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One of the best superhero movies


This is a great superhero movie, I wish that it had a sequel. It is pretty funny at times, really funny actually. I saw it at the drive in and I loved it back in 1999 and I think it gets better with each viewing. It was ahead of its time.

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I always found it to be a very clever and well written parody of superhero movies that was probably before it's time. It sickens me how underrated this movie is and I think the people who hate it probably missed the point. I lose it every time I watch the scene where Shoveler says "We need a guy who can shoot stinging foam that can blind you" or something like that. The fact that these guys are wannabe superheroes with ridiculous and uncreative "powers" is hilarious.

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It is pretty funny how this movie satirizes a genre almost ten years before the genre exploded. Heck, X-Men hadn't even come out yet.

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