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Super Capers

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This movie we saw for free in the movie theatre with passes given to us at a convention. My wife and I took our two sons (age 6 and 4) at the time, and they absolutely loved it. Guess what, so did the other kids. As a parent it was silly, though not as stupid as say Sponge-Bob, but it was appropriate. There really wasn't anything in the movie that a young child shouldn't see. And no, I don't let my kids watch Transformers or Lord of the Rings at this age. They threw in a little religion in there, but in a non-forceful way, and with no real denomination. It is a movie I can properly say I felt good that my kids watched it.

Let me say it like this, Super Capers was a great and funny film. It is just like the "Austin Powers" movies mixed in with those great Disney Comedy movies. I do not understand why this film is being lableled as corny just because there aren't any A-List stars in it. If everyone would sit and listen to this movie, and stop trying to find what is wrong with it, then it will be enjoyed. This film is just like one of those old Saturday Morning Cartoons from the '60's to '80's.

In response to a previous reviewer who obviously had an aneurism watching this piece-o-crap! I send my condolences, but must disagree.

Yes! While this film is horrible, slashing the audience with some of the worst parodies imaginable, it does have a certain charm in the mind vacuuming horror of it all. Kinda like watching the Hindenburg. You see the flames, feel the emotion, and yet say to yourself, "Stupid Germans... Hydrogen... -snark- MORON!!!". Honestly, if you are of an intellectual inclination, you might actually enjoy the shear propensity of the "epic fail".

Yes! I'm giving a movie that has the capacity to liquidate brain cells a 5 star rating. [And, in case you ask, I did buy it, and watch it all the way to the credits--laughing my ass off at the degree of stupidity it provided] WHY? See 'Refuge in Audacity': [...] for clarification. Basically, this movie is so "epic fail" that you can't help laughing that someone actually invested money to make it--let alone serialized it as a "Hit Film". It's a type of genera cult classic that you have to understand to love. If you want a movie that will cause your geek friends to fall over laughing in droves from the outrageously "fail" jokes this film provides, the horrendously bad, the gosh off malady of the movie world--the director of this actually makes George Lucas' prequels good, and I mean that in the all caps "EPIC" kind of way. Astounding!--then, check this film out.

So, as it is to say, DO NOT get this film if you want an enjoyable film that provides Epic Jokes and Mel Brooks style Parody or for that matter a classic epic comic book movie; go watch Captain America: The First Avenger (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) or Spaceballs (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) or even any one of the many great comic book movies or comedies out there, don't inflict your kids to the festering madness that is bad movies. However, if you want to see even Adam West make fun of himself in the most pathetic way possible (Damn! He's good!), where even the actors know how bad the film is, then watch this. I cannot in good conscious or reason believe these people didn't realize how utterly stupid this film would be. It is in no uncertain terms the worst film I have ever been witness too, and for that I thank them. Talk about hysterical EPIC FAIL! It's like watching paint dry in slow motion IMAX in 3D. The only thing worse would be... Sorry, I can't think... Mind melts from the mere glimpse of anything worse. ;)

Seriously! Just watch. If you survive, you will die of laughter at the stupidity. If you don't, then you have died well.

This will make a great gag party movie for "what to do when you haven't had a good laugh in a while and don't mind risking a few brain cells in effigy to wrongness". For great humor and parody intended to be that, see first order comedy and stuff like Mel Brooks. If all else fails, it makes a great gift for people you otherwise dislike.

This film causes even dead brain cells to immediately jump alive and run screaming out of the nearest port hole. Yum... I do love the smell of burn gray matter in the morning.

Enjoy~!

this is one of those lame movies that you love. the characters are corney and the story is horribale. but you have to think that the makers did it like that on purpose. this is a great film.

This is budget movie, so expecting anything extrodinary would be wrong.

Overall, it has a few laughs, but the movie starts to wear thin by the halfway point. By the end I was just thankfull it was over. It was like watching a low budget TV show; which is really what this movie should have been.

