thebeanbrother
Lifetime Total
1+
IMDb Member
5 years
Reviews
Super (2010)
My favorite film.
I went into this film expecting something in the vein of "Kick-Ass" or "Mystery Men" After all, there is a lot of potential in taking the piss out of the superhero concept. However, what I came away with after seeing this for the first time was one of the most unique and genuinely great experiences in a movie I'd ever gotten, period.
On paper, this is just a dumb fun superhero spoof with the added bonus of an R rating, but the script for this film is absolutely outstanding. I'd hardly even consider it a superhero spoof, it's more so a black comedy with a very gripping and fascinating main character. Frank Darbo is a man who's outlook of morality is so juvenile, the way he copes with his terrible life is cobbling together a crappy Halloween costume of a superhero he made up for himself, and enforcing brutal, unflinching vigilante justice on all the wrong people. Not only is this a stupidly funny concept that is explored to its fullest potential in the movie, it also serves as a backbone for a very satisfying, if not bitter sweet story of a man learning the true, realistic nature of good and evil. It's not really poking a lot of fun at your typical superhero schlock, it more so uses the superhero motif to reflect how simplistic and child like our two leads are, that they would be so narrow minded as to think that parading around in tights is in any way doing good for society. So when reality sets in and it's no longer funny and over the top superhero comedy in the final act, it hits the viewer about as hard as the main characters.
The cast is great, the performances are great, the dialogue is really cleverly written, the technical stuff like the camera work, practical effects, score, ranges from very serviceable to fantastic (apart from one or two instances of really bad cgi) I don't think the film is a straight up masterpiece, which is why it's a 7 and not a 10. If I rated movies purely out of my enjoyment for them, this would be a 10 no doubt, but it's important for me to mention that this isn't like some groundbreaking arthouse movie that redefines storytelling, It's my favorite movie more so because it achieves everything it sets out to do, it has a fantastic final battle that left me in shock the first time I saw it, and the main character is fun and interesting to follow I feel hits really close to home for people who are a little socially isolated, and wish the world was a simpler place. Do yourself a favor, and watch what I believe to be James Gunn's magnum opus.
On paper, this is just a dumb fun superhero spoof with the added bonus of an R rating, but the script for this film is absolutely outstanding. I'd hardly even consider it a superhero spoof, it's more so a black comedy with a very gripping and fascinating main character. Frank Darbo is a man who's outlook of morality is so juvenile, the way he copes with his terrible life is cobbling together a crappy Halloween costume of a superhero he made up for himself, and enforcing brutal, unflinching vigilante justice on all the wrong people. Not only is this a stupidly funny concept that is explored to its fullest potential in the movie, it also serves as a backbone for a very satisfying, if not bitter sweet story of a man learning the true, realistic nature of good and evil. It's not really poking a lot of fun at your typical superhero schlock, it more so uses the superhero motif to reflect how simplistic and child like our two leads are, that they would be so narrow minded as to think that parading around in tights is in any way doing good for society. So when reality sets in and it's no longer funny and over the top superhero comedy in the final act, it hits the viewer about as hard as the main characters.
The cast is great, the performances are great, the dialogue is really cleverly written, the technical stuff like the camera work, practical effects, score, ranges from very serviceable to fantastic (apart from one or two instances of really bad cgi) I don't think the film is a straight up masterpiece, which is why it's a 7 and not a 10. If I rated movies purely out of my enjoyment for them, this would be a 10 no doubt, but it's important for me to mention that this isn't like some groundbreaking arthouse movie that redefines storytelling, It's my favorite movie more so because it achieves everything it sets out to do, it has a fantastic final battle that left me in shock the first time I saw it, and the main character is fun and interesting to follow I feel hits really close to home for people who are a little socially isolated, and wish the world was a simpler place. Do yourself a favor, and watch what I believe to be James Gunn's magnum opus.