Movie: Superhero Movie	In Theaters:	March 28, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, drug references, and language.	Gecko Rating:

If you’re a teenaged boy — or have one in the house — Superhero Movie might enter your life at some point. It’s one of those goofy, boy-humor movies with plenty of crude humor — including an opening scene with various animals and birds humping a person all at the same time, and a fart scene that goes on for several minutes.

Like Epic Movie and Date Movie, Superhero Movie spoofs other movies in that genre, including Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, and so on and so forth.

Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is an awkward high schooler mooning over a blonde classmate, Jill (Sara Paxton). When he’s bitten by a genetically engineered dragonfly, he’s transformed into a superhero…well, sort of…

More after the jump…

His feats of greatness tend to go oh so wrong, like when he pushes an old lady out of the path of an oncoming truck, and she lands in a woodchipper with her feet hanging out and her little dog still on his leash, being pulled into the chipper, too.

Uh huh, that’s pretty much the way things go here. As you might imagine, there’s a maniacal villain out to destroy the world (Christopher McDonald), a devoted but clueless aunt (Marion Ross of Happy Days), a dirty-minded uncle (Leslie Nielsen), a sidekick (Kevin Hart), and a bald guy in a wheelchair (Tracy Morgan).

In a take-off of Batman Begins, Rick doesn’t witness his parents’ death, he accidentally shoots them himself. At Dr. Xavier’s “School for the Non-Asian Gifted” — a la X-Men — he sees assorted mutants, including a steroid-challenged Barry Bonds (Sean Simms), and a big-bosomed Invisible Woman (Pamela Anderson). In a strangely weird cemetery scene, his dirty-minded uncle climbs into a coffin and tries to hump a corpse. And there’s some horribly distasteful jokes surrounding a Stephen Hawking-type character in a wheelchair.

Just take every stupid, insulting, crude joke you can think of, and cram them all into one movie. That’s Superhero Movie. It’s not that I’m against movie spoofs. They can be done well — the Scary Movie franchise was pretty good, as spoofs go.

But I’m begging you to skip this movie, and don’t let your kids see it, either!

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