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Merrick here...
SilentWar sent in a look at SUPERHERO MOVIE...which (surprisingly enough) we've been hearing consistently positive things about.
You can see a trailer for it HERE - the movie opens on March 28.
Here's SilentWar...
It seems like such a long time ago that I considered the spoof comedy to be a real treat, the kind of movie that I would eagerly anticipate. The Naked Gun, Airplane, Hot Shots, Top Secret... these were fun, fun movies. Newer attempts at the genre like Don't Be a Menace and High School High have their flaws but their hearts were in the right place. This was a genre that, to me, seemed pretty bulletproof.
Then something really tragic happened. Some people with no real appreciation or understanding of the genre came along and put out some truly awful movies. These were so bad and so completely clueless about the ground they were treading on that, somehow, all of the good work that had been done before seemed to recede into the mists of time, leaving only the Epic Movies and Date Movies to take a huge shit on all of my goodwill towards parody movies.
Superhero Movie is a step back in the right direction, away from the mindless pop culture aping and cripplingly unfunny jokes that dog Meet The Spartans, modern cinema's equivalent of being waterboarded. Superhero Movie is sharp, smart enough when it has to be and hysterical most of the time.
Rick Riker is a nerdy kid who gets bitten by a radioactive dragonfly. He falls in love with The Girl and does battle with The Hourglass, who needs to suck the lifeblood out of one person each day in order to live. Along the way Riker visits a school for the (non-asian) gifted, has flashbacks to his mother and father getting robbed and killed, and saves the day.
So... Spiderman, Batman Begins and X-Men.
I'd argue that superhero movies are almost parody-proof, that the situations and reality's of these movies are, by and large, so fantastical that trying to shine a light on their ridiculousness is pointless. We get it. What's funny in Superhero Movie isn't so much someone directing their biting wit against the genre's conventions, but rather Craig Mazin, writer and director, taking the events of recent superhero movies and putting his own crazy spin on them.
This is a funny, funny movie. Drake Bell does a good job of playing a Peter Parker one-off without actually aping Tobey Maguire's performance much. Leslie Nielsen, playing Riker's guardian Uncle, is, of course, great, a master of this kind of comedy, having fun with what he has to do. Jeffrey Tambor makes hay with his few lines, always a pleasure to watch.
Chris MacDonald plays Hourglass with a really cool overzealous charm. I wouldn't say this is his best work but it's definitely one of his most enjoyable to watch.
The movie has it's mis-steps. There's a gag with a Johnny Storm one-off that is pretty much D.O.A., as well as a few other moments, but these are more of a temporary thing, not a movie ender. The ship doesn't sink.
Parody, when done to perfection, can be great because it works as social and popular culture commentary, showing us how absurd things really are. Superhero Movie really isn't that, and it isn't great. It is a mostly hilarious movie, though, and I would recommend it not only as a good time at the movies but also as a detox agai` nst all those awful parody (in name only) movies we've had to slog through.
It seems like such a long time ago that I considered the spoof comedy to be a real treat, the kind of movie that I would eagerly anticipate. The Naked Gun, Airplane, Hot Shots, Top Secret... these were fun, fun movies. Newer attempts at the genre like Don't Be a Menace and High School High have their flaws but their hearts were in the right place. This was a genre that, to me, seemed pretty bulletproof.
Then something really tragic happened. Some people with no real appreciation or understanding of the genre came along and put out some truly awful movies. These were so bad and so completely clueless about the ground they were treading on that, somehow, all of the good work that had been done before seemed to recede into the mists of time, leaving only the Epic Movies and Date Movies to take a huge shit on all of my goodwill towards parody movies.
Superhero Movie is a step back in the right direction, away from the mindless pop culture aping and cripplingly unfunny jokes that dog Meet The Spartans, modern cinema's equivalent of being waterboarded. Superhero Movie is sharp, smart enough when it has to be and hysterical most of the time.
