Super Capers 2009

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Super Capers begins as a campy tribute to comic book heroes and their 1960s and '70s TV incarnations, but quickly descends into an ineptly paced, toothless lampoon of sci-fi and fantasy films. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: A witless send-up of pop-culture detritus like light sabers, Batmobiles and "Hasta la vista, baby." Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Featuring the production values of a commercial for a local used-car dealership in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Super Capers is a pathetic grab bag of spoofs. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: You'd have to have X-ray vision to find a semblance of a plot here, yet you'd have to be blind to overlook the cheapness of the special effects and the ineptitude of the direction. Read more

Lael Loewenstein, Variety: A bizarrely misguided attempt to revive -- and spoof -- the classic B-movie, Super Capers is the kind of experience that makes you want your 93 minutes back. Read more