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Superhero Movie is a 2008 American superhero parody movie written and directed by using Craig Mazin, produced by means of Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. it become at the start titled Superhero! as a nod to one of the Zuckers's previous movies, Airplane!, in which Nielsen also starred.

A spoof of the superhero movie style, mainly Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, in addition to other current-day comic ebook film adaptations, the film follows inside the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by using, and includes homages to some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films inclusive of Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

Production commenced on September 17, 2007, in Los Angeles. It was launched on March 28, 2008, inside the United States to generally terrible critiques from critics (but more high-quality than earlier entries which include Date Movie and Meet the Spartans), however obtained a mild container workplace success, grossing over $71 million global on a $35 million budget.Plot[edit]

Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is an unpopular scholar at Empire High School. He lives together with his Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen) and Aunt Lucille (Marion Ross), and his exceptional pal, Trey (Kevin Hart), who is also his confidante. Rick has a weigh down on Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton), however she is relationship bully Lance Landers (Ryan Hansen). One day, Rick and his elegance pass on a faculty discipline trip at an animal studies lab run with the aid of terminally ill businessman Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald), who's Lance's uncle. During the ride, Rick by accident saturates himself in animal-appeal liquid, which reasons a collection of animals to hump him. This additionally leads a chemically enhanced radioactive dragonfly to fly onto Rick's neck and chunk him.

Meanwhile, Lou creates a device designed to heal illness; testing it on himself, he profits perfect health on the price of needing to empty lifestyles energy from a sufferer in line with day. To avoid arrest for murder, Lou will become the villain Hourglass. During a technological know-how fair, Rick starts to enjoy bizarre bodily trends which creates some of mishaps, and later realizes that he has developed superpowers from the dragonfly chew. Rick exhibits his secret to his uncle and Trey, and an issue starts offevolved among him and Albert. The next day, whilst visiting the bank with Lucille, Rick by accident lets in a financial institution robber to make off with stolen cash. The robber then shoots and injures Albert.

Rick is later met by way of Xavier (Tracy Morgan) who takes Rick to his college for mutants, in which he meets Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Invisible Woman, Barry Bonds and Mrs. Xavier, who persuade Rick to become a superhero. At domestic, Rick creates a superhero costume and dubs himself The Dragonfly. As Dragonfly, Rick begins looking over the city and preventing crime, speedy becoming a media sensation, regardless of being unable to fly. Later, Dragonfly tries to forestall Hourglass from robbing a warehouse full of "ceryllium" as a part of his evil plan however fails, permitting Hourglass to break out.

Later that night, Jill is attacked through thieves, however Dragonfly saves her and that they percentage a kiss. Meanwhile, Landers plans to construct a device a good way to kill humans and deliver him enough existence power to make him immortal. Later that night, Landers and Lance have dinner with Rick's own family and Jill, however Landers secretly learns of Rick's genuine identification whilst he notices the same accidents on Rick as on Dragonfly. Making up a clumsy excuse, he and Lance leave. Landers returns mins later as Hourglass and kills Aunt Lucille. Albert awakens from his coma, mastering about her dying circuitously from his moronic health practitioner. After a comic funeral, Jill meets Rick and offers to begin a courting with him. However, Rick fears Hourglass will come for Jill if they had been together, and therefore rejects Jill, leaving her hurt and furious.

Rick makes a decision to stop his superhero career, but understanding that Hourglass might head to an awards ceremony to kill hundreds of human beings, he gets Albert to take him there. At the ceremony, Rick is tricked by means of Landers into mistaking the Dalai Lama for Hourglass, and chaos ensues. Meanwhile, Jill discovers that Landers is Hourglass. When Hourglass clashes with Dragonfly on a rooftop, he tries to set off his machine, however Dragonfly manages to kill him with a bomb that were comically stuck onto his genitals after being thrown via Hourglass. Jill is thrown off the facet of the building by way of the explosion, but Dragonfly manages to grow wings and store her. Jill learns that Rick is Dragonfly due to a family ring he wears being exposed thru a hollow in his glove and the two begin a dating. After being thanked for saving the metropolis, Rick flies away with Jill, but the two are all at once rammed by a passing helicopter.Cast[edit]

