{"id":62363,"date":"2011-08-06T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=62363"},"modified":"2011-08-06T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:24:49","slug":"superheroes-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/08\/06\/superheroes-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Superheroes Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Superheroes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Michael Barnett and Theodore James<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an odd and easygoing charm to <em>Superheroes<\/em>, a colorful new documentary which enjoys its world broadcast premiere on HBO on Monday, August 8. While in the narrative realm James Gunn&#8217;s &#8220;Super&#8221;, Peter Stebbings&#8217; &#8220;Defendor&#8221; and Matthew Vaughn&#8217;s ultra-stylized <em>Kick-Ass<\/em>, among others, have examined the worlds and worldviews\u00a0of those who take on a superhero guise without any particular special powers, &#8220;Superheroes&#8221; is a nonfiction look at those who don self-made spandex costumes along with alter egos, patrolling city streets at night to stop evildoers and protect the innocent. An engaging if ultimately intellectually lightweight sub-cultural safari, the movie offers up something for and ultimately connects about equally with clucking gawkers and\u00a0admiring comic book fanboys alike.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directed by Michael Barnett and Theodore James, &#8220;Superheroes&#8221; shines a light on a surprisingly robust collection of real-world masked crime-fighters, spanning from New York to San Diego to Orlando. Mr. Xtreme posts homemade flyers with a police sketch of a local serial groper and also recruits for his organization, the Xtreme Justice League, of which he is the only member. Other young superheroes, like Zimmer, Z, T.S.A.F.\u00a0(an acronym for The\u00a0Silenced and Forgotten)\u00a0and Lucid, have moved in together and joined forces under the banner of the New York Initiative, where they patrol the streets of Brooklyn and sometimes take part in more legally questionable &#8220;bait&#8221; operations, designed to elicit thefts or hate-crime assaults. Dark Guardian, meanwhile,\u00a0confronts drug peddlers at his local park, with the assistance of a cameraman named, well, Cameraman. Then there&#8217;s Master Legend, the founding member of Team Justice, the only superhero group with recognized non-profit status, and a beer-swilling, chatty guy who declares that his self-made bombs &#8220;ain&#8217;t no funny business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Befitting their stature as proactive, pay-it-forward types, almost all of these men (and, yes, women too)\u00a0are unerringly polite, and of course community-oriented. They trend young, of course, and frequently work low-wage or odd jobs that allow them nights and weekends to themselves. But for the most part they&#8217;re not &#8212; despite the almost uniformly outlandish costumes &#8212; completely off-the-grid fringe-dwellers; amongst their ranks are a martial arts instructor, a teacher, a security guard, an EMT trainee and a\u00a0stay-at-home dad. These folks also typically share troubled backgrounds &#8212;\u00a0previous problems with addiction or drug abuse, childhood trauma and victimization, and\/or past criminal behavior.\u00a0Clearly their taking\u00a0of these most unusual\u00a0stands for &#8220;the voiceless and powerless&#8221; is motivated\u00a0by a deep-seated desire to set right what was once wrong in their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>While it includes interviews with behavioral psychologists and law enforcement professionals, <em>Superheroes<\/em> doesn&#8217;t specifically push its subjects too far on questions of their motivations and tactics, instead preferring to take\u00a0a passive, interrogative\u00a0tack, and let viewers connect dots and draw their own conclusions. While a push for more\u00a0forceful and sustained\u00a0reflection may have made for a stronger and\/or potentially more cathartic experience, such is not the mission of Barnett and James&#8217; film. In this regard, the movie suffers a bit. With the possible exception of a couple of extremely young\u00a0crusaders and the much older Master Legend, who comes off as something of a nutter, the individuals in <em>Superheroes<\/em> are all rather striking in their level-headedness, and ability to articulate their feelings. They realize the sort of attention their rather radical behavior attracts, and have to embrace it as part of their &#8220;mission,&#8221; however broadly defined. Pressing these subjects on alternative avenues for these energies, creating a dialogue about their visions for constructive and lasting social change, would have been difficult but also much more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a\u00a0movie like this would have been perhaps cruel and insufferable if it didn&#8217;t treat its subjects&#8217; goals and aims\u00a0sincerely, which <em>Superheroes<\/em> most assuredly does. None of the people showcased here seem to be merely aggrandizing attention-seekers; they each legitimately want to help people, and regard current institutions and bureaucracies as\u00a0either\u00a0failing or lacking somehow in their\u00a0ability to adequately solve\u00a0people&#8217;s problems and needs. Barnett and James wish to merely chronicle this subculture, and then let viewers of their curio ruminate as much or less little as they wish about the varying degrees of mental illness and\/or bold, iconoclastic bravery they have just witnessed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/superheros.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/superheros.jpg\" alt=\"Superheros\" title=\"Superheros\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/superheros.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/superheros-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Superheroes Directors: Michael Barnett and Theodore James There&#8217;s an odd and easygoing charm to Superheroes, a colorful new documentary which enjoys its world broadcast premiere on HBO on Monday, August 8. 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