SUPERHERO MOVIE Was AHEAD OF ITS TIME 

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“Titanium blades. They cut through DIAmonds.” “I’m not WEARING any diamonds!”

The excuses at the dinner scene was fucking hilarious

The reboot should star Josh Peck as Drake Bells characters more successful brother.

“We have a girl who can walk through walls” *phases* “We have a girl who THINKS she can walk through walls” *SLAMS INTO WALL*

"Some of the jokes have aged really badly" Shows a joke that is even funnier now than then 🤣🤣

speaking of superhero parody Megamind gets overlooked for this very reason and gets called "generic" but it's a great genre parody

This and Hellboy 1 for sure.

The Dragonfly's costume is the best looking Green Lantern suit we'll ever get.

If set aside the spoof from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Dragonfly has an actual potential to be its own serious solo movie

They don’t make parodies like they use to, man I wish this got a sequel 🤣

"Make fun of the DCEU" Warner Btos seem to doing that themselves with almost every movie they make.

The first scary movie was written by the wayans brothers, Shawn and Marlon, and directed by their older brother keenan. That's why its so different from the rest!

This movie will forever have a special place in my heart because it was the movie I took my now wife on our first date...

Craig Mazin is the same guy who's working on The Last of Us and the Borderlands movie.

The best part about this is movie is that it STILL holds up today, most spoof movies just stupid stupid, but this was a little different from the usual and that’s appreciated Plus I LOVED the Dragonfly suit, could’ve seriously been something more potentially if someone got it serious to take it on

No fuckin way. I love this movie and would never have thought in a million years you'd cover it.

"Make fun of the MCU" Deadpool: Am I a joke to you?

I remember watching it in theaters as a kid. This movie doesn't always work, but when it does, it really has that Raimi Charm.

For the record here, while Friedberg and Seltzer did HELP write Scary Movie, Shawn and Marlon Wayans primarily wrote it and Keenan Ivory Wayans directed it. Scary Movie is leaps and bounds a better spoof movie than any of the solo Friedberg and Seltzer written/directed movies. They seemed like understudies who just didn't "get" how to make spoofs work, which is why all of their spoof movies were trash.

I love the Hourglass’s explanation as to why he’s obviously not crazy as “Crazy is: hearing voices, talking to cats, dating Paula Abdul.”

This isn’t a movie, but the Harley Quinn show captures the ridiculousness of super hero stories in a very creative and enjoyable manner. It’s also fucking hilarious.

"I AM THE HOURGLASS!!! AND YOUR TIME IS UP!!!"

I’m so glad that this movie is getting the recognition it deserves and the fact that it’s by one of my favorite RU-vidrs makes it even better. My friend and I discovered this movie back in 2018 and I’ve watched it at least 20+ times since then. It’s absolutely hilarious and it never gets old and I’ll never be bored watching it. Also this is random but my dogs name is Otis lmfao.

"I'd like to stay Dragonfly but I don't have the time" The jokes are so bad they're good 😭

I say it before and will say it again: there needs to be a SUPERHERO REBOOT MOVIE, in wich a running joke is teasing but never delivering a Drake Bell cameo, and also halfway throught the movie they stop to announce to the character that Disney just bought it, you see the film crew being replaced for another one and a bunch of random characters from other franchises (Star Wars, the Muppets, Jack Sparrow, whatever) arrive meanwhile the Dragonfly is confused and tries to convince executives to let him at least finnish the movie before integrate it to a Cinematic Universe. I also had a joke about The Boys but its commentary was more on the comicbook that on the tv show so it may not work

The Wayans brothers wrote “Scary Movie”. The only reason Jason Friedberg has his name attached is because Dimension purchased a Scream parody treatment he was working on, just so they didn’t have any competition at the box office (none of his ideas made it to screen).

They should've made a serious version of Dragonfly too. The idea of a dragonfly themed hero is cool.

"The victim, Lucille, was badly injured" "How was she injured?" "Badly"

Man there ain’t no out of date jokes man, it just adds nostalgia to the period this movie was in

That interview with Craig and what he said about comedy writers being able to pull off the shift to drama is surprisingly spot on, I could NOT believe that Todd Phillips was a writer and director for Joker with such a singular vision, the man that made The Hangover trilogy and yet pulled it off so well (in my opinion, I know the movie becomes more divisive with time)

"How come we have a million dollars, while they have nothing?" "Well son, it's because I inherited a billion dollars and made some bad business decisions."

*"Take out the glass with another pieces of glass"* *HG: Doctor you genius* *Doc: Wikipedia.* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This film has genuine funny moments. I vividly remember the scene, where the dragonfly tires to make a costume. When he finally settle on his green design and puts it on, he realizes that he can’t breathe in it and can’t see, almost suffocating in the process. This could have just been a funny gag, but in the rest of the movie, he does run around in that costume, just with some hastily cut holes in it. In a way, this scene does have a good narrative line and it works.

