Todd’s Movie Blog

A new comedy is coming out to theaters called Superhero Movie.  The ads show it to be made in the mode of the Zucker Brothers/ Abrams style of comedy, a series of literal sight gags and verbal jokes, heck it even has Leslie Nielson in it.  The Patient One thinks it will be a big hit, but I’m not so sure.  Similar type comedies like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans failed miserably at the box office and I think this film will quickly sink from view.  That type of film comedy doesn’t seem to be in vogue right now, as witness the steady decline in popularity of the Scary Movie franchise.   What’s big now is a throwback to the late  seventies/ early eighties  teen sex comedies like Superbad, which are already stretching out to be more family friendly with Drillbit Taylor, which is sure to be the number one movie this weekend.  But these things are cyclical, like horror films or westerns, you just have to wait and they will become popular again.