Superhero Movie is a joke

Though marginally better than recent skits on Hollywood staples, this scattergun comedy still has only one in a dozen jokes that are passably funny.

Written and directed by Craig Mazin, it stars Drake Bell as a high school nerd who is transformed into a strongman by a radioactive insect bite when visiting a big corporation specialising in cloning animals. He pines for Sara Paxton but spends most of his time trying to avoid the boss of the firm who has hooked himself up to a machine which makes him into a superman. Leslie Nielsen, now in his eighties and a bit doddery, Pamela Anderson et al do parody turns. But where’s the quality control?