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ABCs of Superheroes
Germany 2015
produced by René Wiesner, Oliver Tietgen, Jens Holzheuer, Matti Schindehütte (executive), Patrick Templin (executive), Vijay Varman (executive) for Boesewicht Film
directed by Oliver Tietgen, Jens Holzheuer
starring Bai Ling, Uwe Boll, Lloyd Kaufman, Fettes Brot, Fred Olen Ray, Jörg Buttgereit, Ida Herrndorf, Nicole Herrndorf, Jerry Kwarteng, Aramis Merlin, René Wiesner, Oliver Tietgen, Biggi Bardot, Manni Laudenbach, Norma J. Jackson, Olav Birkoben, Jarryd Alexander Haynes, Nicholas J. Schofield, Saphyra Da Myra, Jens Holzheuer, Melissa Holley, Elmar Podlasly, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Ulrike von Gawlowski, Stefan Woelk, Oliver Zimprich, Kai Imelmann, Nanni van Hamburg, Ilona Bredehöft, Dokter Renz, Yingying Du, Anouze Schuster, Nina Lauterbach, Christian Schade, Mark Plewe, Erik Muhs, Kerem Demirörs, Mathias Sommerer, Tony Tonagel, Benjamin Auch, Anna Kuzovkova, Boris Heimberger, Sean Adams, Hannah Warns, Kerstin Tietz, Sabrina Kück, Marcel Tessa, Ben Rimkeit, Björn Beton, Alina Wellbrock, Matthias Graw, Mario Kobsch, Frank Kobza, Uwe Schueder, Ina Tramp, Martha Warns, Linda Stratmann, Matthias Grelck, Lukas Jerkov, Cathrin Zöller, Katharina Körting, Daniel Sanders, Christian Klüver, Nicolle-Mercedes Ordynowski, Simon Hollmann, Adrian Dittus, Selina Meyer, Daisi Pollard, Robert Hauspurg, Valentin Burda, Mathis Rempe, Björn Stocklöw, Dennis Stöcker, Frauke-Michaela Riedel, Jens Schütte, Judith Schemmel, Jakob Kurz, Christian Wohlrab, Tim Roscher, André Mansberg, Lara Gorlikowski, Christoph Dade, Antonio Fernandez, Marten Loll, Jannika Jira, Emilia Wellbrock, Sally Fosu, Carsten Schaeffer, Kristin Henkel, Barbara Chirivos Valera, Anna-Lena Kremer, Till Fink, Derk Meyer, Benedict Morilla, Zhanna Schröder, Bobby Brackert, Costanza Torrebruno, König Boris, Ann Meyer, Tobias Nikolowitsch, Akadius Gorlikowski, Marcel Girkes, Ramin Tschaitschian, Michael Gebhardt, Alexander Scheiper, Tina Engels, Lucy Zeng, Benjamin Duros, Christian Kind, Denise Dittmer, Marcus Ramcke, Stavros Zavrakis, Karsten Frohwein, Esther Mair, Yvonne Ungruh, Marina Tinz, Alexander Hertel, Jesper Schäffer, Lennart Kilian Fischer, Nina Bruninghoff, Pascal Finkenauer, Hartmut Riske, Jelena Nogli, Andreas Ziehm, Colin Gorlikowski, Thomas Garl, Alexander Bachinger, Pascal Mader, Nadine Kind, Simon Lammers, David Luther, Dietmar Flint, Bartholomäus Seydlitz, Shezad Eikmeier, Frida Rimkeit, Sebastian Buss, Jan Stefan Kähler, Till Mantel, Fabian Cordula, Klara Vandreier, Babalon Salome, Christina Völz, Armin Dahnke, Rönne Schwarzlose, Sven Erhorn, Robert Braun, Tatiana Calasans
written by Oliver Tietgen, Jens Holzheuer, visual effects by Oliver Tietgen, sci-fi costumes designed by Gustav Ljungdahl, comicbook designed by Till Mantel
Jesus Christ, Hitler
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Denying her pre-teen daughter (Ida Herrndorf) the attention she needs,
her mother (Nicole Herrndorf) lets her choose a comic from the shelves at
the local supermarket without even checking it, so on their way home, the
girl reads stories about a nerd who turns into Almighty Ape due to an
experiment gone horribly wron, Jesus (Jerry Kwarteng) returning to earth
as a blaxploitation hero, much to the concern of bible-thumping
"Worried Christian Fathers", Hitler (Tony Tonagel) returning to
life as a robot, the president's (Uwe Boll) daughter (Barbara Chirivos
Valera) who's so much into being kidnapped Stockholm Syndrome isn't even
beginning to describe it, a superheroine called Shitstorm (Sally Fosu) who
... well, does her name much honour, the giant Dirndl Girl (Biggi Bardot)
destroying the city, the ever mentruating Menstru Girl (Norma J. Jackson),
Popular Girl (Kristin Henkel) who's so popular because she's got a really
big penis (?), plenty of topless babes, extreme violence and the like. No
wonder then that the little girl comes off this reading trip with some
pretty strange and dangerous ideas ... ABCs of Superheroes
is ... well, my synopsis doesn't do it real justice, it's even more insane
than that. Now here's what not to look for in this movie: Incredibly
sophisticated humour (though you might get some of this especially on
repeat viewing), million Dollar special effects, awesome fight scenes
(though some of it is suprisingly good), and of course political
correctness. What you do get though is much better than that, a
really fun superhero parody that's reminiscent when superhero movies were
there just to provide some silly fun rather than being building blocks of
"franchises" that need to be "gritty" and
pseudo-profound. Instead it presents you with a fast paced, unpretentious
revue of superhero-tropes that might lack faux-depth but make up with
silliness, crude humour with tongue-in-cheek violence aplenty in the style
of Troma (no
surprise Lloyd Kaufman's in this then), Fred Olen Ray (ditto) and Full
Moon, and an almost mad amount of topless nudity worked into the
proceedings. The result is pretty much hilarious, a definite party movie
that ought to be enjoyed with lots of beer, plenty of mates, and maybe one
can come up with a drinking game to go with it even!!!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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