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Got sucked into watching this via friends. Uh, this superhero thing has gone on way past its due date. Tired, unfunny and just repetitive at this point.

Save your money and invest in a film school education.

IMDB reviewer MartinHafer dared us to find a less funny movie:

Titicut Follies?

Shoah?

The Killing Fields?

Hell, even Citizen Kane and The Shining are WAYYY funnier than this.

Anyway, the film: This is a non-stop conveyor belt of forced cocaine weirdness. Allegedly, Ackroyd truly believes that he was making a horror film and not a comedy. If that is true, then he was doing more blow than Dennis Hopper during Apocalypse Now. I dare him to prove otherwise.

Yeah, John Candy sort of saves the day. But really, what truly saves the day is just its own hubris. It just keeps on going and cramming more fake made-up weirdness down our throats so that we have no choice but to be in awe. Granted, again, it's faux cocaine and manufactured "midnight movie" weirdness.

What is it with SNL movies? Is there a real curse? I mean, is there one SNL related movie that rises above this kinda dreck? SCTV's Strange Brew shows that it can be done (Ackroyd's best casting here was, of course, John Candy from SCTV). The Kids In The Hall's Brain Candy proves it can be done excellently. So why can't these SNL people every pull it off? Some might argue that the Blues Brothers works and I might accept that; depending on how I feel that day.

This film still gets some kind of Psychotronic award or something for being so freaking OUT THERE. And out there with no map or reason to be out there! Watch it just to see the wreckage pile up! Fun!

The upper peninsula of Michigan probably is a place where one has a lot of time to play D&D. You know, long winters, etc. According to imdb, this is the director's first film; not even a short, music video or commercial! For that alone, this film gets a star.

Beyond that? Eh, maybe another for effort.

Next time, make a few commercials for the used car dealer in town first. Then maybe put a few hours in at the public access station. Maybe then attempt a short feature!