SUPERHERO MOVIE (1 1/2 STARS)

DIRECTOR: Craig Mazin
STARS: Drake Bell, Leslie Neilson, Christopher McDonald
DESCRIPTION: It was a summer day. Me and my friend were bored, so we decided to see a movie. Whilst looking for good movies to see playing in the theater, we ran across SUPERHERO MOVIE, the sixth or so movie in this clan of bombers. Well, it being almost seven, and us not wanting to see LEATHERHEADS, the only other movie playing, we decided to take a chance on the SUPERHERO MOVIE, knowing full well we were diving headlong into the cheesiest movie of our lives. Luckily it proved to be a little* better than expected.
The story's basically based around the plot of Spider-man (With a few exceptions thrown in, as he loses his parents the same way Bruce Wayne did in BATMAN BEGINS), a geeky teenager (Drake Bell: Drake and Josh, The Amanda Show) who, while in a science lab on a field trip, gets not only bitten by a radioactive Dragonfly, but also humped to death by every single animal in the place, after accidentally spraying himself with a strong pharemone. From then on, the story gets twisted up, going inside and out of every superhero movie created (Within the last couple of years), as the Peter-Parker-type teenager makes his slow, painful, and embarrassing-to-watch transition into a full-fledged superhero, from an argument with the Human Torch on who gets to perch on a rooftops gargoyle statue, to a university for super-trainees (Mostly all X-Men characters).
Suddenly, the rich, and dying father of his best friend (Christopher McDonald: Flubber, Happy Gilmore) accidentally mutates himself while trying to cure his sickness, into a villain who steals the life from people to use for his own, and the klutzy, untalented Dragonfly must now save the world from this evildoer, even if it means chasing him through a large superhero convention!
It's really the writers of NAKED GUN, and the part of Leslie Neilson (AIRPLANE, Spy Hard) as Drake's uncle that give the film it's little sparks of humor. Though, I'd say, the trick to enjoying this throwaway flick is to not go into it expecting and wanting a good movie, but instead, going into it looking for nothing more than a cheap, immature laugh now and then.