A Masterpiece!

In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I enjoy a good parody flick every now and then, and this would have been better if they kept the dopey juvenile stuff out of it. Paul Reubens in the cast with his gimmick was just asking for trouble; I was waiting for the zits on his face to move around like Marty Feldman's hump in "Young Frankenstein" and that didn't happen, so there was an opportunity missed. Hank Azaria as The Blue Raja and William H. Macy as the Shoveler were about the best the picture had to offer as they played their parts both ways, serious and funny.For old time TV and movie fans, let me pose a question - didn't the man under the Sphinx mask look like it might have been an aged Jay Silverheels? I know, he was long gone by the time this film came out, but that's the reaction I had. So I checked out Wes Studi's photo gallery here on IMDb and one can notice the resemblance.The thing that really surprised me in the story was how the evil Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) rigged up that vaporizer to reduce Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) to ashes, and he stayed dead! What!!?? That's not supposed to happen! Super-hero deaths are never supposed to be as certain as death and taxes, so I was shocked that no one thought of a way to reanimate his remains. Maybe in a sequel? Well, I don't know. I thought this would be a little better than it turned out to be, but I do appreciate some of the more clever gimmicks like Raja's silverware dexterity and the super-hero tryout routine. Seeing Louise Lasser as Raja's Mom once again was kind of neat too, doing a senior citizen rendition of Her Mary Hartman character. I guess if you're on the fence about watching this one, I'd have to say, 'What the fork, just do it'.

The scale of bad movies is so vast it is sometimes difficult to keep a clear perspective. But I must say this film must be one of the worst, if not THE worst movie I ever saw. I bet even the Star Wars Christmas Special is hardly worse than this.What is truly enraging is that someone (or something) authorized to spend 65m$ on this crap. AND lots of big name actors (Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Reubens, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush, Eddie Izzard, Claire Forlani, Tom Waits, Ricky Jay and Lena Olin) committed to this 'project'. Why? Can someone explain that to me. It must be some sort of large scale blackmail operation where they had some incriminating stuff on all these actors, no-one in their right mind would willingly want to be in this film if they read the script.Everything is terrible: the plot, the VFX are sh1t, the production design has horrendous colors and everything looks plastic and cardboard. The acting is so awful all the razzies handed out in the history of the razzies would still not be able to cover it. It is supposed to be a comedy, but there is NOTHING funny in this movie, nada. You probably don't believe me. Heck I thought 54.000 people gave it a 6/10 on IMDb, it must be okay at least. Well it's not. The film lasts an incredibly long 2 hours during which you will feel like you're dying. I literally got a headache from this film. Some of these scenes you can't begin to describe. It's an insult to the art of filmmaking. I kept staring at the screen in disbelief! I wonder if kids would like this but I wouldn't recommend showing it to them. I'm sure it will cause some sort of long term brain damage.I challenge you to see it. It's not one of those 'it's so bad it's good' films. It's just bad through and through. There are no redeeming qualities, nothing. Look, if you seen it and liked it, leave me a PM and explain it to me. I really would like to know what there is to like. You've been warned! Save 2 precious hours of your life and enjoy your time on this planet instead of p1ssing it away on sh1t that should never have been.

Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) and the Shoveler (William H. Macy) are rather incompetent superheroes of Champion City. They are rescued by the endorsement-obsessed Captain Amazing/tycoon Lance Hunt (Greg Kinnear). All the big villains are gone. When he loses an endorsement, Captain Amazing helps Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) get parole from the asylum in hopes of fighting him for the popularity. Tony P (Eddie Izzard) and the disco boys join Casanova and his psychiatrist Dr. Anabel Leek (Lena Olin) to reign terror in the city. Captain Amazing is captured by Casanova and Furious leads the group to try to rescue him. However the disco boys are too competent and the gang needs to recruit new superheroes. Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) can only be invisible when nobody is watching him. The Spleen (Paul Reubens) can fart at will rendering the target unconscious. The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) has a bowling ball with her heroic father's possessed skull. The gang is rescued by the Spinx (Wes Studi) who can mentally cut guns in half. Doc Heller (Tom Waits) makes non-lethal weapons.There are two characters that are actually funny. The rest are deliberately quirky without being funny. Spleen is funny. Fart jokes will always work and Reubens is great at it. Garofalo is kinda funny at times. Her big contribution is that she makes others funnier especially Stiller. Furious is silly but not that funny until he starts arguing with Garofalo. The movie is too overloaded with characters. The concept is fun. When it hits, it's hilarious. Even when it misses, it's still kinda cute.

I am spinal injuredI saw this when I was younger and thought it was incredibly stupid. I thought that over time I had become more accepting of slapstick films and gave it another try..... No, I was right the first time. Horrible. It has a couple of clever lines but immediately in the first scene of the film you start to wonder if the writer(s) were still in middle school. The jokes are often random and go off on a tangent. I suffered through it hoping it might end with at least one good laugh. I felt so bad for leaving this on while my wife was in the room I immediately cooked her dinner and dessert and admitted that it was truly one of the most painful films i've ever seen (up there with catwoman i'd say). On the upside if you like movies like "dude, wheres my car" and "spy kids", then you'll love this heaping pile of dung.