A super movie

Super (2010)

Wow, this movie took me by surprise. I was really thinking about passing this one as it looked like just another comedy about a guy who decides to be a superhero. But it just might be the best of it's kind. The basic idea is of course very similar to Defendor (2009) and Kick-Ass (2010), but to be honest I don't want to compare this to them as they all are different in their own way and there's enough room for all of them in the world. So I'll just say this is a darker and grittier version of them. Frank (Rainn Wilson) is a fast food restaurant cook whose wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), has started to use drugs again and leaves Frank for a drug dealer called Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Frank in his deepest sorrow gets a sort of a divine intervention from a Christian super hero The Holy Avenger (Nathan Fillion) and decides to start fighting crime as a home made superhero. His goal is to get his wife from the drug dealer and his gang. He gets help from a comic book store worker called Libby (Ellen Page) and together they set out to rid the streets from crime. The style is realistic and quite gritty without holding any punches. The cast is quite brilliant and especially Ellen Page is simply hilarious. The comedy is dark, actually it's pitch black at times and it's brilliantly mixed with drama. Also the drama is not just your basic stock drama, it's actually quite devastating especially towards the end. There's even some very violent action in it that's certainly not comic like in others of it's kind. So it's definitely not your average superhero comedy, it's far more than that. It's very hard to describe the feel I got from this movie, it was thought provoking, it made me laugh, it shocked me, it made me feel sad, it made me feel good and some times all of those at once. All I can say I really loved it and it's the best movie I've seen this year.
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