A movie virtually guaranteed to wind up in the DVD bargain bin in record-setting time, "Super Capers" is an indescribably awful attempt at superhero parody. It features a group of inept comic book figures, clad in ill-fitting get-ups, who bumble and stumble their way to victory against a passel of toothless bad guys.

The movie's idea of humor consists mainly of goofy sound effects and corny musical cues playing on the soundtrack, though I suspect that their sole function is to alert us as to when we should be laughing (there`s really no other way for us to know, since, unlike a TV sitcom, it doesn`t come equipped with its own laugh track).

Out of respect for any possible careers they may still have ahead of them, the actors shall remain nameless, though Adam West (TV's Batman), Clint Howard and June Lockhart stop by to show us just how far has-been actors can be forced to lower themselves when there simply aren't any decent roles left for them anymore.

At the end, the director of this fiasco, Ray Griggs, thanks the "directors who inspired" him during his childhood, namely George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis and Peter Jackson. Sounds like the basis for a good class-action lawsuit, if you ask me.

I saw this movie advertised on another DVD I recently ordered. I am a huge superhero fan, and thought if I could get this cheap; I'd give it a shot. I thought I was lucky when I did get it cheap at Amazon. I wasn't. This movie is HORRIBLE! Though I have wasted enough time merely watching this movie, in the interest of the public good, I decided to spend a little more time here critiquing it with the hope of possibly sparing someone else some viewing agony.

AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!

This movie aspires to be like the recent parody movies "Epic Movie" or "Date Movie", only for kids. Those movies stink, but this movie is far far worse a film.

Looking at other reviews, I cannot believe that some people gave this garbage 5 stars. They must be related to someone in the film or have a stake in the profits. Simply saying "It's for kids!" does not excuse the poor writing and direction of this nightmarish catastrophe of a film. There are many low budget kids' films written intelligently that are entertaining. This is not one of them.

What makes me so angry is that the film has a good premise. Someone in a costume stops a mugging and is arrested for using overwhelming force. They assume he is a superhero, so they sentence him to become a member of a super team in training to better learn to use his "powers". So much possibility is there. But every single scene is sluggish, awkward and dull. The mediocre special effects of this film (which are actually not that bad) could have easily been overcome by better writing and direction, but they are NOT. The director should be banned from Hollywood.

The writers' idea of comedy/parody seems to be lifting entire scenes WORD FOR WORD from well known movies, and then re-creating them in this film, only adding the main characters' voice over "Hey, this is familiar! It's from `Return of the Jedi', isn't that funny?" Umm... sorry, no it's not.

I feel sorry for the lead actor of this film. The director apparently told him, "Just say the line with a smile and them mug to the camera, trust me it's funny." and he believed it. It never works, and it is tried over and over and over..... It's like they are constantly letting us in on a joke, THAT IS NOT THERE! ARGH! No matter how many times ne smiles and mugs, delivering a line from a much better film, it's not a joke, and it's never ever EVER funny.

I watched this movie alone to make sure that my 7 year old daughter could watch it. Now I refuse to let her see it because she will think I am a moron for buying this piece of garbage. And yes, I watched the whole film through the credits and was never rewarded by any sign of entertainment. To quote a famous doctor "It's dead, Jim."

PLEASE NOTE: OF ALL THE REVIEWS OF THIS MOVIE ON AMAZON, I AM THE ONLY VERiFIED AMAZON PURCHASE! I doubt some of the others (five stars) even own the movie.
THIS MOVIE IS NOT GOOD FOR KIDS OR ANYONE. AVOID!

This movie just isn't stupid funny, it is STUPID!!!! Everyone and I mean EVERYONE involved in the making of this movie needs to be dragged out of their houses and horse whipped to an inch of their lives. This movie is so bad it actually ruined the buzz I was on. What a waste...the buzz that is.

This movie starts out a little campy and fun. Then just gets stupid.
My 9 and 11 year old children thought it was boring.