This February 25 arrives in our movie theaters ‘Super… who?’a French comedy Philippe Lacheau that shamelessly pranks superhero movies with sabers and winks towards the great Marvel and DC franchises.
Lacheau produces, directs and stars in this parody that topped the French box office upon its release. Completing the main cast of the French film are Jean-Hugues Anglade, Élodie Fontan, Alice Dufour, Georges Corraface, Julien Arruti and Tarek Boudali.
French superheroes
Our protagonist is Cedric, who tries to follow his dream of becoming an actor without much luck. However, his big break comes on the rebound when he lands the lead role in a superhero movie.
The thing is shot and finally Cedric will be able to win over the rest of his friends and his father, even work with his favorite actor. As everything could not be so easy, one day an emergency arises and Cedric leaves the shoot without taking off his suit. Badman and has a traffic accident. The crash leaves him with rampant amnesia and when he wakes up he is convinced that he is a superhero and the plot of the movie he was recording is totally real.
TO ‘Super… who?’ It’s a bit hard for him to start, since he takes his time (and a lot) to lay down the foundations of the plot and introduce us to all the players. Because although the main story is quite simple, we end up with a larger cast than it seemed at one point and with several plots that end up culminating together with a seam that is spun little by little.
Yes indeed, once the main conflict takes off, everything goes downhill and without brakes. We told you above that this is a parody of the comic adaptation genre, which rescues the best of movies like ‘Scary Movie’ or ‘Superhero Movie’ to bring out the colors in current superhero movies.
This It does not mean that it is necessary to bring the entire Marvel Universe or the DC Universe up to date to follow the movie.since it has enough original content to stand on its own… But it is true that many of the most successful gags are designed by and for fans of the genre and that you will get more out of it ‘Super… who?’ if we are related to certain superheroes and their most recent adaptations to the big screen.
And it is that in the end, ‘Super… who?’ It’s a humorous film with a lot of slapstick, slapstick, and ridiculous situations. that on many occasions they make you laugh (even if it is uncomfortable) simply because of the embarrassment of others caused by their protagonists.
Laughter without pretensions
Because no, this is not a French film with refined and elevated humor, and if you don’t enter the game and accept it as such, you won’t have the good time it can give you, if not some of the slightly wilder points can be hard to digest
Another point in its favor is that it lasts as long as it has to last, and be careful, this isn’t bad, because it doesn’t take three hours of footage to tell you what it wants. Its plot and what it tries to do is very simple and unpretentious and Lacheau and the rest of the team take advantage of it from start to finish. And yet, ‘Super… who?’ not only does he stay in the physical and easy mood, he also manages to sneak some moments of criticism of the film industry and little criticism of French cinema amidst the lurch of references to the Avengers or Batman.
There are too many parts of the plot that come off very much like flukes that have to happen. Although be careful, in the end there are also a couple of twists that manage to finish spinning satisfactory and surprisingly some details and characters that perhaps did not quite fit.
But precisely part of its charm is this, the simplicity and a string of gags that take advantage of a perfect moment of “overbooking” of superhero movies to laugh at the entire industry in its face with a protagonist who tries to do his best to become into the hero he thinks he is.