Rick Riker is a nerdy kid who gets bitten by a radioactive dragonfly. He falls in love with The Girl and does battle with The Hourglass, who needs to suck the lifeblood out of one person each day in order to live. Along the way Riker visits a school for the (non-asian) gifted, has flashbacks to his mother and father getting robbed and killed, and saves the day.
So... Spiderman, Batman Begins and X-Men.
I'd argue that superhero movies are almost parody-proof, that the situations and reality's of these movies are, by and large, so fantastical that trying to shine a light on their ridiculousness is pointless. We get it. What's funny in Superhero Movie isn't so much someone directing their biting wit against the genre's conventions, but rather Craig Mazin, writer and director, taking the events of recent superhero movies and putting his own crazy spin on them.
This is a funny, funny movie. Drake Bell does a good job of playing a Peter Parker one-off without actually aping Tobey Maguire's performance much. Leslie Nielsen, playing Riker's guardian Uncle, is, of course, great, a master of this kind of comedy, having fun with what he has to do. Jeffrey Tambor makes hay with his few lines, always a pleasure to watch.
Chris MacDonald plays Hourglass with a really cool overzealous charm. I wouldn't say this is his best work but it's definitely one of his most enjoyable to watch.
The movie has it's mis-steps. There's a gag with a Johnny Storm one-off that is pretty much D.O.A., as well as a few other moments, but these are more of a temporary thing, not a movie ender. The ship doesn't sink.
Parody, when done to perfection, can be great because it works as social and popular culture commentary, showing us how absurd things really are. Superhero Movie really isn't that, and it isn't great. It is a mostly hilarious movie, though, and I would recommend it not only as a good time at the movies but also as a detox agai` nst all those awful parody (in name only) movies we've had to slog through.
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Of course it sucks ass.
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and with the exception of the professor x wife snatching pam anderson's weave bit, the previews didn't look god awful. at least not in the same formula as the last few "... - MOVIE"s.
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make me already hate this movie and no positive review is going to change my mind that I will never subject myself to this shit
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They have the same poster theme like Scary Movie. Plus this reviewer seems to lack any knowledge of the Pegg and Wright combo.
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Kent Mansley. I work for the government.
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Ever since I had the unfortunateness of sitting through Epic Movie I swore off any new parody movies, but the previews for this one actually look semi decent. With the exception of the Tom Cruise bit and the bit with Pam Anderson which make it seem as though we're not entirely out of the pop culture reference or sassy black person as comedy boat just yet, but for the most part the movie looks more like a step in the right direction. Not worth a full $8.50, but easily a matinee viewing. -
..are how you do spoofs. They make fun of aspects of both genres whilst still being decent examples of the genre themselves.
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well better get that one out of the way, skip over the waste of more SUBGENRE MOVIEs and just get it over with. I seriously hate studio execs who think trite like this is "cool".
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I didn't even have my sound up. Great slapstick-injury comedy at its best. Leslie Nielsen is the god of that, and after Spidey 3 the genre needs a good bashing
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This can't possibly be watchable, can it?
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Wait for it to come out on DVD and Netflix it if no other movie is available.
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Why can't they think up their own plot and characters? Was that too difficult? Will audiences' not 'get' the joke unless it's being forced down their throats "look look, it's sipderman! but we've added scenes of him falling over!that means it's funny!"
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...because if not, and Superhero Movie is good, I'm fairly certain the clock just hit midnight on humanity.
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Shooter Mcgaven...I eat turds like you for breakfast..Anywho, the great thing about Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun..the ZAZ films, that these recent efforts try to emulate..is that they poke fun at the conventions and cliches of those particular genres. The airline disaster, Elvis/WW 2 spy flick mashup, the detective film. They would parody certain scenes like Saturday Night Fever and From Here To Eternity in Airplane, but those were few and far between. Now its recreating whole scenes and plots of recent hits but adding a wacky reference or sight gag. What used to be a MAD parody has become a CRACKED parody.
