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Super Capers (2009)

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Reviews Counted:17

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Rotten:17

Average Rating:2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Though Justin Whalin may be best known for playing Jimmy Olsen on LOIS & CLARK, the actor gets to wear a cape in this superhero comedy. Ed Gruberman may just be an average guy, but he imagines... Though Justin Whalin may be best known for playing Jimmy Olsen on LOIS & CLARK, the actor gets to wear a cape in this superhero comedy. Ed Gruberman may just be an average guy, but he imagines himself to be a crime-fighting superhero, and that desire lands him in trouble with the law. Forced to enlist in a group of sub-par superheroes, Ed finally gets the chance to join the battle in good versus evil, but it’s not everything he had imagined. SUPER CAPERS also stars Michael Rooker, Jon Polito, HELLBOY’s Doug Jones, and Adam West. [More]

Starring: Justin Whalin, Michael Rooker, Ryan McPartlin, Samuel Lloyd

Starring: Justin Whalin, Michael Rooker, Ryan McPartlin, Samuel Lloyd, Danielle Harris, Ray Griggs, Christine Lakin, Jon Polito, Adam West, June Lockhart, Doug Jones, Tom Sizemore, Clint Howard, Tiny Lister

Director: Ray Griggs

Director: Ray Griggs
Screenwriter: Ray Griggs
Producer: Ray Griggs, Reuben Lim
Composer: Nathan Lanier
Studio: Roadside Attractions

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Reviews for Super Capers

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Dan Lybarger

Slower than a glacier at the South Pole. More powerful than the strongest insomnia cure. Able to empty theaters with a single frame. It's a turkey! It's a Hindenburg! It's Super Capers!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 01 2009 10:10 PM

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Frank Ochieng

[A] woefully toothless send-up of superhero silliness. Indeed, Super Capers is in need of its own creative rescuing.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 16 2009 07:22 PM

Movie Eye

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Avi Offer

Even if you manage to suspend your disbelief and to check your brain at the door, Super Capers still feels lazy, dull, painfully juvenile and void of any real thrills, laughs or even unintentionally funny moments.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 23 2009 12:03 PM

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MaryAnn Johanson

[B]rutally stupid... consistently mistakes wholesale theft -- from beloved geek favorites from Star Wars to Back to the Future to The Matrix -- for creative cleverness...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 22 2009 03:37 PM

Flick Filosopher

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Keith Cohen

The movie's only strength is the fabulous comic book/MAD magazine cartoon imagery by humorous illustrator Tom Richmond.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 08:09 PM

Entertainment Spectrum

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Superhero comedy is age appropriate but only so-so.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 03:37 PM

Common Sense Media

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Gary Goldstein

Super Capers begins as a campy tribute to comic book heroes and their 1960s and '70s TV incarnations, but quickly descends into an ineptly paced, toothless lampoon of sci-fi and fantasy films.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 01:31 PM

Los Angeles Times

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Pete Hammond

Too much of the time though is wasted with moronic shenanigans and B-level acting by a cast that was obviously hired because they were affordable.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 11:36 AM

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Robert W. Butler

The first 10 minutes of this mirthless mess was interminable, and it didn’t get any better. I’d feel cheated if I’d rented this one from the red box at Mickey D’s.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 11:36 AM

Kansas City Star

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Kyle Smith

Featuring the production values of a commercial for a local used-car dealership in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Super Capers is a pathetic grab bag of spoofs.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 11:18 AM

New York Post

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Lael Loewenstein

A bizarrely misguided attempt to revive -- and spoof -- the classic B-movie, Super Capers is the kind of experience that makes you want your 93 minutes back.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 11:08 AM

Variety

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Nathan Lee

Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2009 10:48 AM

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Michael Rechtshaffen

This first feature by Ray Griggs wears its Mad Magazine influences like a badge of honor but fails to round up enough laughs to save the day.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2009 04:55 PM

Hollywood Reporter

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Graham Killeen

Nothing here works.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2009 04:07 PM

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Nick Schager

Super Capers doesn't ever come close to justifying its existence.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2009 01:08 PM

Slant Magazine

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Joe Williams

You'd have to have X-ray vision to find a semblance of a plot here, yet you'd have to be blind to overlook the cheapness of the special effects and the ineptitude of the direction.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2009 11:29 AM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Tim Grierson

A witless send-up of pop-culture detritus like light sabers, Batmobiles and “Hasta la vista, baby."

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2009 09:02 AM

L.A. Weekly

 
 
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