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Superlópez
Super Lopez
Spain 2018
produced by
Álvaro Augustin, Ghislain Barrois, Francisco Ramos, Paloma Molina (executive) for La Gran Superproducción, Mediaset, Mogambo, Movistar+, Telecinco, Zeta Cinema
directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera
starring Dani Rovira, Alexandra Jiménez, Julián López, Maribel Verdú, Pedro Casablanc, Gracia Olayo, Ferran Rañé, Gonzalo de Castro, Mireia Portas, David Fernández, Jordi Colom, Xavi Colom, Teresa Rodríguez, Alejandro Serrano, Toni Garrido, León Martínez, Sara Manzano, Biel Montoro, Franz Fernández, Hamsca Elbakali, William Arunategui, Santos Loza, Josep Maria Riera, Borja Echevarría, Xavi Martí, Amaya Mínguez, Ángel Galán, Biel Perelló, Yassmine Othman, Quim Castella, César Riola, Guillem Motos, Marc Rodríguez, Jason Tigreros, Oscar Dorta, Sergi Rubira, Óscar Pérez, Josep Maria Alejandre, Joaquín Gómez, Carlos Zabala, Óscar González, Mariona Schilt, Éric García, Pep García Pascual, José Pedro García Balada, Sergio Rodríguez, Josep Sala, Loli Martín, Alberto Martos, Francisco Pecellín, Nao Albet, Eduard Benito, Berto Romero, Pedro Piqueras, Nil Gibert, Marc Duxans
screenplay by Borja Cobeaga, Diego San José, based on the comicbook by Jan, music by Fernando Velázquez, special effects by El Ranchito
Superlópez
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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The planet Chitón is ruled by evil dictator Skorba (Ferran
Rañé), so a scientist (Gonzalo de Castro) and his wife (Mireia Portas) create
the ultimate weapon against him, a baby boy who's to grow up to be a
superhero. But before the boy can grow up any, his parents are found out
by Skorba's henchmen, and they quickly put the boy into a rocketship aimed
at the highest developed region of earth, the USA - but the rocketship is
misguided and thus crashlands in Spain where it's found by a car mechanic
(Pedro Casablanc) and his wife (Gracia Olayo), who take on the baby as
their own. They soon find out there's something different about their
adopted son, whom they call Juan, like he has superpowers and all that
stuff, and seeing these powers make him an outcast, they persuade him to
keep them under wraps and aim for mediocricy - because Spain isn't a place
for superheroes. Eventually, Juan (Dani Rovira) has grown to adulthood,
works at a dead end job, and only uses his superpowers when nobody's
looking - like getting to the office on time despite the fact he has
overslept. Eventually, he seriously falls in love with Luisa (Alexandra
Jiménez), and she with him, and much to the dismay of his sort-of-boss
Jaime (Julián López), who has also set his sights on her, they go out.
And after their date, Juan saves a speeding subway from a certain crash
using his superpowers - but gets away just before he can be recognized.
But the news is enough to attract the attention of Ágata (Maribel
Verdú), who's actually the daughter of Skorba from Chitón who has since
built up an empire building and selling vacuum cleaners as a smoke screen
to track down Juan - oh and take over the world with technology that has
made its way into every household via her vacuum cleaners. Ágata manages
to finally get hold of Juan, and she offers him a partnership to take over
earth, but he refuses - upon which Ágata employs Jaime to give her dirt
on Juan and eventually creates a clone of Luisa to win his trust ... which
doesn't work. Juan returns to his foster parents from earth who finally
tell him who he really is, and mother also tailors him a superhero suit,
but in the meantime, Ágata takes the real Luisa hostage - and Jaime, who
has ceased to be of use - in order to lure Juan into a trap and present
him to her father on a siver platter. But the plan fails as Juan's
superpowers are really emarkable. Skorba's disappointed, but Ágata just
kills him and takes over his throne - and builds herself a robot (with a
built-in giant vacuum cleaner) to fight and defeat Juan - but only just
exploring many of his superpowers, he hasn't run out of tricks yet, either
... It's very obvious, Superlópez the comicbook
was created as a parody of Superman
back in 1973, so it's only consequential that this movie does take several
jabs at Superman
movie adaptations (and other superhero movies) - especially the first act
is a pretty obvious take on The Man of Steel, only Superlópez succeeds
in bringing across why to hide one's superpowers where Man of Steel
so miserably failed, and in half the time and on a fraction of the budget.
The outcome is in fact a pretty entertaining movie, if more on the party
movie level: There's plenty of sight gags, slapstick, obvious jokes and
parodistic moments to keep one entertained, but at the same time the
thing's a bit lacking of depth, subtlety and refinery to make it really
great of memorable. But good for a laugh it is for sure!
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