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Super (18)

Action, Comedy, Drama

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.


The critical consensus

A brilliant twist on the everyman crime-fighter genre, as violent and human as it is funny.

****(*)Philip Wilding, Empire Online, 04/07/2011

A bold superhero Taxi Driver, but for every viewer revelling in its savage satire, another will see a cynical, uncertain mess.

***(*)(*)Simon Kinnear, Total Film, 07/07/2011

Comedic, confronting, confounding.

****(*)Anton Bitel, Little White Lies, 07/07/2011

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.

**(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 08/07/2011

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.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 09/07/2011

Spoof of comic-strips falls flat.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 08/07/2011

Delightfully off-kilter without being too quirky, though its zany humour sometimes doesn’t sit too well next to the savage violence.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 07/07/2011

As black comedy, it works reasonably well some of the time, with plenty of black but not much comedy.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 07/07/2011

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.

Jason Solomons, The Observer, 10/07/2011

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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