NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – The only surprising thing about “Superhero Movie” is that, in an era when big-screen parodies are released seemingly every other week, it took this long for the venerable comic book genre to receive the treatment.
Otherwise a fairly standard entry that at least is better than January’s lamentable “Meet the Spartans,” this spoof demonstrates that David Zucker, one of the film’s producers, has come a long way from the glory days of “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun.”
The other distinguishing factor of the film, which was released Friday without being screened for the press, is that its screenplay doesn’t come from the usual gaggle of scribes but rather is solely the creation of Craig Mazin, who also directed. “Superhero” earned an estimated $9.5 million during its first weekend, about half of what “Spartans” opened to.
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