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Six young people (Samuel Vasquez, Leland Mapp, Gregg Golding, Carly
Jean, Nathan Moore, Liza Matthias) suffer traumatic experiences that
creates a (physical) tumor in the collective unconscious - but to rectify
that, the father of one of the youngsters, Evie (Carly Jean), gives them
superpowers (and weird costumes) to find and destroy the tumor. I guess I
should mention here that Evie's dad is an alien that somehow looks like a
lamp. Now our heroes might have superpowers, but they have no idea how to
find a tumor in the collective unconscious (and seriously, would you?), so
they are easy prey for Evie's stepdad (Mark Edwards), who promises to
market them, then though destroys the lamp that's Evie's real dad,
embezzles their money and takes off. With Evie's dad gone, the group,
by now known as "Struggled Reagans", starts to show signs of
straining, especially when one member, Maya (Liza Moore), goes rogue and
helps give the tumor an actual supervillain body ... but dies in the
process. It should be noticed here that it was Maya who traumatized Evie
by raping her in public with a cucumber. Another groupmember, Billy
(Samuel Vasquez), grows more and more fascinated with the B.T.K.-killer,
who murdered his parents ages ago, so much so that he eventually becomes a
serialkiller himself ... until he gets fame-hungry enough to fall for a
psychopathic blogger (Aleksey Calvin), who wants to kill him in order to
become famous himself. Eventually, the tumor grows to giant size - but
what would a film like this be without a giant robot? Now this
is one film unlike any other: Basically, it can be read as a spoof of the Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers, and much more so the countless Japanese
superhero/giant robot TV series that series was based on - only the humour
is surreal and/or absurdist of nature, makes references to cosplay porn in
several instances, is rude and crude (and intentionally so), at times more
reminiscent of Andy Warhol-comedies from the 1960's than anything else,
and several times the audience gets the feeling none of what happens on
screen makes any sense at all - and that's a good thing, too, the whole
movie is triplike and otherworldly rather than just being another parody
movie, featuring the same jokes, different genre. Sure, the whole thing
might not make much sense (but seriously, do superheroes as such make lots
of sense), but it has to be taken in as an experience rather than a
narrative feature ... and now that might sound awfully pretentious, which
the movie is not. It's really something that might work as the perfect
party movie, simply because of its many "what the fuck"-moments
and a sort of weirdness that goes well with beer and/or slightly illegal
drugs. Recommended!
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