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Mar 19, 2008 11:20:12 AM CDT
Sorry, not seeing it after that STUPID "I got your weave!!" crap
by xian042
Its just more unfunny CRAP. I'm all set.
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... but a movie slightly less shitty than absolute shitbombs (Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans) does not make it good, just like fewer people dying and getting blown up in Iraq than the shittiest month in Iraq (or the deficit or number of foreclosures not being the all-time worst) does not equal 'success.'
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Then to a worse fate.
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I weep for the English language and the entire concept of intelligent artistic expression.
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It's got more going for it.
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That crusty whore's "career" is so tired and unfunny at this point that the very sight of him makes me angry. And piss on this movie; we all know it will suck.
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And this is comning from a guy who had quite a good time at Doomsday!
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I wish you were right...I predict a 23 mill opening weekend, then a quick death.
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If you have any kind of thought like "It's not soooo bad...this movie is pretty funny!" running through your head when seeing this shit I wanna know how you keep from bleeding to death with your knuckles dragging on the ground all day long
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I would be AMAZED if this turned out to be anything more a steaming pile of elephant shit! Drake Bell had absolutely no personality in person, and Craig Mazin was a glorified tool. Everyone working on this movie was miserable, and I just can't wrap my head around this being any good at all. Literally the shit I saw was reminiscent of masterpieces like Epic Movie, not Naked Gun.
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...remember the time I was watching [insert movie genre here] Movie?
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I think that movie theaters should be forced to release securtiy footage of every person who goes to see this movie and the other beyond stupid movies like Epic Movie, etc. These images should be posted in the papers or online, so the general public knows what jackasses went to see this, thus creating the possibility of more of these horrible "movies" in the near future. We then know who to blame.
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The Oz government fucked up with the incentives and if it does get made it won't be here/Oz. Probably Canada then I guess. Miller's ticked off.
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...'cause this is a total PLANT.
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A movie that satirizes the conventions of horrible spoof movies (i.e. recreating recent blockbuster scenes VERBATIM, doing sendups of YouTube clips, the "sassy" ohnoyoudi'int black caricature, ect.).
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I'll download the movie illegally and get back to you on this.
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I mean, besides the "it mostly sucking" part?
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this has about as much potential as "the comebacks"
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Shenanigans!
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will always be cool because of his fucking awesome work in Iron Giant
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Mar 19, 2008 12:38:29 PM CDT
Then does it mean that all the worst moments were selected for t
by stalin vs predator
Because if you saw the trailer, you know
Yes, I know that sometimes morons can make a horrible trailer out of a great film (that "Lord of War" trailer, for instance - the one that said "hi, I'm a moronic shoot'em up movie, Seagal's fans rejoice!"...), but still... this had all the smell of "target audience = viewers of Epic Movie and The Spartans". -
The Tom Cruise joke was kind of funny. "I can fly." "I eat planets." He's an easy target I know but it's still pretty funny.
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Mar 19, 2008 12:59:48 PM CDT
And highbrow intellectuals will like anything that's..
by reel american hero
Intellectual and makes them feel smarter than other people whom they then mock with their other smart friends at starbucks/Barnes And Noble whilst sipping on overpriced coffee. So what? -
I'd like to say that I'm amazed that people keep throwing money at stupid shit like this, but I'm not. These pieces of dogshit must cost next to nothing to make and at the end of the day, after DVD, they must turn a bit of profit. All which makes this more depressing. I am amazed people will plunk down $10 to see this crap. This shit is just not that funny. Movies like Airplane!, History of the World Pt. 1, Young Frankenstein & Naked Gun had their fair share of groaners, but at least they were fucking funny. This stupid shit makes me cry for the youth of this country.
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Really? Where? Because when I go, I only see the creepy guy next the magazine racks reading Guns & Ammo.
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Then you can count on seeing ME... in the parking lot!
