A low self-esteemed and constantly bullied teenager gets bitten by a radioactive dragonfly and develops superpowers.
There are two reasons why I watched it… again. Leslie Nielsen and the Aunt Lucille farting sequence! Other than that, what can I say? It is an hour and fifteen minutes of that kind of humour that was washed up even twelve years ago. It is the first time I tried to analyse what makes it funny – if written and executed properly. That kind of humour has several components. It requires:
- Some pre-existing knowledge of the films parodied,
- Exaggerated and utterly disjointed scenes,
- The heroes’ reactions to the superfluous, anecdotal stimuli causing the disjointed scenes, but their immediate forgetfulness straight after until something else happens.
I was not planning to make a review, and if I’m being honest, I haven’t really. I just wanted to put in my two cents about the particular comedy sub-genre. I wish there was something else to say, really. Even though it’s silly, to say the least, a couple of sequences will make you laugh – such as the Aunt Lucille farting sequence! And, hey, we do need some laughs. Especially these days.
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