Superhero Movie

Venue - GSC Pavilion

Ate - Free 'Freaking' Popcorn Yeahhh

Just looking at the movie poster, you know that things are off to a bad start. There hasn’t really been a good spoof movie for quite sometime. But hey, its not supposed to be heavy, only light hearted right?

Dating was never easy for Vertical man

The essence of the movie follows Spiderman’s storyline with a few insertions from Batman as well as the Fantastic Four. The main dude, Rick Riker (played by Drake Bell, you may know him from Nickelodeon’s The Drake and Josh Show) is on a science project tour where instead of being bitten by a spider, he’s bitten by a dragonfly. Not long after he starts to develop supernatural powers such as super strength, moving faster than a speeding bullet and being able to breakdance on walls. His enemy for this movie is a super villain named Hour Glass, who needs to suck the living soul out of people in order to prolong his own life.

The only good thing that came out of this movie was the free popcorn coupon that I got from this random guy. I have to admit that I was expecting quite a bit from this movie (namely humour) but it is sadly a very big letdown. Not since the days of The Naked Gun trilogy, Hot Shots! or more recently the Scary Movie phenomena has there really been a good spoof movie. The movie contains a lot of fart jokes, toilet humour and funny name characters but fails to impress. Perhaps it’s the fact that making fun of superhero movies isn’t really as funny as making fun of horror theme movies or slasher movies. In those films we tend to be scared and are at the edge of our seats hence making fun of movies such as The Ring, War of the Worlds and Scream would offer a light hearted experience. It came to a point when I was actually counting the funny moments and that can only be bad news. They didn’t really need to go out of their way to insert every single movie in this film but more or less just concentrate on actually making it funny. It got a bit congested after a while, of which my mind was deliberating on what I could have done with my money instead.

mmmm.. this movie sucks

The movie is a joke, but not a good joke. At one point you would be screaming for the humour to stop as you try your best to hold back your tears (not joy). Superhero Movie can be safely put into the category of movies which you won’t admit to watching.

Sling bags are always trendy at the movies

Still, was lucky enough to be graced with the presence of resident mobiedick contributor Zaki Abdul Rahman aka ZKZ. Look forward to seeing you back here again man.

Rating – 0.5/5

As bad as – A Lucky Pierre.