Superhero Movie (2008)

Directed by

Craig Mazin

Genre

parody film, teen film, superhero film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 2,044 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager gets bitten by a radioactive dragonfly and becomes a superhero. He has to stop a businessman from stealing other people's life force. The movie makes fun of Spider-Man and other superhero films.

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What happens

Superhero Movie is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Mazin, Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald and Leslie Nielsen. The film follows a socially awkward teenager who becomes a Spider-Man-like masked vigilante with superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, and must use his new abilities to stop a villainous businessman from harvesting the life force of others. A spoof of the superhero film genre, primarily Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), it also parodies other 2000s superhero films such as X-Men (2000) and Fantastic Four (2005). The film draws inspiration from the Scary Movie series, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as Airplane! (1980) and the Naked Gun trilogy (1988, 1991 and 1994 respectively). In the case of the former, the film was originally titled Superhero! as a nod to Airplane!, in which Nielsen also starred. Production began on September 17, 2007, in Los Angeles. It was released by MGM Distribution Co. on March 28, 2008, in the United States to negative critical reviews, but grossed $73 million against a $35 million budget. The film has made a loyal cult following in the parody genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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