
Passes for a "Movie"...

...but let's be honest here, "Superhero Movie" is really just a series of gags, sex jokes, and farts that share the Superhero theme and are strung together by a gooey bonding substance otherwise known as "scenes" that exist just to set up another joke or one liner. That's probably why it barely clocks in at 80 minutes, but with the shallow feel and lack of true inspiration, the producers may have actually done us a favor by cutting it off early, and frankly "Superhero Movie" feels like it ran out steam by about the 30 minute mark leaving us to endure the rest so it can be called a "movie". How selfish.
I haven't seen the recent rash of "Date Movie", "Epic Movie", "Disaster Movie", and so on because none looked terribly funny to me and they were coming out faster than the films they satired. "Scary Movie" (the first 2 and some of 3) were funny films, in fact I recite many scenes among friends constantly from those films. Spoofs can be very fun. "The Naked Gun" and "Airplane" films are true testaments that straight faced stupidity can still be gut bustingly funny. "Superhero Movie" is not this. It does have moments, it does have a few laughs. I won't pretend that it didn't get smirks out me. Any scene with Leslie Nielsen is worth watching. He knows comedy and can do it with his eyes closed. Jeffrey Tambor shines as the most frustrating and clueless M.D. I've seen in some time. It should be a sign, an omen perhaps, when the supporting crew eclipses, outshines, and makes you forget that the main cast members even exist.
There's no way to logically summarize the plot. Take every scene from every memorable superhero film and they simply redo them, only adding a fart or boob reference. Shameless, shallow attempts to get chuckles; and aside the passive 9 year old child, I don't find many feeling like their 78 minutes were invested well when the credits roll around. "Superhero Movie" is however stylish and very slick for a low budget, 5 week shooting schedule of a junk food film. Give credit when do, then continue to lampoon it.
I can't recomend this. Even to fans of spoofs, or fans of the Superhero genre who might think they will like to see their films made fun of, it's not so much about spoofing superhero films and the stereotypes they possess as oppose to using Superheroes as a medium to display the same crude humor we've seen time and time before. Simply a catalyst; a new paint job for the old Buick. Except not a Buick, more a Renault that rattles on the showroom floor. You know it'll be bad, you know you shouldn't waste your money, but you do anyways and you then kick yourself because it was just as bad as you knew it would be.
That's "Superhero Movie". Looking for satire? Stick with "Scary Movie" or "The Naked Gun", they serve just well. Atleast they have a plot.
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