Superhero Movie | REVIEW

Movies cannot get any lamer than Superhero Movie. The 'Movie' series and its other productions have gone on for so long that 99.9% of people are sick and tired of seeing this spoof s**t repeat itself every year. This year alone, we've seen (unfortunately) Meet The Spartans, Superhero Movie, and have yet to endure another bag of crap entitled 'Disaster Movie'. Don't get me wrong, folks, I used to enjoy these spoofs right up to Scary Movie 4. Yeah, they were literally stupid flicks but they were stupid enough to be funny. Then Date Movie Epic Movie, and Meet The Spartans came out, all of which reeked of horse sh*t, followed by other complete flops. On to this review.

Superhero Movie is basically a spoof of the first Spidey film. Why they took so fu*kin' long to spoof the first Spider-Man is beyond me; it's not like they're actually putting effort into their scripts. What is this, The Departed? There's a young kid who gets bitten by a dragonfly, becomes the Dragonfly, and then tries to be a superhero. Yay, funny, hardy-har-har, right? Wrong! Superhero Movie is a movie that tries to be a spoof, just like how it tries to be funny. We're treated to an overdose of pointless and overall weirdly disturbing slapstick humor that can hardly be classified as humor at all. Fart jokes? Funny noises? Falling down tall buildings and talking while in mid-air? Are we in Charlie Chaplin era here? I was watching this flick and thinking to myself, "Are you effin' serious?" Apparently they were not, and I don't think they were even serious when they were writing the screenplay for this. It's like they took out a pen, some toilet paper, jotted down some seemingly funny instances, and then used the money that they made out of past flicks and turned their 'script' into this pile of horribleness that we now call Superhero Movie. I never expected anything to get worse and / or more boring than Epic Movie, but hey, Meet The Spartans showed us who they were and whatya' know...Superhero Movie rules the land of Flop City.

You're probably sensing some anger in me right now, eh? I am angry. Angry that I wasted 90 minutes on this s**t. Driving my car around in circles for 90 minutes would've been a better thing to do. Sleeping would have been a better choice, even.

Alright...in all fairness, Superhero Movie has the ability to make you laugh once. Or twice. Or maybe three or four times, total. Not because it's genuinely funny comedy, but because it's so effin' stupid that you're either laughing at yourself for buying tickets OR you just don't know how to react to what's on screen. Note, I love spoofs. I enjoy them. They could have used this movie to spoof so many things and actually make people laugh at their favorite superheroes. Instead, they decided to be retards. For some reason, Leslie Neilson keeps coming back to these movies. Maybe it's because he owes them the fame he received from Naked Gun but hey, Naked Gun was in fact very funny. To be honest, the dude was even funny in Scary Movie 3, and 4. Maybe not Steve Carell funny or Jim Carrey funny or Ed Helmes funny, but if you allow yourself to be silly, you will laugh at the Scary Movie...ermm...movies. In the case of Superhero Movie, you can't allow yourself to be silly because all the while, you're trying to hold that anger in so that you don't stand up and gut the guy in the front row for some reason. I wasn't sure if this movie applied to different people with a different sense of humor, so I checked around a bit and to my relief, everyone I spoke to did NOT enjoy Superhero Movie...at all. So there you go, I actually conducted my own lil' survey for my satisfaction and yours.
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Wrap : I give Superhero Movie a 0.6 out of 5.0. I'd say if you still wanna' watch this thing, watch it when it's on TV and you're at home, sick, and have NOTHING better to do.