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Parodying superhero movies from the guts of cinema itself is the goal of this French comedy that uses metalanguage for laughter. The action scenes are the funniest of the lot
An entertaining, unassuming French comedy that takes advantage of the tireless fashion of superhero movies to offer the respectable a fast-paced parody with a few flashes of good humor weighed down by some dirty jokes that may remind us of a certain cinema of yesteryear that was sweeping video stores. With the exception of the funny representation of the blushing intrusive thoughts of a secondary character, a recurring gag throughout the tight footage – just over 80 minutes, how wonderful – that can invite laughter to the nostalgic viewer of the time of the uncovering, ‘Super… who?’ convinces, with some unexpected spark. The action scenes work well, the best of the cake, with the right soundtrack, to the point of leaving you wanting more. The choreographies of blows, jumps, explosions and the exchange of bullets stand out, with some remarkable sequence that many proposals within the genre led by DC and Marvel already wanted. Directed by the comic actor Philippe Lacheau (‘City Hunter and cupid’s perfume’), who, in turn, stars in the film and co-writes it, as if Joaquín Reyes or Ernesto Sevilla did the same in these parts (with the exception of Santiago Segura, Few dare to show themselves as the complete author, while in other cinematographies it is usual).
‘Super… who?’ It also proposes a story of cinema within cinema, taking advantage of the knowledge of the ins and outs of a shoot and what happens around it, to find hilarious situations that include some direct reference to well-known titles of supertypes in tights. There is no lack of criticism of the nonsense of the world while an absurd story is unraveled that is based on the idea of an ordinary actor with amnesia after an accident who believes he is a champion of justice. Chosen as the protagonist in the casting of ‘Badman’, evident exploitation of ‘Batman’, after a succession of coincidences, he suffers a head-on collision while driving the props vehicle, the badmobile, outside of work. When he wakes up in the car after the accident, he does not remember who he is, but everything points, from naivety, to the fact that he is a superhero. The clothing and other objects around him indicate this, although they are fake, but his damaged mind builds the story in favor of his status as a defender of good with powers. His delusional behavior, from this twist in the script, allows Lacheau and his team to unfold cartoonish scenes of entanglement that seek the complicity of the public. Faces of the French family comedy complete the cast: Michel Crémadès (‘The Last Mercenary’), Jean-Hugues Anglade (‘The Great Bath’), Tarek Boudali (‘Marry Me! Please’), Élodie Fontan (‘Se it got out of hand’) or Alice Dufour (‘Complices.com’).