OK before we get started I wanna tell a little story, back in 2009 me and a few friends took an awesome trip to Wizard World Chicago (or Chicago Comic Con). Of course the three of us had the most awesome four days ever but aside from that I met and chat with Abe Sapien himself Doug Jones. He then takes out this comic book autographs it and gives it to me; the comic book is called Super Capers which was apparently a comic book prequel issue. Basically it was a promotional comic book of the film which Doug Jones stars in so yeah I still got this comic up to this day even though I've never read it. But around 2011 I got the nerve to watch the film, so let’s see what's so super about this film.
We start off at a dark alley where a woman in red is followed by a creepy Clint Howard. Suddenly a guy in a goofy costume Ed Gruberman (played by Justin Whalin) appears to save her but it turns out she's a super hero named Red (played by Christine Lakin). Red disarms the creepy Clint Howard and Ed with a 2x4 knocks the creepy Clint Howard half across town. After which Ed gets arrested apparently for superhero abuse; long story short at a courtroom the judge (played by Michael Rooker) gives Ed a chance to develop is superhero status at a halfway house for superheroes called Super Capers. Ed arrives at the halfway house via Adam West Batman batmobile taxi service...I don't know if I should find this funny or sad. Ed is introduce to other Super Caper members such as Felicia Freeze (played by Danielle Harris), Herman Brainard (played by Samuel Lloyd), Herbert (or Q which he calls himself)(played by Oliver Muirhead). Will Powers (played by Ryan McPartlin), Puffer Boy (played by Ray Griggs), and Sarge (played by Tommy "Tiny" Lister). A little bit later Sarge calls the team out on a mission to stop a villain Captain Sludge (played by Jon Polito) from hi-jacking armored bank trucks. The team head out in an RV that's fashioned out after the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine built by Herbert Q, I'm not kidding the thing even has the freaking Time Flux Capacitor. The running gag here is that Herbert Q is a huge movie buff so whatever gadgets he makes are pretty much rip offs from popular films. Anyway they arrived at a bridge where the armored trucks are robbed by an awesome looking Minotaur; no joke there's a Minotaur in this film. The team conflicts Captain Sludge and Minotaur but you can imagine that these heroes are made of useless. So it's now Ed's turn to fight by...praying and it works, a street lamp post falls on the minotaur knocking it unconscious forcing Captain Sludge to retreat. Later a trip to the laundry mat, Ed and Herman spot the judge from earlier putting suspicious bags in the trunk of his limo and leaves Ed and Herman follows him. They follow the judge to the middle of nowhere dumps out the bags and leave Ed goes to look inside the bag to find gold bullion and immediately goes all Gollum. No really the guy goes all Gollum for a bag full of gold and he doesn't even tell Herman about it, nice going dude you're on your way of being a superhero.
Back at the house The Super Capers are approached by agents....hi Doug Jones....who is there to questioned Ed in the involvement of the missing bag of gold....OOPS. So Ed acting like a complete idiot tries to deny about the gold but made the situation worst resulting Ed and the other getting arrested. Ed is taking to the judge's home to find Red working for the judge and to find out that the judge is Ed's childhood hero Dark Winged Vesper. The judge this whole time set Ed up with him joining the Super Capers, set him up with the missing gold in order to have Ed join the judge and to one day become the next Dark Winged Vesper. We cut to the other Super Capers about to be taken out by Captain Sludge and a few henchmen but they fought back and Puffer Boy escapes to rescue Ed. The next scene that follows I kid you not the dialogues exchange between Ed and the judge are straight out of Return of the Jedi...seriously. And the funniest thing about it the two characters noticed this and they try to stop reciting almost every line, yeah it maybe a silly scene but my god it's funny. Anyway it's revealed that the judge is Ed's dad....BUM BUM BAAAA....before Puffer Boy pops in and helps Ed to escape. Ed reaches to the Super Capers' RV and drives off while Captain Sludge gives chase; the chase ends with Ed accidentally drives off a cliff. And here it gets dumb; Ed starts praying for God to save him and then starts talking that if he dies at least he'll get to hang out with God. But apparently God doesn't want that and hey who can blame the lord, so through an act of God the RV travels one week back in time saving Ed. So Ed uses this opportunity to stop the judge, Ed arrives at the armored truck robbery from earlier he bumps into the bridge which cause the street lamp post to fall on the Minotaur. Ed gets out of the RV before it falls to the ground (but it actually disappeared in mid-fall) he stops the judge and orders Will to stop Captain Sludge. Oh what now there are two Eds right now but don't worry the film takes care of that problem. The "future" Ed and "present" Ed touch and the "present" Ed poofs out of existence, see problem solved. So the film ends with Ed and rest of the Super Capers save the day and drives off in the "present" RV.
My Final Verdict: Sure this film is no Mystery Men but it still got some good funny moments here and there. So I guess it's worth watching if you’re into something this goofy and dumb but if you don't think so then no worries it's probably not worth watching. Next time we're looking into the 2011 remake of a 1985 film Fright Night stay tuned.
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