Superhero Movie
The art of consulting movie detection is, or should be, a coldly logical one. A practitioner of this scientific art calls for machine-like detachment in the observation of any film, and a suppression of those superficial reactions one might have upon first walking out of a theater. All that said, the reader should understand how hard it is for the great-grandson of Sherlock Holmes to allow the following to leave his lips:
“Superhero Movie” sucks.
Really. It does. And after the likes of “Date Movie,” “Epic Movie,” “Meet the Spartans,” and anything else calling itself a parody but being anything but, perhaps the time has come to for movie investigators to go back into criminal investigation and start hunting the culprits down, throw them in prison, and let them prey upon us no more!
Forget what you saw in the previews. The five minutes of multi-superhero comedy featuring Tracy Morgan as Professor X is probably the best part of “Superhero Movie” and the only part he’s in. The rest is a doggedly faithful rewrite of the first Spiderman movie, so doggedly faithful that at times one has to wonder if they actually copied from the script.
Parody is perhaps the easiest form of comedy, as any sixth-grader knows. So how is it that television shows like “Saturday Night Live” and “Mad TV” come up with multiple parody sketches on every show that, at their worst, aren’t as weak as what we’re subjected to in theaters these days? A subject like superhero movies is ripe for the parody picking, at this point , with dozens of movies to make fun of. . . so why does “Superhero Movie” act like “Spiderman” is the only one ever made?
Some mysteries even a consulting movie investigator cannot solve.
What Great-grandfather Sherlock Might Have Said:
"Rubbish!"
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