| Superhero Movie | |
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| Directed by | Craig Mazin |
| Written by | Craig Mazin |
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| Cinematography | Thomas E. Ackerman |
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| Music by | James L. Venable |
Production companies | Dimension Films Craig Mazin Company |
| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 86 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $71.2 million |
Superhero Movie is a 2008 American superhero parody film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner, Jeffrey Tambor, Robert Joy, Regina Hall, Pamela Anderson, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled Superhero! as a nod to one of the Zuckers's previous films, Airplane! (1980), in which Nielsen also starred.
A spoof of the superhero film genre, primarily Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), as well as other lampooned cameos of mid-2000s Marvel film adaptations from 20th Century Fox such as Fantastic 4 (2005) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), the film follows in the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies (2000–present), with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun (1988–1994).
Production began on September 17, 2007, in Los Angeles. It was released on March 28, 2008, in the United States to generally negative reviews from critics.
- ^ "Superhero Movie (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. April 2, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2016.