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Superhero Movie (2008)

★ 5.3 · 1,999 ratings on TMDB

The greatest Superhero movie of all time! (not counting all the others)

Superhero Movie poster★ 5.3

Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.

DirectorCraig Mazin
CastBrent Spiner, Christopher McDonald, Drake Bell, Keith David, Kevin Hart, Leslie Nielsen
GenresAction, Comedy, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Superhero Movie keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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