90 minutes of 'The Office"s Rainn Wilson telling crime to "Shut up!".
Starring: Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Nathan Fillion
Directed by: James Gunn
The Positives:
- I love me some Bacon. Kevin Bacon.
- The animated opening scene was probably the best part of the flick.
- Michael Rooker!
- I'm thankful Linda Cardellini still finds employment (even if her character was pointless and wasted). I like her.
- If you wanna go from a beginner to a pro, you're gonna need a montage. A good ol' montage! (Not a quote from this film mind you, but a 'South Park' quote I like to use to display my love for montages.)
- When the quirky jokes do work, they're really quite funny. Especially taking wrenches to the face. That's never not funny.
- I do find it kind of refreshing that when the Crimson Bolt starts out fighting crime, he doesn't get his ass kicked like most other super-powerless wanna-be superheroes do, but instead actually does some heavy damage (which of course causes more bad than good when he gets a tad power hungry).
- What happens to 'Bolty' is shocking... Horrible even. It does spin normal superhero tropes on their head however, and thus I approve.
The Negatives:
- I think the film tries too hard to be original via quirkiness and it doesn't work well enough for me to believe it helps. I found the imaginary scenes that take place in the protagonists head (think 'Scrubs') and eccentric tone much too distracting to feel fresh.
- It doesn't help that 'Super' is also pretty boring at times.
- Once more, a comedy flick takes the "He's Christian so he must be crazy" approach.
- I did approve of the pop-art style words popping up during fight scenes, referencing Adam West's 'Batman' of course. But then they only used it in like two scenes. You can't just do that shit once. Commitment dammit!
- 'Inception' proves Ellen Page has range, so I don't understand why she pretty much only plays Juno in everything she's in.
- I understand the Crimson Bolt is going through some rough times, but both he and Libby are pretty fucked up and I don't really know why I should root for them.
- The sugary-sweet ending felt tacked on nor did it give the film proper closure.
- Oh, and hentai in a main-stream film? I'm not ready for that.
Grade: D+
It's a dark comedy a bit too twisted to laugh at and it's uninspired to boot. I expected much more.
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