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Shooter MCgavin. G-Dammit!
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Why are movies like this getting made? Because people see them? Then stop seeing them! Send Hollywood a message.
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the previews showed much more heart.
I love the gag when the girlputs her hand on the hero's face and the glove sticks. a good gag, that isn't some painful pop culture joke. -
And I don't care who knows it.
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Was 'Not Another Teen Movie'. And that's because it followed what those other great parodies did before it. It had a full blown PLOT first. And then added the extra comedy moments.
The first trailer for this movie actually looked good. The old lady going through the wood chipper while the dog on the leash is being pulled in slowly... Classic. But the new stuff with Mrs. Prof.X pulling on the hair of the Invisible woman... Not as funny. I think I'll hold off before I give out money for this one. -
You know it's coming. With Hollywood on this kick of remaking movies, it won't be long until some lame brain comes up the idea to remake "Airplane" and parody all those disaster movies that have occurred since its release.
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To quote Harry's upcoming review.
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20185191,00.html (remove spaces)
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His last album was awesome!
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Spoof movies haven't been funny since the 80's, so I don't think any studio right now is willing to break with tradition and actually make one that's funny again. We have a better chance of chuckling during an SNL skit. Place your bets.
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There's something you could actually make a halfway-decent spoof of. The CORRECT way to make a spoof movie is to play something as deadly serious as the original does, then take a left turn at the end and I imagine you could make some pretty amusing dance sequences. No disrespect to dancers, but they do take themselves pretty seriously and that lends itself to parody.
Having said that, I don't think Superhero Movie looks THAT great. And sometimes Epic Movie is on the TV at work and I am just blown away by how fucking unfunny it is. I am literally unable to understand how someone could pay money to see Epic Movie and be in any way satisfied with what they got. It's so unfunny it makes you regret ever laughing in your life, and never want to again. -
Someone is getting a kickback to push this steamy turd
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Hey now!
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WHEN IS HE GOING TO MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE? Not another teen movie is by far the best parody movie as of recent. This dudes been stuck in TV hell, though he has directed some funny shit, like the Matrix Reloaded thingy with Stifler.
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Is that guy still alive?
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the guy is sooooooooooo fucking old you honestly can't blame him for forgetting how to read and rate the scripts that come his way.....Alzheimer's(sp?) is a horribly debilitating disease, and regardless of whether or not he has it, he can't be held accountable for the shit his agent actually brings to him....how much work actually get's pushed his way anymore? I'm sure the scripts are just overflowing at his retirement home....anyway..the point is... his medications are giving the performances for him, he has to pay his old person bills...Leslie Gotta Eat.(and apparently outlive Moses!)
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We're all counting on you.
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We need a final Naked Gun! You can do a lot of Casino Royale parodies.
