Superhero Movie
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| Directed by | Craig Mazin |
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| Written by | Craig Mazin |
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| Music by | James L. Venable |
| Cinematography | Thomas E. Ackerman |
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| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $71.2 million |
| "Superhero! Song" | |
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"Superhero! Song" cover
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| Promotional single by Drake Bell | |
| Released | April 8, 2008 (Digital download) |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | 2007-2008 |
| Genre | Pop rock |
| Length | 3:14 |
| Label | Universal Republic |
| Writer(s) | Drake Bell, Michael Corcoran |
| Producer(s) | Backhouse Mike |
Superhero Movie is a 2008 American superhero comedy film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled Superhero! as a nod to one of the Zuckers' previous films, Airplane!, in which Nielsen also starred.
A spoof of the superhero film genre, primarily the first Spider-Man, as well as other modern-day Marvel Comics film adaptations, the film follows in the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to, some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
Production began on September 17, 2007, in New York. It was released on March 28, 2008 in the United States to generally negative reviews from critics (but more positive than earlier entries such as Date Movie and Meet the Spartans) and moderate box office success, grossing over $71 million worldwide.
Rick Riker (Drake Bell) is an unpopular student at Empire High School. He lives with his Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen) and Aunt Lucille (Marion Ross), and his best friend, Trey (Kevin Hart), is also his confidante. Rick has a crush on Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton), but she is dating bully Lance Landers (Ryan Hansen). One day, Rick and his class go on a school field trip at an animal research lab run by terminally ill businessman Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald), who is Lance's uncle. During the trip, Rick accidentally saturates himself in animal-attraction liquid, which causes a group of animals to hump him. This also leads a chemically enhanced radioactive dragonfly to fly onto Rick's neck and bite him.
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