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Real Heroes

USA 2014
produced by
Donna Mathewson, Keith Hartman, Gio Messale for Waltzing Penguin Productions
directed by Keith Hartman
starring Hunter Smit, Keila Hamilton, Melissa Jobe, Ilona Kulinska, Lars Slind, Grand Landry, Matt Palazzolo, Tyler Booth, Russell Dennis Lewis, Richard Van Slyke, Verona Blue, Guy Klender, Ginger Pullman, Tom Patrick, Brianna Oppenheimer, Stu Hammill, Jen Wenger, Fernanda Espíndola, Ellen Karsten, Sharon Diane King, Kimo Keoke, Elijah Hawk, Michael Karan, Ezra Buzzington (voice)
written by Keith Hartman, comic book illustrations by Tone Rodriguez, Christian Meesey, Jamie Kinosian

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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For a reality show, six second string superheroes are grouped together in a luxurious condo: Big Shot (Hunter Smit), the expert archer, Malibu Action Girl (Keila Hamilton), a rich kid who's into this solely for the swanky outfits, Water Warrior (Lars Slind), a vain guy who can talk to fish (supposedly), Sam (Matt Palazzolo), a psychic whose powers start to annoy everybody before long, Sable (Melissa Jobe), a single parent turned superheroine always strapped for money, and her teenaged daughter Vixen (Ilona Kulinska), who doesn't want to be on that show, is just discovering her lesbian side, and isn't sure what she's annoyed by more, her mum's constant meddling in her affairs, or her mum's constantly forgetting to pick her up from soccer practice. Of course, proceedings in the condo are initially as boring as on any other reality show ... until a shady scientist disappears, calling our team into actions. Unfortunately, our heroes are not cut out for teamwork, so they all fly out into different directions, and of all of them, only Sable seems to be able to pick up a good track - but what's worse, the next day after the blunder, the others aren't interested in following Sable's leads but rather make a team-bonding exercise - which eventually leads to Water Warrior being exposed as being nothing but an actor and being replaced with Blue Arrow, Big Shot's former partner and another archer.

Eventually, the heroes' condo is invaded by villains Necro Nazi (Guy Klender), a Nazi zombie, evil scientist The Skull (Ginger Pullman) and evil wrestler Titania (Verona Blue), who pretty much defeat our heroes and kidnap The Vixen ... and when the good guys manage to catch up with the baddies, they discover they are led by Dr Nightmare (Richard Van Slyke), Sable's ex and the father of her daughter - which is why The Vixen switches allegiances rather quickly. But Dr Nightmare has not yet won, as his underlings overthrow him and make The Skull his successor, and The Skull wants to send nanorobots to all the world leaders to take over their brains. Will the "real heroes" be able to stop her?

 

If you're too serious in your love of reality television and/or comicbook superheroes (which unfortunately waaayyy too many people are these days), you'll probably hate this one ... but everyone else will find at least something to laugh in Real Heroes, a rather hilarious blend of both these genres, diverse as they may be. Now granted, not all the jokes in this movie are great, but the whole thing manages to remain topical throughout and never drifts off into cheap humour, quite some thought was put into telling an actual story to hang the jokes up on, and a love for comicbook superheroes does shine through everything. And even the fact that some of the more special effects heavy sequences are done via comicbook panels add to the charm of this - and actually makes sense in line with the crappy production values of reality television.

So if you can take things with a grain of salt, this one's really fun!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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