• Drake Bell as Rick Riker / Dragonfly
  • Sam Cohen as Young Rick Riker
• Sara Paxton as Jill Johnson
• Christopher McDonald as Lou Landers / Hourglass
• Leslie Nielsen as Albert Riker
• Kevin Hart as Trey
• Marion Ross as Lucille Riker
• Ryan Hansen as Lance Landers
• Robert Joy as Stephen Hawking
• Brent Spiner asDr. Strom
• Jeffrey Tambor as Dr. Whitby
• Tracy Morgan as Professor Xavier
• Regina Hall as Mrs. Xavier
• Pamela Anderson as The Invisible Girl
• Simon Rex as Human Torch
• Craig Bierko as Wolverine (scenes cut, credit score handiest)
• Richard Tillman as Wolverine
• Robert Hays as Blaine Riker
• Nicole Sullivan as Julia Riker
• Dan Castellaneta as Carlson
• Keith David as Chief Karlin
• Marisa Lauren as Storm
• Miles Fisher as Tom Cruise
• Charlene Tilton as Mrs. Johnson
• Sean Simms as Barry Bonds
• Freddie Pierce as Tony Bennett
• Howard Mungo as Nelson Mandela
• Lil' Kim as Xavier's daughter
• Cameron Ali Sims as Xavier's son
• Marque Richardson as Xavier's oldest son (uncredited)
• Kurt Fuller as Mr. Thompson
• Aki Aleong as Dalai Lama

Production[edit]

The movie changed into to start with slated for theatrical launch on February 9, 2007, as Superhero! under the direction of David Zucker.[2] However, it was not on time, and the movie later commenced manufacturing on September 17, 2007, in New York, and the director's chair become shifted to Craig Mazin, with Zucker being pushed again to being a producer.[3][four] Though the movie changed into produced in New York, the flyover scenes used as transitions within the movie use pictures of the business district in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Zucker stated the film primarily parodied Spider-Man and Batman Begins, however it additionally spoofed X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Superman. The producer elaborated, "It's a spoof of the entire superhero style, but this one in all likelihood has greater of a unified plot, like The Naked Gun had."[five]Release[edit]Critical reaction[edit]

Superhero Movie acquired typically bad critiques from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on fifty three critiques with a mean rating of three.eight/10. The site's important consensus reads, "Superhero Movie is not the worst of the spoof genre, however relies on tired gags and lame pop culture references all of the same."[6] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 33 out of 100 based totally on 14 critics, indicating "typically unfavourable reviews".[7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie a median grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[eight]Box workplace overall performance[edit]

On its opening weekend, the movie grossed $9,510,297 in 2,960 theaters averaging to about $3,212 in step with venue and ranked #three at the box office. It has grossed $25,881,068 in North America, and $45,285,554 internationally for a complete of $71,166,622 in international container office receipts.DVD release[edit]

Superhero Movie changed into released on DVD July eight, 2008. It was released inside the rated PG-13 theatrical version (seventy five min.) and the prolonged edition (eighty one minutes). The extended DVD capabilities remark by means of Zucker, Weiss, and Mazin, deleted scenes, and an exchange ending. There is also a Blockbuster Exclusive model of the Film which is the PG-13 version with the bonus capabilities on the Unrated model or even more deleted scenes.

• Audio statement via writer/director Craig Mazin and manufacturers David Zucker and Robert K. Weiss — Extended Version Only
• Deleted scenes
• Alternate ending
• Meet the Cast featurette
• The Art of Spoofing featurette
• Theatrical trailer

The European (Region 2) DVD has 15 certificate and has all the functions of the Extended Region 1 model.Music[edit]

Sara Paxton appearing the song heard throughout the credit, titled "I Need A Hero", which she also wrote with Michael Jay and Johnny Pedersen.Superhero! Song[edit]