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Saw it last night at a press screening at the Century City AMC. For some reason, I had higher expectations going into it. I think I read a fake review on here talking about how finally we get a spoof film that was more then just pop culture references and that they had some substance to them. Nope, this was just like the last two Scary Movies, or Epic Movie, or Date Movie. But good job TWC, for issuing some plant reviews getting me to actually expect something decent. Another reason I thought we would be in for something special is because the writer, is actually a good writer, just take a look at his blog: http://artfulwriter.com/ I keep getting fooled though, for some reason I thought the quality of his writing would bleed into his script this time, but no, he still writes down to us, but I don't blame him. When he writes down to us, it proves very lucrative, just take a look at his credits on www.boxofficemojo.com Anyway, despite what I say, the film did have some decent gags, a few of them, but wow, it so doesn't make up for the rest of it. Directingwise, I'm tired of actors being given zero business when they are the butt of a sight gag. Gag spoilers ahead**** but don't worry, they're nothing you haven't seen before. Some big hairy dude gets his shirt ripped off and his mantits exposed at a science fair but it's just awkward the way he just stands there, frozen in his place, as to not distract us from the "hilarious" sight gag. Please directors, start directing your actors, at least give them some business. Speaking of this big hairy guy, he's also the punchline to an earlier gag where the main character (already forgot his name) returns to the window where he say spying on the Mary Jane character (already forgot her name) except he comes back to the wrong window and he spies on the big hairy guy massaging his manbreasts. Look, I understand that kneejerks gags are a staple of these kinds of films but fine, I'll accept it. However, If the guy massaging his own breasts is located as far from the Mary Jane character's room as the distance between the two windows in the Peter Parker's character's room, then what, they live in the same house? What is that man doing in her house? Is that her dad? Or some relative? I know there's no need for continuity in these types of films but c'mon, when are we going to get a spoof film that transcends its genre? At least make some throwaway reference to the guy being her father or boarder or something. Maybe make it at the sci-fair, just something. Why does this film have to be as moronic as the last few, oh, because they're so lucrative! Maybe the building is a duplex and Mary Jane and the big fat hairy guy are just neighbors, still, acknowledge it somehow. Give us a sense of some continuity that the other movies in this sub-genre deny us. Another thing, I'm getting tired of all the leftover gags that had no place in the film being strung out during the end credits, sometimes blocking the end credits, as if the filmmakers are thinking "we paid for these gags, by God we're going to use them." Look, they were cut out for a reason. Stick 'em on the DVD. Oh wait, maybe the filmmakers needed to make their running time otherwise they'd be delivering a 66 minute feature, but I don't think that was a problem in this case as the film felt three hours long. I love that one of the Zucker's is on the film but c'mon, this hardly lives up to anything they did in their heyday! The Zucker name only reminds us of better times and better films. David should've been a silent-producer if there's such a thing. Even the lesser accepted films were comedy gems, like Top Secret. Where is the equivalent underwater fight sequence? Where is the equivalent of the backwards sequence? Even greater than the Zucker name on this film is Leslie Nielsen's presence. It's sad to see him reduced to this kind of dreck. His presence only reminds us of better things he's done. Oh, and I love how he was revealed. The old "lowering the newspaper" reveal. How original. The greater the reveal that Leslie Nielsen is in the film, the greater the shock when we realize how great the films he used to be in were, compared to what he is now. Oh, and this movie was a lot like Bruce Almighty where 95% of the exterior scenes felt and looked like they were all backlots. Nice production design! Ugh, the blocking! I'm getting tired of the blcoking in these films where when it's crucial for a character in a scene to not be aware of a certain sight gag, we just automatically cut to a shot where they're standing with their back to it. We never see them turn and there's no justification for their awkward blocking, it's just there. Despite how bad Superhero Movie sucks, many of us will see it but don't be fooled by the kneejerk laughter from your audience. People still laughed at the unfunnieness but don't be fooled by it, as you shouldn't be fooled by the kneejerk ticket buying on its opening weekend. Moviegoing audiences have proven time and time again that they will throw as much money as they can at shit. This will be just the latest example, so, I offer my congratulations to the filmmakers and the studio.
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call me crazy but even the classic parody movies don't make me laugh like they used to, but i still respect them because you didn't have to see the movies they were parodying for them to work. I've still never seen Top Gun and Hot Shots made me crack up while I was growing up. Having said that, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the Incredibles entertain and inspire me at least 20 times more than any other kind of "parody" movie.
Super Hero Movie looked less terrible than than most of the parody movies but thats like saying child porn is less terrible than dead-child porn. The whole format feels dead to me along in that good-while-it-lasted-but-shoot-the-poor-damn-dying-horse way with sitcoms performed before a live audience and anything starring Jason Statham. -
"Do you know what I can do with this?" GOOFY NEPHEW: "Make a toupee that flys?"
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I think I'll give this one a chance.
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I guarantee the comments on this page are at least 100 times funnier than any joke in this movie.
