Superhero Movie

The Movie: Oh, how far the lowly stupid joke has fallen. Where once we had Barbara Billingsley speaking jive, now we have Marion Ross giving advice on oral sex hygiene. That devolution is pretty much endemic of Superhero Movie, which continues the--er, proud tradition of taking a genre and squeezing out every possible, and even some impossible, jokes from it. With a production crew and cast with credits like everything from Airplane! to Scary Movie, you can pretty much guess what you'll get in this film. But the fact is, even knowing beforehand that everything including the kitchen sink (well, a school drinking fountain, anyway) will get skewered doesn't keep Superhero Movie from being very, very funny at times. At others, of course, it just sort of lays there, sinking under the weight of its surely sophomoric humor. And,... [read full story]