Now, onto the movie. Good film. Definitely one of the best superhero movies this year. Easily better than The Punisher and Spider-Man 2. I wouldn't recommend it for children under 10 years old, but its definitely a good one. Definite franchise material. If they don't make a sequel or a trilogy out of this one, I would be very disappointed.
Highlights of the film:
- A reference to Jason Lee's character Brodie from several Kevin Smith films.
- Some really well choreographed action scenes reminiscent of X2.
- An intelligent villain with relatively intelligent soldiers and a hot assistant that screws him over twice. Why twice? Because Syndrome's an ex-comic book geek. How would he ever be able to get someone that hot again?
- Superheroes with the standard level of family dysfunction.
- An honest look at superhero costume design. With my own LARPing experience I can really understand the "No Capes!" part.
- Samuel L. Jackson as a relatively weak but damn smooth superhero.
- An insurance agent gets chucked through several walls. Very cathartic.
Not really much of a downside to this movie. Very little cheese. I would have liked to seen more of Jackson's character, Frozone, near the end, but there's definitely room for more of that if they come out with a sequel. Also, in regards to the woman with the elastic abilities, those had to be the three easiest births in the history of child birth.
Final Grade: A
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No time to go and sign up for an account and all, but I would like to say that I LOVED that movie. Then again, I am sort of a sucker for anything related to comic books/super heros/etc. that is done well. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see something come out of Hollywood that wasn't the same re-hashed plot of a thousand different movies before it or a sequal.
-Leah
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