Synopsis
The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
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Cast
- Drake BellDragonfly
- Sara PaxtonJill Johnson
- Christopher McDonaldLou Landers
- Leslie NielsenUncle Albert Adams
- Kevin HartTrey
- Marion RossAunt Lucille
- Ryan HansenLance Landers
- Keith DavidThe Chief of Police
- Brent SpinerDr. Strom
- Robert JoyDr. Hawking
Recommendations
- 58
The A.V. Club
Undiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further. - 50
Variety
Given the abysmal quality of recent spoof pics, it's saying something that Superhero Movie provides a fairly steady stream of midsized laughs -- and even the 40% or so of gags that just lie there aren't actively painful. - 50
Boston Globe
How can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The very act of writing critically about Superhero Movie inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre. - 40
Chicago Reader
The gags are consistently weak, though actor Miles Fisher turns in a hair-raising impression of Tom Cruise. - 40
Film Threat
What's shocking about Superhero Movie is not that it's been advertised to death on Nickelodeon to impressionable children, but that it's a completely on-the-nose satire of "Spider-Man.” - 30
L.A. Weekly
Predictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
