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- 58The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinUndiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyGiven the abysmal quality of recent spoof pics, it's saying something that Superhero Movie provides a fairly steady stream of midsized laughs -- and even the 40% or so of gags that just lie there aren't actively painful.
- 50Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrHow can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.
- The very act of writing critically about Superhero Movie inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckBy-the-numbers screen parody fails to resurrect an increasingly tired genre.
- 40Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe gags are consistently weak, though actor Miles Fisher turns in a hair-raising impression of Tom Cruise.
- 40Film ThreatFilm ThreatWhat's shocking about Superhero Movie is not that it's been advertised to death on Nickelodeon to impressionable children, but that it's a completely on-the-nose satire of "Spider-Man.”
- 30L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyPredictable, flat, full of name-dropping, tragically unhip, and likely to make a decent amount of cash.
- 30The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottNo real mockery is intended by this harmless, mindless grab bag of slightly used gags, which lampoons some of the conventions of recent comic-book epics and adds the expected staples of juvenile humor: urine, vomit and intestinal gas.
- 0TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThis abysmal "Spider-Man" satire has more in common with the lamentable spate of "Epic" and "Date Movies" than Zucker and Nielsen's truly funny "Naked Gun" series.