wit. However, in all fairness, one should at least note that writer/director Craig Mazin saves most of his best material - such as it is - for the last half hour.
Drake Bell is the Peter Parker to Sara Paxton's Mary Jane Watson in what is essentially a flatfooted parody of the "Spiderman" franchise, with the nerdy high school student in this case being bitten by a genetically-engineered dragonfly, turning him into the crime-fighting figure known as - what else? - The Dragonfly. The movie also makes the occasional obligatory nod to other comic book adaptations such as "Iron Man," "X-Men" and "Batman Begins," but, since it was released before "The Dark Knight," there is no reference to that landmark work - or to its iconic Joker character - in this film, a real lost opportunity.
We've indeed come a long way from the glory days of "Airplane" (a fact further emphasized by the presence here of David Zucker as co-producer and Leslie Nielson as one of the movie's co-stars), but "Superhero Movie" is substandard even by "Epic Movie/Date Movie" standards.
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superhero movie
Added 7/3/2009
i had just watch yhis movie and it is the best comedy movie, it's is so funny, i would recomend every customer to get this movie.
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ONE OF THE BETTER SPOOF MOVIES!
Added 6/28/2009
'Super Hero Movie' is a much more even entry in the spoof movie genre, but I didn't think there were many really funny moments. Even though many of these spoof films lately have been really bad, they may have had a few scenes that were way funnier than anything in this film. I found this film very watch-able, but there are some really stupid gags in this film too.
One joke in particular seemed really dumb involving Dragon Fly and The Human Torch on top of a building with both super heroes wanting to perch on a gargoyle statue. First off I have read many comic books in my life and I don't remember Johnny Storm ever perching anywhere! I only mention this because the joke involving him is really lame, so putting him in this situation for a laugh doesn't even work. I would have thought Daredevil would have been a better choice and the character's blindness would have been easy to get a quick laugh from.
About 98 percent of this film is a spoof on the Spider-Man films. There are a few (very few) gags involving other super heroes including X-Men, Fantastic Four and Batman, which is a shame because there are so many films in this genre to make fun of and it might have helped this film be funnier. I enjoyed this film because I love super hero films and this film has a better cast than most in this genre.
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