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Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: "Super" strikes a wildly uneven tone lurching between occasionally funny dark comedy, heavy-handed religious satire and some pretty hardcore violence. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It may sound like Super is trying too hard to shock, trying too hard to be edgy or weird. But it has such a low-budget charm, it's pretty hard to resist. Besides, if you don't, you risk incurring the wrath of The Crimson Bolt. And you don't want that. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: If Gunn had a sense of how to shape a scene, or how to shoot a scene attractively, then his film would just be dull. As it is, it's criminally inept. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Super" rides on the carefully bent performances of its stars. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Super represents the indie world at its snobbiest and most faux provocative. Read more
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: For all its indie posturing, Super feels as callow as any other big studio flick to court Comic Con: A B-movie splatter flick dressed up as a critique, dressed up as a black comedy, dressed up as a spoof, and capped with an ironic epilogue. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: A sense of style can make up for a lot at the movies. But James Gunn's brutal new comedy-thriller, "Super," succeeds only in demonstrating that without it, you may not have much of anything. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Of all the entries in the average-schmo-tries-to-be-a-superhero genre - and that would certainly include last year's "Kick-Ass'' - "Super'' succeeds the best by putting its audience in the most uncomfortable position. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: This movie is too pedestrian for camp, and too scattershot for an action comedy. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Wilson does amusingly steely work, while Page goes bonkers, giving her gleeful nut job one of the more memorable horselaughs in recent American film history. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Super just doesn't fly. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one: Frank's ''crusade'' is just a geek's screw-loose revenge, which Wilson, digging into the character's misery, makes oddly sympathetic. Read more
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: A giddily over-the-top, super-entertaining goof on the Everyman crimefighter flick written and directed with evident relish by James Gunn. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "Super" flings around its dingy shocks with little feel for context, wit or filmmaking skill. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The spectacle soon wearies and repels. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: "Super" starts off feeling like a cult comedy you might catch during a midnight film festival. But since Gunn never nails his tone, the concept makes more sense than the execution. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A lot less funny than it sounds. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Could be endearing, if Wilson's performance weren't so nihilistically dull, and if there were somebody in the picture who had a soul. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Super plunges into nihilistic despair in its third act. This isn't a black comedy because it isn't a comedy. It's a trick played on our expectations, I concede, but to what end? Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I think "Super" is occasionally brilliant, sometimes awful and terribly confusing overall; this movie reminds me of an old Irish joke about the ancient and terrifying housekeeper who asks the young priest whether he enjoyed his egg. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Shows us a nebbish who becomes a costumed crime fighter without telling us anything interesting about nebbishes or crime fighters. Read more
Nathan Heller, Slate: As a movie, Super is unfocused and bafflingly inconsistent. It is also the most genuinely surprising new release I've seen in a long time. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Super" could use the certitude of its hero, but the weapon it wields instead is a scalpel to see what's inside us. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Offers genuine empathy with the put-upon protagonist's longing for justice, yet plays the bloody ramifications for cartoonish fun. Read more
Rob Nelson, Variety: Waiting for Super to deliver the funny is an experience as long as the film itself. Read more
Karina Longworth, Village Voice: Conceptually similar to last spring's bullied-teen-dons-tights-to-fight flick Kick-Ass, Super distinguishes itself with a deliberate tonal unevenness that's unsettling and annoying. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Most of the time it isn't clear whether Gunn is critiquing violence or celebrating it. Read more