Its not that bad - Superhero Movie (2008) Discussion

[–] travismckellar 15 years ago

I also thought that it wasn't that bad. I have never seen Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie, etc. but I thought that this could've been much worse.

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[–] VicRattlehead50 15 years ago

I agree, there weren't endless pop culture references and some of the jokes were actually very funny.

"Have you ever noticed how men always leave the toilet seat up? That's the joke."

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[–] im-weasel-819-592057 12 years ago

Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie etc. had a major lack: David Zucker!! it's a seal of quality for comedies and spoofs...
(I've also read on wikipedia that Zucker wanted to call this movie just "Superhero!", in his own style)

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[–] vinnieavenue 15 years ago

I agree, it was enjoyable for what it is.

**Accio Harry's virginity!**

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[–] Fluffis 15 years ago

Just watched it, and it wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. There were some genuinely funny scenes, though most of it was a bit too cheap. The nail gun scene was pretty funny, and the beginning of the Thanksgiving dinner had some really nice details.

"Ah-ah, not until we say grace."
"Jesus!"
*chorus* "Amen."

Quidquid Latinae dictum sit, altum viditur.

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[–] killian_d 15 years ago

Sujperhero movie is at least watchable

"All people are born alike... except Republicans & Democrats" Groucho Marx

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[–] St_alex 15 years ago

I thought it was from the Epic Movie and Disaster Movie guys, but then I found out it wasn't and actually watched it. Most of it is hit and miss, but it made me laugh like Scary Movie did. It's ridiculous, but not idiotic.
Probly like 5.5/10

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[–] TheUltimateMovieFreak 15 years ago

Yeah it's watchable. Not as genious as a ZAZ parody, but much better than "Epic Movie", "Date Movie", "Disaster Movie" and all this new stuff.

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[–] ThatJacketGuy 13 years ago

It actually is a ZAZ parody. Well... a Z parody. I felt it was en par with the Naked Gun sequels. Not the Naked Gun though, that is very brilliant, though Superhero Movie (in my opinion) is the best modern spoof movie. MODERN spoof movie, as in... post-95.

I find now that whenever I watch Spider-Man, Superhero Movie flashes in my mind (specifically when Spider-Man dodges the Goblin's dart things, and when Dragonfly tries the same against the hourglass and ends up getting hit with all of them as a result). Overall, I feel the reason critics bashed it so much, is due to decisions by the studio, because Craig Mazin and David Zucker originally had a movie almost as good as the classics, and then the studio meddled in their affairs.

I want Zucker to get back to making more Naked Gun or Airplane! style spoofs, like this one. Parodies a main film with small, more subtle and fitting parodies throughout, rather than the Scary Movie style that just shows parodies of any horror movie regardless they make sense together or not. Or even worse, the Seltzer/Freidburg movies which don't even make jokes, they just *show* stuff that happened in other movies or in pop culture. ("Oh, no, not those douchebags from Jersey Shore." Shows cast from Jersey Shore. Hurr hurr.)

Great Superhero Movie line:
(at the funeral)
"We are here today to say goodbye."
(everyone in unison) "Goodbye!"

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[–] Phobophile 14 years ago

I avoided this movie the first time around because I absolutely can't stand the Friedberg and Seltzer "comedies" and expected this to be similar. I finally caught this last night on TV and I have to say, some bits had me in tears laughing. Sure it's silly and dumb, but it's also very funny in places and the parodies are actually done well.

The Tom Cruise bit had me cracking up as did the dinner scene, and Keith David's "what Empire City needs is more cops... and a Hooters" line was hilarious.

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[–] fabian5003 12 years ago

OMG the guy who played Tom Cruise was great!!!! The voice, the look, everything!!!!

"Hamburgers, the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast."

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[–] rainbowclimbinghigh 14 years ago

I agree, it could have been much worse, like Epic Movie (God, I hated that one. I mean, the guys who made it seemed to have thought "It doesn't matter whether or not the movie has a storyline, we just need to include as many movies as we can.")

Yes, their choice of Super Villan was really good!

R~O
TEAM EDWARD!!!
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" - St. Trinian's (2007)

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[–] sharkmanface 14 years ago

Finally, more ppl. who agree w/ me on this movie. It WAS funny and actually had good acting from the actors, I think the kid in the movie, the main one who becomes Dragonfly, has really good facial expressions for seeing something weird, eg the crazy editor, the line about Hooters, ect. And you can never go wrong w/ Leslie Nelson. This one I feel is much better than the crap their trying to pass of for 'funny' spoof movies nowadays.

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