Superhero Movie
Superhero Movie's star, Dragonfly (Drake Bell, Drake & Josh), has posters from Antonioni's Blowup and...
Superhero Movie's star, Dragonfly (Drake Bell, Drake & Josh), has posters from Antonioni's Blowup and Malick's Badlands on his wall, the allusions to which only reinforce what a dud the parody flick really is. A nearly plotless string of fart jokes and some guy banging his head against a wall should (please!) be the final instalment in the seemingly endless series of Scary, Date and Epic flicks. Craig Mazin (The Specials; wrote the 'scripts' for classics like Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4) directs here, torturing the audience with the completely unfunny story of a teenager who develops super powers after being bitten by a dragonfly. This premise delivers an excuse for parodies of Spider-Man, Batman and X-Men, each of which is so unredemptively horrible that they make Batman & Robin feel like Taxi Driver. Even when the flick steals its gags from earlier movies - a surprisingly wise move, considering they worked once - they fall flat here; the gags from The Naked Gun and its sequels, which delivered good laughs the first time around, just do not work when acted out by this completely untalented crew. The four or five decent jokes the film does contain are simply not enough to justify 85 minutes of tedious, boring tripe. This movie somehow sucks even more than its spin-off, parody cousins; it's a film which not only will bore every audience member with any sense to tears, but also one which will literally make his or her life poorer for having seen it.
