The Specials
The Specials
R | 22 September 2000 (USA)
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America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Incannerax

What a waste of my time!!!

RyothChatty

ridiculous rating

Pacionsbo

Absolutely Fantastic

Wayne Hansen (ouimetholmes)

If you have watched "Superhero Movie" and "The Specials" side by side, "Superhero Movie" would look like a blockbuster movie. Did I like this yes, why would I admit this but give it such a low rating? Because I respect James Gunn and for the fact that the movie also introduces in her most earliest of roles; one of my more favorite actresses, Melissa Joan Heart. James Gunn gave us a purposely bad movie to show us how not to do a superhero movie, such as not getting Rob Lowe, but it might as well of been Kevin Smith directing the movie. It was funny it is and was meant to be. At the same time it slaps writers in the time period in the face. Had it been a little more serious than it was we could have probably had the superhero craze at least 5 years earlier and may of had a better script for such movies like "Daredevil", the first "X- Men" and "Superman Returns" just to list a few. But the movies' existence may have stopped some writers in writing these better scripts for fear of "This is what the masses will expect." We may never know but its just my theory. Any way if you want a semi funny farce superhero movie then this is the movie for you if you want serious funny then watch "Superhero Movie".

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mitchlb452

I really liked the dialog. It was a pretty funny movie. I originally watched it because I'm a fan of Melissa Joan Hart - but her brief appearance in the movie as sunlight grrrl was in the preview listed on the default special's page on IMDb, so if that's your only reason for watching it, don't bother. I really ended up liking it despite her short screen-time, because of the witty lines and sometimes riddikulous costumes. The whole movie is about what superheros do during their off time - so there aren't really any fights that aren't flashbacks... Like when lazer boy pulled a giant worm out a guy's @$$... But I digress... The point is, if your into superhero movies and are wanting to get a good hearty laugh about them - don't watch that horrible, crappy, pathetically written "Superhero Movie"... Instead, spend the time watching the specials. It will surprise you.

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Webslinger48

Wow, what an embarrassment this is. I don't care if the movie was shot over 18 days for barely $1 million, watching this movie is about as pleasant as licking scrotum sweat off a cadaver. This script should never have been greenlit in the first place, writer James Gunn should have approached Dark Horse or some other indie comic publisher and done a black-and-white graphic novel. It could have been halfway decent in that format and it is a lot easier to sell the superhero stuff in comics than it is in a film without money for special effects.My feeling is you can't make a superhero movie for a mil, I don't care how you're doing it. Never for an instant does anybody believe any of the guys in this movie have any powers. I think it would've made a huge difference if they had shown one or two shots of members of the Specials using their powers early on to establish their cred as heroes, but they don't and it's impossible for the cast to simulate superpowers, no matter how good they are as actors.The annoying thing about this is that you give $1 million bucks and 18 days to a number of directors, they could turn out something pretty special. Kevin Smith made Clerks for $20K for crissakes, and even considering inflation that would've been maybe $60K in 2000, when this was made.Instead, director Craig Mazin and writer Gunn have given us another bottom-of-the-barrel superhero movie, as if we needed another one of those.It just goes to show how bass ackwards Hollywood can be--if these guys worked in any other business and this was the work they produced, they would be abruptly fired and unable to ever work again in that industry. But the movie business doesn't seem to care whether their products are any good, hence Mazin is directing the upcoming "Superhero!" and Gunn is writing other gems like Scooby Doo 2. And there are still people out there that wonder why movies suck.

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galt_57

I was rather shocked to see the high rating on this film. If you enjoy watching pathetic and essentially out-of-touch Kozmo-Kramer-like people wallowing around in well-deserved self-doubt and doing essentially nothing except behaving like disgruntled, talentless, unemployed Hollywood rejects -- then be sure to watch this film. The problem is the film drags and drags and it's impossible to care about these morons (Ok, maybe a few exceptions). The concept might have worked if only the special effects budget had be raised from essentially zero to something non-zero -- and if so many of the characters were not portrayed as jokers who want to pretend they have talents they clearly do not possess. The spontaneous on-stage dance scene near the end of the film was the only thing that is memorable -- one guy can actually impress you.

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