America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.
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I happened to just turn on my TV on a rainy Saturday afternoon and came upon this film on the way to another channel. I'd never heard of the film but wanted to see just a scene or two with the intention of going to something better (films on network TV, ESPECIALLY those on during a weekend generally suck.) But after seeing a slightly funny scene with Rob Lowe my interest was peaked. I continued to watch and found myself laughing out loud several times before the film ended. I can't believe I didn't know about this film! Actually, I can. The writing is superb (at least compared to what makes for a major release these days), but the director didn't have a clue. Funny, funny stuff, though. Definitely worth a viewing.
I only watched this garbage because it was shown on some cheap cable channel Sunday afternoon. It was advertised as "comedy". Boy, how wrong I was when decided to give it a go. It was simply not funny at all, has no plot and is full of mindless dialog full of filthy words in order for Americans to like it. I am stunned how most of the reviewers have regarded this so called picture as a piece of art, when it was simply a piece of something else that you can refer as excrement. When you watch all this mediocrity you often wonder how in God's sake can this be made. It is so weak it made porn movies run for mainstream Oscar. Apart from cinematographic flaws, the acting is just lame. Most of the crew needs to go to acting schools again. Acting is so bad it becomes funny at moments.No, seriously, Hollywood, stop doing turds like this one. It is really ruined your (already filthy) image anyway.Definitely a winner for Bottom 100 of all times. Shame on Rob Lowe for participating here.Avoid at all costs unless your favorite movie is "American Pie".You have been warned.100/10
This was such an incredible film. The cast was incredible, several people who I hadn't heard of before and several people who are very good actors. The movie is basically a spoof on the hero films of yore but add in a lot less actions and a good deal more curse words. The acting is superb and it's as if the actors were made for these roles. I definitely recommend seeing it! The humor definitely isn't main stream and is more subtle, but if you like that sort of thing or are a fan of any member of the cast then SEE THIS MOVIE! I'd recommend viewing the DVD because the commentary by James Gunn and the producers is hilarious.
The premise had some good possibilities. With a good script I think it would have been possible to make a really low-budget movie that could entertain. Instead it was a low- energy collection of dialogues between unmotivated characters with no story arc and little wit. In other words, it failed to even be a good "B movie".