I sat down to watch Superhero Movie prepared to be disgusted, but within minutes of the movie opening and realising that the movies writer/director was called Craig Mazin and not Freidberg or Seltzer (the idiots behind Meet The Partans/Epic Hero/Date Movie/Scary Movie 4) my mood began to lift.

Superhero Movie is a spoof movie, but unlike the aforementioned movies not spoofing dozens of movies, in this case simply two Spiderman and The X-Men movies. Instead Superhero Movie when not taking swipes at those two titles it looks at modern trends, things like Internet websites Craigs List, and Facebook. Whereas those other spoof movies left me livid, infuriated in fact at the fact that there are people out there that are so stupid they pay to watch these movies, then moan about them. And sadly on this basis, Superhero Movie might well not get seen due to the fact that the world has finally woken up to the fact that these spoof movies are so last century, and the ones last from the last century were actually funny.

On more than one occasion I laughed out loud at this movie, which while it bears some resemblances to the not so hot newer breed of spoof movies, has more in common with movies like Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, and Naked Gun; and as if to acknowledge that its funnier than the 21st century versions and more like the 20th century versions Robert Hays star of the Airplane movies, and Leslie Nielson from Airplane and The Naked Gun take responsible roles. While Nielson's performances have been very hit and miss recently this is most definitely more hit than miss.

Now I'm not claiming that Superhero Movie is a classic, it will never even cause a shadow, but its a pretty good attempt at giving life back to a robbed genre in the comedy market, and no doubt some genius will be round the corner taking notes from this and using it to deliver a really good spoof movie in the near future.

I found lots of reviews when swotting up to write about this movie about it being so incredibly crude, I'm not quite sure what planet these people are on but if farting jokes and the increasing decline of fabric in women's underwear is incredibly crude then maybe I'm some sort of sicko.

Rather like Spiderman the hero of the movie Rick Riker is a bit of a loser, one day out at a nature park and he becomes bitten by a radioactive Dragonfly, the result of which is that Rick gets some unexpected powers, like the ability to stick to things especially people garments. Over

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