Superhero Movie (2008)

Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

Director:

Craig Mazin

Writer:

Craig Mazin

Stars:

Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Sara Paxton

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Drake Bell	...	Rick Riker
Sara Paxton	...	Jill Johnson
Christopher McDonald	...	Lou Landers
Leslie Nielsen	...	Uncle Albert
Kevin Hart	...	Trey
Marion Ross	...	Aunt Lucille
Ryan Hansen	...	Lance Landers
Keith David	...	The Chief of Police
Brent Spiner	...	Dr. Strom
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Hawking
Jeffrey Tambor	...	Dr. Whitby
Robert Hays	...	Blaine Riker
Nicole Sullivan	...	Julia Riker
Sam Cohen	...	Young Rick
Tracy Morgan	...	Professor Xavier

Storyline

Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

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Plot Keywords:

parody | product placement | field trip | professor charles xavier character | storm character | 

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Taglines:

The greatest Superhero movie of all time! (not counting all the others)

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, drug references and language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Producer David Zucker had previously worked with Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen--Hays and Nielsen in Airplane! (1980), and Nielsen in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988).

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Goofs

When the truck driver honks his horn, the sound of an air horn is heard. In order to sound that horn, he would have to pull a cord. Pressing on the steering sounds the city horn, which has a different sound.

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Quotes

Jill's Mother: You're a whore just like your mother.
Rick Riker: Who was that?
Jill Johnson: My mother.

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Crazy Credits

The opening Dimension Films logo changes from its standard blue color to Dragonfly green.

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Alternate Versions

The Castilian Spanish edition on DVD/Blu-ray runs 86 minutes. It's not a extended version of the film but actually the theatrical cut with 7 minutes of mixing deleted/extended scenes of the movie during the end credits. It also includes in those 7 minutes the Craig Bierko's scene as Wolverine.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 WTF Parody Movie Scenes (2019)

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Soundtracks

Superbounce
Written by Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran
Performed by Drake Bell
Produced by Michael Corcoran
Courtesy of Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

User Reviews

Not one of the better comedy movies this year

Superhero Movie was not even close to as good as I thought it would be. Although I didn't like it im not going to lie it was pretty funny throughout the whole movie. I thought that it would have had more of a point to it. It made fun of only one movie and that was Spider Man. This had to honestly be the shortest movie I have ever seen. They might say its 1 hour and 20 minutes but it doesn't even get to that. The previews took up 10 minutes and then 1 hour of the movie. I really wasn't that mad that it wasn't that long because if it was it would have been worse. The only thing that really saved this movie were a couple of the characters in it. I think that one more bad thing about the movie was that they didn't show enough of the good characters in it. Sara Paxton really was the one who saved this movie. She was very pretty once again. I think that out of all the scary movies, Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie, and Date movie this was the worst yet. They all also seem to be very short for some reason. I think that they run out of things to put in the movies. In this movie thought they kept making each scene to long. In each of the funny scenes it was like wow thats funny then 20 seconds later it would still be going on, it was like just end the scene. When you go into this kind of movie though you have to expect a short and stupid movie. This was probably the most stupid movie I have ever seen. This was definitely not worth 10 dollars on going to see. If you need to go see this only spend like 7 dollars or wait for DVD. Overall this was a stupid and pointless movie thrown in with a couple good laughs.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 March 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Superhero!

Filming Locations:

Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$9,510,297, 30 March 2008

Gross USA:

$25,881,068

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$71,571,300

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dimension Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min 82 min (extended edition) 101 min (extended cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1