Super - Shut Up, Crime!
| Movie | |
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| German title | Super - Shut Up, Crime! |
| Original title | great |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | James Gunn |
| script | James Gunn |
| production |
Miranda Bailey Ted Hope |
| music | Tyler Bates |
| camera | Steve Gainer |
| cut | Cara Silverman |
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Super - Shut Up, Crime! is an American action - comedy from 2010. The independent film by James Gunn shows with a lot of black humor the supposed superhero story of a cook and a comic shop assistant.
action
Frank D'Arbo is an outsider whose life is marked by disappointments, humiliations, shame and a lack of self-confidence. He had only had two perfect moments so far: the marriage to the beautiful Sarah and when he helped a police officer to pursue a thief. He painted these two moments in a childlike way and hung them on his wall. Sarah tends to make fun of the pictures and generally seems to have little interest in her husband. Instead, she leaves him for the charismatic strip club owner Jacques. Since he is also in the drug business, he has an easy time with the former drug addict .
Frank tries to get it back, but fails and falls into depression . He has visions of a Christian television superhero called The Holy Avenger (originally The Holy Avenger ) and of God. After being touched by the hand of God in one of these visions, Frank considers himself chosen. So he begins to develop a superhero identity, in which he himself , the blood-red flash (in the original The Crimson Bolt calls it). After several unsuccessful attempts, crime fighting, Frank notices that it lacks a weapon. So he takes the help of the comic book seller Libby and researches comics of heroes who do not have superpowers. Inspired by these, he takes a pipe wrench to hand to fight thieves, drug dealers and pedophiles . He doesn't stop at people who are jostling in line. So he quickly comes into conflict with the law. In the fight against crime, it doesn't take long for Frank to search for his wife and try to save her. Unfortunately, Jacques' men have better weapons. Frank can barely escape them and wounded.
He then asks Libby for protection and help. She is immediately fascinated by the superhero idea and literally begs to be allowed to go on the hunt for criminals as his assistant ( sidekick ). Reluctantly, Frank agrees and takes her to fight the evil. But during an incident, Libby, who is now called Blitzie (originally Boltie ), freaks out and almost kills a person. Frank is so shocked by Libby's transformation that he decides to kick her off the team. He is about to take her home when he is discovered and pursued by Jacques' men while refueling. Just before he can be shot, Libby races up with the car and smashes one of the men's legs, while Frank steals the gun from the other man and shoots him.
Both now decide to better equip themselves and develop weapons that are better than a pipe wrench and also work against Jacques' men. You complete a shooting training, buy different utensils and produce not only bombs but also functional protective vests. Libby falls in love with Frank and approaches him. However, since marriage is sacred to him, even with the unfaithful Sarah, he refuses to accept her. Libby then becomes more drastic and rapes him. Frank vomits and decides to start freeing Sarah immediately.
Frank and Libby sneak into Jacques' property during a drug deal between Jacques and another drug lord. After killing some men by killing them with knives and bombs, they are noticed and shot at by the guards. Frank's gun vest saves him, but Libby's head is half shot off. Frank takes explosives and blows up some of the guards. Angry, he grabs their weapons and shoots his way into the house. Once inside, there is a fist fight between Jacques' right hand and Frank. Frank wins this after beating his opponent's head in the fireplace several times. After everyone except Jacques, Frank and Sarah have been killed, Jacques says that Frank could have Sarah and throws her at him. Frank is therefore distracted and is shot by Jacques. But he knows how to defend himself and stabs him.
After he rescues Sarah, she stays with him for a few months. However, she then leaves him for good. She got her drug addiction under control, graduated and went to college. She met a nice man with whom she has four children. Every now and then she sends pictures of her children that she has painted to Uncle Frank . At the end of the film, Frank watches his perfect moments on the wall with a rabbit. But instead of the two individual pictures, Frank's wall is now full of pictures of his perfect moments. The film closes with a look at Frank, who has a tear rolling down his cheek.
criticism
Super received mixed reviews from film critics. The film was received somewhat more positively by the general public. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted 47% of 112 film reviews who gave the film a positive rating, while 56% of 18,600 users rated the film positively, and 32,676 users at IMDb even received a rating of 6.8 / 10.
