It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Tried watching this. Couldn't raise a smile let alone a laugh. Some of the characters are really annoying and others are just charactures. Don't waste your time.

I will preface this by saying that Superstore is not a bad show, it's actually a decent modern sitcom. At the same time one cannot help but to compare Superstore to other popular modern sitcoms. There are obvious parallels to the Office found in this show, even sharing some writers/producers. The biggest difference is that Superstore just isn't consistently funny. It's obvious that Amy and Jonah are similar to Pam and Jim; both are lovable characters, but Amy is a in a relationship while Jonah has feelings for her. Dina is Dwight, the strong willed co worker that is just a bid different that other people. Whilst the comparisons are obvious, I actually like all three of these characters. Being similar to a show like The Office is okay if the characters are charming and the jokes are funny. This leads to Glenn, the worst part of this show. Glenn is not funny, he's Michael Scott if Michael Scott was not funny. It's not the actor's fault, I just don't think he's given any material to work with. He's the trope of the religious man that is just a bit too innocent for the world. I'm not saying that tropes are bad, they're bad when they're not funny. The issue of Glenn also leads into Superstore's biggest flaw, wasted potential. This is a sitcom in the style of The Office, Parks and Rec, Arrested Development and many others, set in a fictional Walmart. There is so much to work with, and instead they just regurgitated the Jim and Pam romance and focus on the relationships between the workers as opposed to the relationship with their coworkers along with their surroundings. These sorts of relationships work in shows like Parks and Rec because they're in an office, they only have each other to talk to. In a Superstore interactions with customers and the crap that retail workers go through should have been a central point to the show. In the end, I'll still watch it and hope it gets better. Superstore is not bad, it could just be so much better.

Like all "sit-coms" and any TV series, it often misses the mark entirely. A recent example was "Cheyenne's Wedding". Some of the jokes were downright cruel and tasteless. Also, it should have been held at the store for maximum humor. No classic show is immune from clunkers. Remember all the bad episodes from all of "Star Trek" TV? Grinding out a show every week can't be easy. The premise for the show is loosely-based on the decade-old Jessica Simpson movie "Employee of the Month". Why did it take so long to become a series? It is a natural. Anyone who has had the "pleasure" of having a retail "grunt" job knows all about it, including the odd, strange, and obnoxious co-workers and customers that populate the retail universe. Most of my supervisors were as "clueless" as the management running "Cloud 9". I am not sure where they film it now, but it was originally inside a Costco at one time. Look for "Kirkland" products on the shelves.

You will not notice it at first but that's what this show really is. And it's annoying as hell to notice it. First of you think oh wow this is show has an original story and then you see it all transpire and it's just ''sigh''. I wanna use a word for more than lazy but I won't because the writers of this show is just that. Very, very lazy. I won't argue that it's really funny but I still don't get how they can get away with just ripping off that story? If it isn't the same writers. Anyway the story is exactly the same. The goofy boss that gets fired, the control freak that wants to be the office, ops meant store boss/guard. Then we have the weird one, the cute boy who falls in love with a older girl who is married and her marriage is failing and they fight openly and bla bla. You know the rest. And when you see it all transpire you will just get sick of how you know it all is gonna end. I would say 7/10 at the moment because it's a really funny show and the story for each episode is kinda original but the main story not so much. I give it maybe a third season and then you have your complete ripoff of The Office.