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Is that today, whenever something worth doing a parody is released you've got a slew of people posting their own parodies on any one of the numerous video sites on the internets. So on one hand you've got this oversaturation of content concerning a topic. Then couple that with a lazy screenwriter and director and you've got the situation we find ourselves in concerning this genre. These film-makers (and I use the term loosely) don't have the talent/desire/ability to put any new spin on a subject so they rely on aping what's already out there. The only outlet for these people is to ape already existing content. The result is the product we've been getting for years now, unfunny and unoriginal.
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Get Sheen away from that sitcom during hiatus, and get Beau to play his dad's role.
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I'll give you a fake review you won't believe.
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The trailer was a black hole of comedy suck and that was a LONG trailer. Next.
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Reminds me of that unfunny supergirl unfunny movie that came out a few years ago.
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Mar 19, 2008 3:35:04 PM CDT
This isn't made by those 2 'Epic Movie' douches, is it?
by richard cranium
Because if they let those guys keep making movies, I'm going to have to put a bounty on their head. By the way, I loled at the 'Talkback Movie' idea. I think that would own.
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PLANT
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There just isn't.
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ROBB TALK TO ME ROBB!!
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When I hear people say, Funny Trailer, I have to wonder what their definition of "funny' is. The entire trailer I saw consists of every gag ending with somebody falling, geting hurt, beat up, wounded. Nothing to do with the Zucker Brothers genius but a sop to JACKASS boneheads. No, this does not look funny at all, but I'd like to think the movie could contain humor that doesn't just revolve around levels of pain. You can see that shit in GOOD LUCK CHUCK and endless tv ads.
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The nail gun bit in the trailer was amusing, and the Tom Cruise guy going on about the hero were amusing... the rest of what they've had in them looked stupid.
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Are the two greatest parodies ever! "War! It's FAAAAAAN-TASTIC! .....[big smile]"
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It looked funny and stupid at the same time. Maybe I'll see it.
However, I thought WALK HARD was a great parody movie. I think it wasn't sold properly because it didn't do as well as it should have. I laughed beginning to end and so did the other person in the theater when I saw it. But from it's trailer it just looked stupid. But it was at least as good as THE NAKED GUN, imo. -
I left the engine running!
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Horror Movie, Western Movie, Spielberg Movie, etc...
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Look a bit further up the thread.
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"Walk Hard" was the last good parody movie. But that is after an incredibly long stretch, where the previous good parody was "Not Another Teen Movie". Even ZAZ can't do anything as funny as their classic movies! "Top Secret!" still cracks me up to this day when I see it, even more than the "Naked Gun" movies! Maybe not as much as "Airplane!" though.
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I certainly don't expect it to be great, or even that good (the Tom Cruise stuff in the commercials looks god-awful), but I laugh so much every time during the nailgun scene in the commercials that I can't help but hope that there are moments that funny in the rest of the movie.
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That they went so faithful to the classic. You can't fault that, but I just expected that Baker would be giving us something more out there than previously. I didn't realise this was the tone they were going for.
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we're so sorry...
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Mar 19, 2008 6:59:26 PM CDT
was Scary Movie 2-4, Epic, Date, or Meet the Spartans funny?
by bmacsmith
FUCK NO. why is this going to be funny? how could this be good? have you been paying attention? Its the same bullshit over and over. They dont even write jokes. They just re-act scenes with bad actors! Why do these fucking movies keep getting such huge opening weekends? Because of fucktards! thats why!
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Cause this is some bullshit!
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...but the writer director has been talking trash about the guys behind Epic Movie and the like for a long time now, and this was produced by David Zucker. The cast list contains the right names for this kind of film: Nielson, Brent Spiner, The mistake is calling it Superhero Movie instead of it's original title, which I think damages the films reputation by associating it with the garbage that has populated this genre for a while.
Anyone trash talking this film by associating it with Epic Movie, or Meet The Spartans isn't paying attention. On the other hand, anyone who is reluctant to see this flick because of the garbage that has been foisted upon us in the spoof genre for a while has a reasonable position. -
I want my Coupon: the movie already. When will they make it a reality??
