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SciFi Wire Lashes Out at “Super Capers”

March 20th, 2009
Author Russ Burlingame

The new film Super Capers, the latest in a growing line of movies (including Hancock, Superhero Movie,The Incredibles and My Super Ex-Girlfriend) that takes the superhero genre a little less seriously and relies more on Giffen and DeMatteis than on Wein and Morrison for their Justice League archetypes, took the kind of beating over at Sci Fi Wire that one usually needs superpowers to deliver. Seriously, reviewer Fred Topel seems to take what he perceives as the movie’s badness very personally, prompting the first of his talkback comments to ask him to ease up. Starring Christine Lakin, whose work I’m unfamiliar with but who was in last week’s #1 release, Escape From Witch Mountain, and featuring supporting work from Mallrats‘ Michael Rooker and Adam West of Batman and Family Guy fame, the movie itself is in (very) limited theatrical release around the country.

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3 Responses to “SciFi Wire Lashes Out at “Super Capers””
  1. Shaun Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Russ, are you honestly comparing stuff like this movie (and the creatively titled “Superhero Movie”) to The Incredibles?

    One is a clever work of genius (The Incredibles, natch) that could easily be seen as a fun, family version of Watchmen (yes, I went there). The other two are just cheap-ass, low budget parody films. The kind that don’t last more than a couple of weeks in theatres generally, but that’s usually enough to make a few quick bucks. It must be, because someone keeps churning stuff like that out year after year. “Scary Movie,” stuff like that.

    I didn’t see Hancock, so I don’t know if it was any good or not, but I’m sure that had more merit than this stuff. I do find it funny that someone writing for the website of the soo-to-be “SyFy” would take such offense though… I’d say Super Capers is probably on par with most of their original programming. Oh snap!

  2. Russ Burlingame Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Lumping The Incredibles in with these things isn’t a statement on quality. It’s just in the same genre. It’s like saying that Citizen Kane, Dirty Sexy Money and Richie Rich all have to do with people whose lifestyles are altered by having a lot of money. There’s no implication that the works are of similar quality, but you can’t deny that there is that one common thread. My point was that there are a lot of films out there now, where mainstream (read: non-comics) movie folks are trying to put the superhero in unusual contexts.

  3. Shaun Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Gotcha Russ… I was just surprised to see those films lumped together. No offense taken, no harm done.

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