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After his wife leaves him, a fry cook emulates a TV superhero and transforms himself into a costumed vigilante. With the help from a crazed sidekick and absolutely nothing in the way of superpowers, he beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes of saving his wife.
Super can be very affecting and emotionally disturbing, which might not suit everyone's tastes, but it's also an absorbing, bleak and sometimes funny deviation from the usual superhero fodder.
[Not] an easily digestible movie but this is ... the point - in a world where everything isn't as cut and dry as 'good versus evil', rationality is increasingly rare.
The graphic violence spatters along for an hour and a half until we reach that point when writer-director James Gunn says, "That's all I've got" and basically gives up.
A sense of style can make up for a lot at the movies. But James Gunn's brutal new comedy-thriller, "Super," succeeds only in demonstrating that without it, you may not have much of anything.
April 14, 2011
We Got This Covered
Great dark humor and enjoyable performances make this one a winner. Surprisingly, the animated sequences also work quite well.