![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before you can say "shazam," he's climbing walls and dazzling the citizens of Empire City as the Spandex-clad Dragonfly, a superhero who can do everything except fly.ĭirector Craig Mazin wrote the script, making this as close to an auteur film as these movies ever get, and one of the producers is David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame. You don't mind much until the comic inspiration runs dry halfway through.Īn anything-goes spoof of the "Spider-Man," "Batman," "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" movies - but mostly "Spider-Man" - "Superhero Movie" tells the tale of Rick Riker (Drake Bell of Nickelodeon's "Drake and Josh"), a 98-pound high school weakling bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly during a school trip. ![]() Like its forebears, "Superhero Movie" delivers generic-brand Mad Magazine yuks, the broader and smuttier, the better. This could be the first iComedy.Īs such, it's not terrible - splattery business as usual from the folks who gave us the "Scary Movie" franchise. How can you tell the target age for "Superhero Movie" is exactly 13 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.įacebook, MySpace, YouTube and everything Apple come in for fond lumps, and when a character says "You're no longer in my Five," it's a giggle for anyone 20 or younger and crickets for everyone else. ![]()
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