Superhero Movie

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “Undiscriminating comedy fans hungering for the High School High of superhero parodies need look no further.”

  Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club · 58

• “Given the abysmal quality of recent spoof pics, it's saying something that Superhero Movie provides a fairly steady stream of midsized laughs -- and even the 40% or so of gags that just lie there aren't actively painful.”

  Dennis Harvey, Variety · 50

• “How can you tell the target age for Superhero Movie is exactly 13 1/2 years? Because most of the jokes are Internet-related.”

  Ty Burr, Boston Globe · 50

• “The very act of writing critically about Superhero Movie inspires something of an existential crisis -- no one likely to turn out for it is reading this review, and anybody reading this review is probably not inclined to see it under any circumstances.”

  Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times · 50

• “Puerile and idiotic it may be, but Superhero Movie is nonetheless smarter than most of its lowbrow brethren in the Hollywood sub-sub-category known as the spoof movie.”

  Jason Anderson, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 50