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It's been a long damned time. I highly doubt this will be decent, but I did laugh at the "Tom Cruise couldn't fly / dead body shot" clip from the trailer. That's probably just because Tom is a jackass.
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And he's not bad for a guy his size.
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These things are fucking awful! The trailers are just painful. They look cheap and the jokes could only be funny to the "tweens and younger" crowd--you know, people who still giggle at the second syllable in Hancock or who still remember with pride the day they first learned to produce fart sounds with their armpits. Even if these movies ARE for that crowd, where the hell are the parody movies for those of us with brains? Crap, I never thought I'd remember Hot Shots and think it was better than what we've got. I suppose if they'd made that now it would be called ACTION WAR MOVIE and AIRPLANE! would have to be called AIRPLANE MOVIE, you know, so we're clear this is a PARODY of a certain GENRE of like a MOVIE!!!! Also, AICN, you've had hardly any reviews lately (and precious little fresh news too), and now a bunch come through that are obviously written by plants. Did the checks at least clear and were the complimentary hookers at least good looking and healthy? Cause I want to know you still have those standards.
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screening, and unfortunately, this one doesn't hold up next to Airplane or Top Secret.
The biggest bet Craig Mazin missed - and hindsight's 20/20, I admit - is not developing and gaying up a plotline involving Jill's doofus blond boyfriend Lance Landers (a criminally underused Ryan Hansen of Veronica Mars fame) and Rick Riker/Dragonfly. Superhero Movie didn't explore the comedic possibilities of playing with that best friend/girlfriend love triangle that's at the emotional core of all three Spidey flicks.
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I say plant.I thought the trailer was sincerely funny enough, but only because it looks like a friend of mine's intellectual property...startlingly so, actually. Here's a pic of his hero that I drew: http://tinyurl.com/2y46nb It's a sort of parody of the Cloverfeld ads to build interest in our upcoming project...But I digress. Here's some things that stand out for me screaming 'PLANT':- It's written like a PR piece. Good grammar, and no personal take on the movies mentioned as examples of 'good parody'. It's pretty much a puff review, like one of those video game advertisements posing as a review in the middle of Game Informer. - The 'good' parody movies listed are a rundown of the good Zucker flicks, (The producers of THIS flick) but fail to mention 'High Anxiety' 'I'm Gonna Git You Sucka' or anything else NOT by the Zuckers as 'good' or even 'BRILLIANT' parody.- And lastly, I proofread a lot of stuff, and this reads like a professional thesis on PR work entitled : 'Why Superhero Parodies are Funny, and Why Superhero Movie is the Right Movie For YOU'.I say 'PLANT'...But it still looked giggle-worthy, I might check it out.
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but the tv spots make it look just as inane as the rest of the "______ Movie" franchise. Still, if it's actually about the genre being spoofed, and not just a "Best Week EVER!" Riff, it could work.
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Perhaps a bush or a small tree, but definitely NOT a plant!
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...have to feature either Carmen Electra or Pamela Anderson? Even just on the "jiggle" scale, both women are LONG past their 90's prime.
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do not want. do not care.
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You only have 2 points. Your first and third points ARE THE EXACT SAME THING! "This review is too well written" Which, in my opinion, is pretty feeble conjecture. Since when are bad grammar, poor spelling and juvenile writing the hallmarks of authenticity? I know that we all expect that from Harry, but do we really expect everyone to write down to his level? As to your other point; "He only mentions Zucker movies" - Well, that's probably because those are the easily the best of the genre, but regardless the reviewer clearly mentions "Don't Be a Menace..." in the "good" column and that was a Wayans bros film. I'm just sayin'.
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Superplant...
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And I didn't read a single word beyond the question posed in the title, the answer to which is "no, that isn't possible at all." So, yeah, no more movies with the word "movie" in the title, ever again.
