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Superspoof Or Superdud?

It’s funny, even though Meet the Spartans was the #1 movie last weekend, there was a fierce backlash against the whole notion of spoof movies, as if this one film was about to bring down the great American empire because people actually paid money to go see it. (Although, I prefer the theory that teenage boys bought tickets for the PG-13 Spartans only to sneak in to go see Rambo.)

Meanwhile (he says in a comic-book flavored transition), there’s another spoof film on the immediate horizon, March’s Superhero Movie. So, after people were screaming bloody murder all day Monday about how awful Spartans sucked, AICN puts up this breathless, adoring “review” of Superhero Movie, as if it’s going to rebuild the empire Spartans brought down. Come on, could the timing be any more suspect?

Now there’s a trailer for the film that looks to be just like a parody of the Spider-Man movies. Judge for yourself. Does this look like an empire saver? (Ironically, I saw this trailer on Empire Online.)

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