It was a disservice to call it ",,,, Movie" at the time when the cookie cutter (bad) "spoofs" at the time were all doing that. It is important to note that David Zucker, one of the people responsible for Airplane!, Top Secret, Hot Shots, and The Naked Gun, was a producer on this movie and you see the difference in how it works compared to the other spoofs of the time. One peculiarity of the Zucker/ Abrahams movies, that they admittedly learned with Top Secret! back in the early 80's, is that a good spoof needs to be about something- have a story. Almost all the spoof movies of the 2000's were just a collection of vignettes and 'jokes' they wanted to hit, with some excuse for a plot to merely connect one scene with the next so they could move on to the next pop culture reference. The Zucker bros. built their jokes on top of a plot that could work on its own. Airplane! was a literal remake of Zero Hour but it is a perfect example of this technique: they took a movie that wasn't a comedy, kept the structure and bits, and built the humor on top having the actors play it straight as if they were doing the serious version of the movie. They did the same with Hot Shots, Naked Gun, etc: they may have had some clearly comedic/exaggerated moments but take the spoof out and you end up with movies that, while not grown breaking, work perfectly fine in their intended genre. Superhero Movie works the same way: take the spoof comedy elements out and there is a serviceable superhero film not unlike the Spiderman (which is the basis for the film, of course). Actors are playing like this is the character's reality unlike the other spoofs at the time where everyone was winking at the camera to see if the audience got the joke or pop culture reference. It is not the best spoof but it is much better than it gets credit for, and certainly miles above the "Epic/Disaster/etc Movie" at the time.

It's even funnier when you realize the same guy who plays the dragonfly would later go on to voice Spider-Man in the ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.

"Titanium blades! These can cut through diamonds" "jokes on you, I'm not wearing any diamonds" Best part of the whole movie.

*Hourglass makes a time pun* Browntable: "Superhero Movie was ahead of it's time" Was... was that on purpose?

“Titanium blades, they can cut through diamonds.” “I’m not wearing any diamonds.” I think about this scene often.

YES! This movie is a comedy masterpiece, I remember people hating it at the time but I still love It to this day. Never expected you would cover it tbh.

I actually have a soft spot for this movie. Its much better than the Friedberg/Seltzer stuff.

I just watched this movie last night. The timing is incredible!!!

I remember the first time I saw this movie. I was a kid and I was absolutely cackling during the batman origin story spoof. I regularly quote "I'm not WEARING any diamonds". This was so fun

Yeah when I noticed that the writer and director of Superheroe Movie was the guy that made Chernobyl (the show) posible I jumped as crazy. Anyway what a hilairous film, one of my guilty pleasures and favorite spoof film. So sad that other spoof films from 2000 and 2010s are so but really BAD.

In Brazil this movie is such a big part of our meme culture. I love it, and I think not a lot of people talk about this masterpiece enough.

I love this movie and the theme song! Such a shame what Drake Bell did.

Dudeee this was one of my favourite movies when it came out. I rewatched it at the start of quaruntine and I’m surprised at how well it held up (for a parody movie at least). It’s so great! This movie had to walk so Deadpool could run!

this movie is so underrated as one of the mid 2000's parody movies, i know they were all mostly disaster movie, date movie, and epic movie, but this one is still funny to me, esspecially the dinner and kitchen scenes

4:49 Years later and this live painting gag still cracks me up to this very day XD

I’m so glad this movie’s getting the recognition it deserves, I always maintained that Superhero Movie was way better than the other ‘Movie’ movies (other than Scary Movie 3 which is a stone cold classic).

dude, I had this exact conversation with a friend last year, we were talking about how super hero movies changed and how it's the perfect time for a sequel, of course Drake Bell hadn't yet been revealed to be an asshole so our biggest concern was Leslie Nielsen's absence in the movie :/ so yeah, I think a reboot with a new cast might work great, explore other talents, I personally think Bill Hader would work great with the style of comedy this movie had, and now that people are suddenly realizing he's a good actor maybe people would pay more attention to the "heart" of the movie, idk

Some Brazilian dudes actually inserted the dub of this movie into the dinner scene of Spider-Man 1. Seeing Willem Dafoe saying "Excuse me, I've shit myself" is the best thing ever.

You make a really good argument but the fact that they gave it the "Scary Movie" poster style hurt its chances at being somewhat marketable as at that point everyone had given up on that franchise and even the spoof movie genre.

Lol, I was just fvcking yesterday watching a recopilation of funniest scenes of this movie. What a coincidence!

I remember thinking that, at its heart, it still had a good 'moral' more or less: The main character couldn't gain his last power, flight, until he also gained confidence in himself, something he was lacking in his 'civillian' identity.

I showed my dad some of the scenes from this movie, and he cried laughing. This movie will never get old.