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I doubt it's the worst movie ever- Tracy Morgan is in it, and shit- we're all geeks that love these fuckin comic book movies. That said, that review was written in a format and had no punctuation errors, a rarity for AICN, and a rarity for a non-professional reviewer. Pay 'em off.
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563 words= "Get me a 500-600 word positive review of this movie"
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This 'Plant!!11!' one's getting old. You wanna disagree with me? Say my opinion is full of shit? Wipe your just-emitted feces on my shoe? Great. Do that. But calling me a plant is a waste of bandwidth. I'm not a plant. I've been in the AICN chatroom for years and, for whatever it's worth, I've been reading this site since it's inception. So.... there, and stuff.
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I thought it was pretty not horrible actually... "Be the ball, and throw yourself!"
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This is truly pathetic. Merrick just ate clown shoes, and liked it.
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Mar 20, 2008 8:09:29 AM CDT
'taking the events of recent superhero movies and putting his ow
by jackie boy
THAT'S WHAT SHIT LIKE ____ MOVIE DOES. This plant just contradicted himself, in the smae paragraph no less. I'm surprised he didn't call this shit "wacky" or "zany."
Oh and in my opinion WALK HARD was a great fucking parody movie because the filmmakers actually gave a shit. The songs were so great because real songwriters wrote them, and John C. Reilly is a fucking god. It parodied the conventions of the musical biopic, esp. the shitty made for TV ones like the Jackson family one with the random cameos thrown in your face by constantly reminding you of their prescence- "Thanks, Buddy Holly," etc. In WALK HARD we got Guilty as Charged and "I'm in a dark fucking period!"; in MUSICIAN MOVIE they would have made a Britney Spears reference. As far as ripping scenes the only one that really stands out as taken from another movie was the bit about ripping the sinks out of the wall, and that was fucking fantastic. It's a damn shame that kinda bombed, showing studios Americans want more shit like MEET THE SPARTANS and less actual comedy in the NAKED GUN sense. -
yeah right. There is no way this movie is any good. All the "movie" series are complete wastes. They should just retire those guys. Is movies like that that make me wonder how big I would have made it in hollywood...cause everyone I now daydreams funnier stuff.
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Mar 20, 2008 12:14:15 PM CDT
Three points...Because it was written so late....
by micturatingbenjamin
Let me clarify:Point 1 - It's too 'on the nose', and doesn't include any of the idiosyncracies of common speech. It's written like someone was told to write what was written.2 - Yeah, he mentions 'Don't Be A Menance' but DOESN'T mention 'Blazing Saddles'? Come the fuck on. The rundown of 'good' parodies, sounds like a checklist of the Zucker Brothers stuff from IMDB, or what you'd find on the back of a DVD describing this movie to laud its credentials.And Point 3 - It was more about the structure of the 'review' than the quality of the writing. It said lots about 'how great' this flick is, giving away the synopsis you'd find on the official website, and mentioning a bit that didn't work in passing. The piece overall has no 'tone' other than 'give this movie a chance, nerds, you won't be sorry!'.Sorry you didn't get where I was coming from...I was busy playing Donkey Kong for hours and hours. :)
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Mar 20, 2008 12:51:15 PM CDT
Nobody that isn't a PLANT knows the writer of this thing.
by grantchastain
There are only two scenarios here. One, that the author A)supposedly saw a prescreening of this movie, and then B) did his due diligence writing a thoughtful review featuring the names of the writer and director in it. Or, two, that this thing is the biggest PLANT I've ever seen.Since I've no doubt it's the latter, and the likelihood is that the studio itself is reading this Talkback to see how well the movie is received... let me be the first to tell you that you that nerds will buy a lot of useless and dumb shit, but only if it smells like it's authentic and done in the spirit of what we love. This is not.
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http://tinyurl.com/2z6knv
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...when he appeared in a Scary Movie sequel.
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