Stephen Holden of the New York Times said that the film a lot with Kick-Ass have in common (The plot of "Super" has a lot in common with "Kick-Ass," In Which the title character, a high school dweeb and his sidekick, Hit-Girl, wreak gory havoc) and Wilson play his character Frank as the avenger of monstrous grandiosity . However, it is disturbing how Ellen Page transforms from a helpful geek into a crazy dragon with a manic thirst for blood. Frank and Libby are the latest film reincarnation of the archetypal lovers from Natural Born Killers . (Even more disturbing is Ms. Page's transformation from helpful eager beaver to demented vixen whose perky enthusiasm escalates into manical bloodlust. Together Frank and Libby become the newest screen incarnation of those archetypal cinematic lovebirds known as natural-born killers) .
Michael Rechtsshaffen said on hollywoodreporter.com that Gunn is all about satirical killing, in a "no prisoners" tone and in a kind of ultra violent RoboCop style. (Filmmaker Gunn […] really goes in for the satirical kill here, with a take-no-prisoners tone - and a generous amount of exaggerated "RoboCob-style" ultra-violence - that deserves to realize its cult calling.)
Ryan McNally of examiner.com said the talented cast in the film looked rather lost. Although Ellen Page had the opportunity to make her Juno character more evil and Kevin Bacon got a Tarantino scene in which he was allowed to prove himself, none of this would last in the memory. (The talented cast is largely lost in the proceedings. Page gets a chance to take her Juno persona and stretch into darker territory, but with less memorable results. Bacon runs with Gunn's Tarantino-esque dialogue in a fabulous early scene in which he raves about Frank's cooking, but as the movie progresses his screen time dwindles.)
In a preview of the film, Beyondhollywood.com also judged that the film was like kick-ass, only without the big budget. Since Super but deliberately 'next' ( wrong ) is, but this will appeal to the right audience well. (James Gunn's "Super" is like Matthew Vaughn's "Kick Ass", minus the big budget and desperate need to be too cool for school. Gunn's "Super" is just so utterly wrong that if you even have the slightest bit of "wrongness" in you, you should be lapping this film up. It's also why the movie isn't going to get much airplay, since it's bound to be too disturbing for your average moviegoer. But in a good way. Or, er, wrong way. )
"Weird independent comedy, which is reminiscent of the movie" Kick-Ass ", but with all the humor strikes a lot more evil tones and is quite drastic in some effects."
Similarities Between Super and Kick-Ass
After seeing the movie on a comic convention in London had seen and heard about the allegations that Super Kick-Ass imitate, was Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar announced that he and Gunn already during the simultaneous production of both films in E -Mail contact each other and were surprised that they were producing a similar film almost at the same time. In Kick-Ass , a pubescent comic fan who has no superpowers tries to become a superhero.
publication
After the film celebrated its world premiere on September 10, 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival and it was shown at some film festivals, the official US cinema release was on April 1, 2011, but it was only shown in very few theaters. With a budget of 2.5 million US dollars, 327,000 US dollars have been raised so far (as of September 2012). Super had its first official theatrical release outside the US in Iceland on June 10, 2011. The film was released on August 1, 2011 in the UK and on August 9, 2011 in the US on DVD and Blu-ray. The film was released in Germany on January 27, 2012 under the title "Super - Shut Up, Crime!" On DVD and Blu-ray.
Web links
- Super - Shut Up, Crime! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Release certificate for Super - Shut Up, Crime! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, October 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 673 V).
- ↑ Great on rottentomatoes.com , accessed September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Great on imdb.com , accessed September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Stephen Holden : You Do not Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) on nytimes.com of 31 March 2011 ( English ), accessed on 22 April 2011th
- ↑ Michael Rechtsshaffen: Super: Film Review on hollywoodreporter.com from September 12, 2010 (English), accessed on April 22, 2011.
- ↑ Ryan McNally: 'Super' movie review: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page fight some crime, superhero-style on examiner.com, April 20, 2011, accessed April 22, 2011.
- ↑ Nix: Ellen Page as Boltie in James Gunn's Super is Just So, So Wrong ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on beyondhollywood from March 23, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2011.
- ↑ Ben Mortimer: Exclusive: Mark Millar on Upcoming Projects on superherohype.com from April 14, 2011 (English), accessed on April 22, 2011.
- ↑ Great on boxofficemojo.com , accessed September 16, 2012.