Finally a review that doesn't just talk shit about the movie!

I feel so happy when Browntable makes a banger video that gets recognition by the algorithm.

“Make fun of the superhero shows that analyze superhero shows.” Dude, I didn’t know I needed this until now. That’s fucking amazing

Calling Drake Bell garbage hasn’t aged well now that we understand MUCH more about him

This is going to be interesting!

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Drake Bell reprises his role as Dragon Fly in Spider-Man No Way Home. 🕷

You just gave me inspiration to write a modern day spoof superhero film! 😅 Awesome video though Browntable, this movie was definitely ahead of its time.

ANOTHER BROWNTABLE BANGER??! ALREADY???

My idea is that we call the new movie "Superhero Movie Sequel" and have it be a parody of Spider-man: Homecoming. Except Iron Man is replaced with the original Dragonfly and Peter Parker is replaced with the new Dragonfly or a hero who's based on someone else.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE so much as a kid HAHA

I remember watching this movie years ago and really liking it and now this movie keeps getting recommended to me on RU-vid for free with ads and now a video essay about this movie I think this is a sign that I need to watch this movie again.

Honestly, the video was great. As soon as it was over, I was like “Why is it so short.” I’m subbed to so many people that it doesn’t matter. But you earned my sub and I’ll definitely check out some more of your vids. This was fantastic.

They should make a reboot movie called the amazing Dragonfly with Josh peck as the star.

stephen hawking was so funny in this movie and the outro of this video LOOL

I’ve been getting Superhero movie clips blasted in my recommended and I’m not complaining

*Reads title* Me: “I thought I was the only one!?”

If only this movie was animated, animation can do more than live action., the movie is funny but imagine if it was animated.

Personally, I consider that The Boys' got a series at all, because let's face it the comic fucking sucks compared to almost anything DC or Marvel, is because the producers knew we needed a spoof on the Superhero movie craze, but they also knew that we appreciate extreme gore and cool effects more than slapstick humor and poorly made puppets and CGI.

i’m so happy somebody else saw this movie growing up

I remember watching this on DVD with my dad and sister who just happened to pop it. Fun times

Absolutely loved this video! It’s one of my all time favourite spoof films… but my favourite is *”Not Another Teen Movie”* which you totally should make a video on. It’s not just good spoof film but a genuinely good film too… ☺️

I honestly thought this movie was just a fever dream that I had

I remember watching this as a kid and enjoying it too I’m glad someone finally Acknowledged it’s existence Thanks brown table

Bro, I actually love you for doing this. Me and a close friend of mine always talk about this film and how underrated it is along with how no one talks about it. Well now thankfully, someone is!! Not at the best time though 😂😂😂

Super Hero Movie is the only one of the "Movie" -movies I unironically love. Sure, it's full of bad jokes but it's still the only one that actually feels like a real movie instead of a glorified clip show

The only recent parody movie I could actually tolerate.

I'm so glad there's finally a video on this movie

Something that i love about superhero movie. Is that instead of the rest of the spoof movids who are just compilation or parodies abd jokes. Here we have an actual story with Jokes.

Too bad Drake Bell couldn't date someone ahead of his time 😞

Finally, somebody who sees what an underrated gem this movie

This is hands down the best of Spoof Movie genre of 2000's. Those that doesn't use "Movie" on it's title usually trash. Stuff that other than "Scary Movie" franchise were also quite bad. Then come Superhero Movie. And holy damn I never expected to find a video talking about it on 2021. This is amazing! The jokes are really fun and in a way relevant to the story, unlike many jokes from other spoof movie at the time. I'm really glad the video included my favorite joke of the movie: When the uncle shoot a nail gun to the friend's hand. I still laughed when I see that scene again. Leslie Nielsen was a treasure.

Never thought I'd be watching an analysis on the superhero movie. Thank you

Better than Love and Thunder...

This one, Meet the Spartans, and Zohan fucked up my comedic humour as I grow up

i feel like im about to see a bunch of meme templates from this movie from now on

We will never get another Leslie Nielsen. That guy was a one-off. A unique talent.

I'm sorry but put some respect on Scary Movie 1 and 2 and the Wayans Brothers who wrote and got the franchise stolen from them.

Drake Bell was cleared of all charges you’re good now bro. Turns out he was falsely accused

You make the best videos!

Ive never watched a movie review that made me want to actually watch the movie more than this one. Theres nothing more i love than passion and appreciation for things. And as a superhero fan myself, im surprised i never seen this! Great video!

Tried making a sequel to this before lol Lets get this hashtag trending xD

Fun fact: as of the time of this comment, you can literally watch the entirety of Superhero Movie on RU-vid for free

Thank you so much for giving this underrated film some appreciation

All good points. What also makes it great is the fact that it followed the Naked Gun and Airplane formula of spoof movies: always do the funny bits as serious as possible