They Call Me Superseven

This funny, action packed, low budget cheese fest is clearly a homage and love letter to the spy shows and movies of the 1960's. The film is influenced and pays homage to such things as James Bond, Matt Helm, Flint, Eurospy movies, "Get Smart", "The Avengers", "Man From UNCLE", "Mission: Impossible", masked wrestling movies, the Kaiju genre and much more. A 60's spy-geek junkie's dream series. Stunts, fights, action, sexy women, gadgets and a hefty body count for a comedy! The entire cast is wonderful, especially Jerry Kokich as Superseven, Olivia Dunkley as Sandra West (Politically incorrect and doing all those things you wish Emma Peel would do, if she weren't so British and nice!) and Anne Leighton as the ditsy mechanical genius, Seriously, with soooo much garbage on TV, this really needs to be a TV series and soon!

So, the filmmakers quite cleverly pulled a "Man From U.N.C.L.E.". Back in the day, "Man From U.N.C.L.E." producers took some of their two part episodes, re cut them and released them in theaters as feature films. Here, the Superseven gang, re edited episodes from season one of the series "Adventures Of Superseven" into the feature length "They Call Me Superseven". You get an 85 minute version of the 15 episodes of the first season, cut together to give the viewer a complete story arc. All of the elements and key scenes are in place. The cast is superb, Jerry Kokich IS "Superseven", with all that great Adam West delivery. Olivia Dunkley smolders as "Sandra West", one of the all time great, sexiest killing machines (With a hair trigger temper and slightly warped moral compass!). Anne Leighton just shines as the adorably naive mechanical genius "Sparky" (Who is in love with Superseven and fantasizes about being a spy and murdering Sandra West!). Fans of the series will miss some of the closing credit goofs and additional scenes, but the series is the series and the movie is the movie! It's all good, all fun and a fond throwback to the spy craze of the 1960's!

A friend turned me on to the original series on YouTube and I was hooked immediately! I started with episode 10 and then binge watched the first nine before I went on to episode 11. Being a spy fan, I'm glad I discovered this gem of a series. It has a lot of in jokes and homages that fans of my generation immediately get. Lots of nods to things like "The Prisoner", "Mission: Impossible", "The Avengers", :Get Smart", Bond and so on. I love the witty, dark humored writing and the cast is perfect, especially Jerry Kokich, channeling Adam West as "Superseven" and Olivia Dunkley as the sexy, ass kicking "Sandra West"( Who is the grand daughter of Honey West and great-great grand daughter of James West!). I also like the fact that they edited the first season into this feature. Adding scenes and adding a hot new soundtrack, much like they did when they edited "episodes of "The Man From UNCLE" into feature movies. It is a must see for fans of the genre and it will bring back some fond memories.