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Super
After his wife leaves him, a fry cook emulates a TV superhero and transforms himself into a costumed vigilante. With the help from a crazed sidekick and absolutely nothing in the way of superpowers, he beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes of saving his wife.
27 March 1971, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
19 August 1985, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
28 January 1999
6 April 1955, Jasper, Alabama, USA
16 February 1951, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 February 1969, Riverside, California, USA
April 14, 2011
Could be endearing, if Wilson's performance weren't so nihilistically dull, and if there were somebody in the picture who had a soul.
April 15, 2011
"Super" could use the certitude of its hero, but the weapon it wields instead is a scalpel to see what's inside us.
January 29, 2012
Super can be very affecting and emotionally disturbing, which might not suit everyone's tastes, but it's also an absorbing, bleak and sometimes funny deviation from the usual superhero fodder.
January 10, 2013
The graphic violence spatters along for an hour and a half until we reach that point when writer-director James Gunn says, "That's all I've got" and basically gives up.
June 02, 2013
Great dark humor and enjoyable performances make this one a winner. Surprisingly, the animated sequences also work quite well.
April 15, 2011
Super just doesn't fly.
September 25, 2012
[Not] an easily digestible movie but this is ... the point - in a world where everything isn't as cut and dry as 'good versus evil', rationality is increasingly rare.
April 15, 2011
This movie is too pedestrian for camp, and too scattershot for an action comedy.
April 14, 2011
A sense of style can make up for a lot at the movies. But James Gunn's brutal new comedy-thriller, "Super," succeeds only in demonstrating that without it, you may not have much of anything.
July 06, 2011
Offers genuine empathy with the put-upon protagonist's longing for justice, yet plays the bloody ramifications for cartoonish fun.
May 03, 2015
If I hadn't foolishly gone and saw Sucker Punch a couple weeks ago, this would be the worst film of the year.