Sûpâkabu

Right, well all I knew about "Sûpâkabu" (aka "Super Cub") when I sat down to watch it, was that it was a Japanese movie. That was actually also all I essentially needed to know in order to actually sit down and watch it.

The movie starts out sort of in the spirit of "The Fast and the Furious", and already there is my interest in watching the movie starting to dwindle fast. Why? Because I have zero interest in motorized vehicles. I don't have any particular need for speed and I can't see what is so alluring about motors and fast vehicles.

Yet, I managed to endure 30 minutes of the ordeal that is "Super Cub", then I simply quit from pure and utter boredom. The storyline had zero appeal to me, and the characters had zero appeal to me. And I highly doubt that director Atsushi Muroga would manage to turn the tide of the movie and win me over. However, I am not planning ever to return to watch the rest of the movie, so I will never know.

Fast motorcycles? - Check. Pointless storyline? - Check. Equally pointless characters? - Check.

Not all movies that make it from the Japanese cinema are pure gold, and "Super Cub" was one of those movies. I am sure that there is an audience out there for it, just look at the "Fast and the Furious" movies. But for me, this was a massive swing and an even bigger miss. There was nothing in this movie, and I mean that seriously, nothing, that caught my interest.

I suppose you can say someone added diesel to a tank that would only support gasoline, and the end result, well that was known as "Super Cub".