After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
A brilliant twist on the everyman crime-fighter genre, as violent and human as it is funny.
A bold superhero Taxi Driver, but for every viewer revelling in its savage satire, another will see a cynical, uncertain mess.
Comedic, confronting, confounding.
Writer-director James Gunn eventually loses control of the tone, which slips from deadpan to deadly and trashes what little amusement there was in a finale of gruesome violence.
Unfortunately Super's director James Gunn seems unable to decide whether he's making a satirical work or a sick joke and, as a result, he squanders the entertainingly unhinged performances of his cast before copping out with a sentimental happy ending.
Spoof of comic-strips falls flat.
Delightfully off-kilter without being too quirky, though its zany humour sometimes doesn’t sit too well next to the savage violence.
As black comedy, it works reasonably well some of the time, with plenty of black but not much comedy.
This disastrously unfunny superhero spoof features a grating performance from Juno star Ellen Page, a vapid leading man in Rainn Wilson and an idiotic mix of humour and violence.
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