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.
12 June 1974, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
25 June 1975, Redwood City, California, USA
13 October 1970, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
5 August 1970, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
14 January 1982, Evanston, Illinois, USA
27 March 1971, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
22 May 1974, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
25 July 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
28 January 1999
12 January 1965, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
14 August 1981, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 July 1968, Bronx, New York, USA
6 May 1952, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
28 January 1957, Cuero, Texas, USA
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.
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.
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" could use the certitude of its hero, but the weapon it wields instead is a scalpel to see what's inside us.
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.
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.
April 15, 2011
Super just doesn't fly.
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.
April 15, 2011
This movie is too pedestrian for camp, and too scattershot for an action comedy.
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.
July 06, 2011
Offers genuine empathy with the put-upon protagonist's longing for justice, yet plays the bloody ramifications for cartoonish fun.
