Just recently watched James Gunn's SUPER on DVD and was really disappointed by it. It wasn't the ridiculous reviews that got me initially excited about this film (5 stars from Little White Lies, 4 stars from Empire - really?) or the fact that it supposedly went down really well at Kapow. It was the director's previous movie- the gloriously silly monster horror comedy SLITHER that had me anticipating this films release more than others.
I wouldn't say that this is a particularly bad movie, it just doesn't quite work. Rainn Wilson can't do the Man-Child thing anywhere near as well as Will Ferrell, so the comedy moments aren't that funny. The crazy bits just aren't WTF! enough and the violence just does not sit well alongside everything else. Also, I couldn't help but feel sorry for Liv Tyler and Ellen Page. Both deserve better than this. Not even the great Kevin Bacon (the best thing here) can save this movie. For a much more interesting alternative to KICK-ASS check out SPECIAL, starring Michael Rappaport. It actually pre-dates Matthew Vaughan's' movie by a couple of years and, unlike SUPER, is actually quite good.
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