Superhero Movie is a
2008 comedy film written and directed by
Craig Mazin and produced by
David Zucker and
Robert K. Weiss.
Superhero Movie starred
Drake Bell,
Sara Paxton,
Christopher McDonald, and
Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled
Superhero!.
Superhero Movie is a
spoof of the
superhero film genre, mainly the first
Spider-Man, as well as other modern-day
Marvel Comics film adaptations. The film follows in the footsteps of the
Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to, some of
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as
Airplane! and
The Naked Gun.
Production began on September 17, 2007 in New York. It was released on March 28, 2008 in the United States, and the UK release was June 6, 2008, and received 9 million dollars on its opening weekend and was number three in the
box office. The film was rated PG-13 by the
MPAA for
crude and
sexual content,
comic violence,
drug references, and
language.