Super

Super sucked. It's like a poor man's Kick-Ass with far less impressive production values, comparable needless violence and similar abandonment of its premise in the final act. As if that's not enough, it features two entirely superfluous rape scenes that just get glossed over. While in this movie, the level of violence seemed less gratuitous, it seemed (at least from what I can remember about Kick-Ass) that a lot of the violence was inflicted on people who were less 'deserving' of it, which made it equally unnecessary and uncomfortable to watch. The role didn't seem to suit Rainn Wilson and he didn't strike me as a particularly good actor because of it, at least for the first half; while I liked him in The Office, I don't know if he has much versatility if this is anything to go by. Ellen Page was by far the best part of the movie and it seemed that because her character's so obviously deranged, her violence seemed to fit in with the tone the film was going for better. At least it comes across as being aware that its violence is needless and some of the character's do bring this up and show remorse sometimes, unlike in Kick-Ass where it's just "hurr look at all this violence what a great satire". But eugh, those stupid unnecessary goddamn rape scenes that they just pretend never happened and which the characters gets over in a heart-beat. If you're going to attempt to tackle female-on-male rape, then at least have it mean something, don't just brush it off right away. It's like they just used it to resolve a romantic subplot rather than even treating it like rape. And then right after that happens, you're still expected to sympathise with her character? When the gender roles get reversed with another pair later on, the female character's obviously traumatised and rightly so, but noooo, if it's a male getting raped, it's okay to trivialise it, isn't it? Screw you too, movie. Also howdonumberplatesandgunsandpolicework. I'd watch Holy Avenger if it was a real show.

A Super Zero movie, love it, especially the scene during the theater queue !