Shawn's Superhero Movie Review

First off for those who read this (aka me) a couple of quick housekeeping points. First off you may have noticed that the movie number count has jumped up. That's because I decided to go back and count my bonus reviews as actual 2008 movies. I mean they came out this year, even if they didn't open in theatres. It's just easier this way, especially when it comes to listing the best and worst 2008 movies and what not. Plus it makes my task look that much more impressive since the number of 2008 movies watched will sky rocket upwards.

The second thing is that I will very rarely do multiple reviews within one update. Each movie will get their own. That way it doesn't sit unfinished forever like my Penelope and Run Fatboy Run reviews unfortunatly did. I for some reason find myself much less motivated to write them when there's a shitload of movies to review in one single update. I think that about does it.

2008 Movie # 38 - Superhero Movie

Those who know me even the slightest bit know that I was not a fan of Meet the Spartans. Meet the Spartans angered me. It angered me to no fucking end. I still think about that movie and get ridiculously pissed off. Even just seeing the announcement of the DVD made me angry. In fact I'm sure if I were all of you I would look forward to the release of that DVD because I am definitely planning on reviewing the DVD itself. I just have to see how fucking self congratulatory those fuckers will be on the behind the scenes features and commentary. I have to see how they justify the movies existence, as well as their own.

Needless to say after that movie I didn't have high hopes for another spoof just a couple of months later. I mean I think the Scary Movie movies are decently funny, parts 1 and 3 especially so the idea that the people behind those movies were involved in this one at least gave me a faint glimmer of hope. Sadly they have let me down.

Now this review isn't going to be the verbal raping that was my Meet the Spartans review. Superhero Movie didn't anger me, it just wasn't that funny. It does a lot of the things Meet the Spartans (which from this point on will be refered to simply as Shitfuck) does which includes references that won't be relevant in the next few months, a ton of "hey aren't we hip for saying that" references (things such as: myspace, youtube, wikipedia, top 5 on cell phones, pretty much any flavour of the month you can think of), theres even a Two Girls One Cup "joke" that doesn't even make any sense except to say the name of the site.

However at least this movie, unlike Shitfuck, keeps it's focus on one genre instead of any movie to come out within the last 12 months. In fact not only does it focus on just one genre, it pretty much focuses on just one movie, and that's the original Spider-Man movie from years ago. So this movie is almost the exact opposite of Shitfuck in that it's spoofing target isn't too recent, it's kind of too old.

Another problem is that Superhero Movie doesn't so much spoof Spider-Man as it does recreate the story and insert prat falls, farts and shit jokes. There are at least a couple of decent attempts at actually spoofing the genre, which Shitfuck certainly never tried to do. So that's something.

The final and biggest problem is that, as briefly mentioned above, the movie just isn't that funny. There are a whole lot of lame roll your eyes jokes scattered throughout that really overpower the couple of genuinely funny moments the movie does have. I did laugh at least twice (smiled anyway), which is twice as much as Shitfuck.

So I can't recommend this movie, not at all. But it's a very, very, very small step forward for the spoof genre after the tragedy that was Shitfuck.

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