| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

This super-powered spoof just doesn't fly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2008

There are a few lively bits, and one joke with an edge: a slap at Stephen Hawking and his computer-drone voice. Mostly, though, this is super-lame.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 2, 2008

Essentially a retread of every bad grade-school joke you're happy to have forgotten.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 31, 2008

With jokes packed as tightly together as sliced cheese, the flick's comedy axiom seems to be: Never give the audience a pause to second-guess their laughter

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Mar 31, 2008

It's a bit late in the game for Superhero Movie, which was never going to fly, and barely crawls.

| Mar 31, 2008

It looks for all the world as if writer/director Craig Mazin took the screenplay for Spider-Man, propped it up next to his MacBook, and just went through it, inserting fart gags, pratfalls and the lamest of jokes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 31, 2008

The very act of writing critically about Superhero inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 31, 2008

Puerile and idiotic it may be, but Superhero Movie is nonetheless smarter than most of its lowbrow brethren in the Hollywood sub-sub-category known as the spoof movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2008

To call Superhero Movie a satire, or even a parody, of the genre specified in its title would be misleading, since those terms imply at least an attempt at wit. But no real mockery is intended by this mindless grab bag of slightly used gags.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 29, 2008

By-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2008

The gags are consistently weak.

| Mar 29, 2008

Superhero Movie would make a decent long-form short on the "Funny or Die" website, but at 85 minutes -- 15 of which are outtake-heavy end credits -- its powers of amiability wear off fast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2008

70 minutes of good if unmemorable fun sure beats 80 or 90 minutes of excruciating parodies for dummies, a la Date Movie and Epic Movie.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2008

It's rather benign, actually -- never very funny, and never amusing for more than a few moments at a time, but not grating or clownish, either.

| Original Score: C | Mar 29, 2008

The film's weakest moments are also its timeliest.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 28, 2008