Welcome to the first of my mini Halloween series. No expectations here please, there's dark comedy, gore, and just plain terror depending on what I choose to watch. First up is Super (2011), a dark comedy. It's another film from this recent spate of alt films, Juno, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Easy A, Whip It, to name but a few. It's refreshing to have characters who have just that, a personality. Frank (RainnWilson) is a spineless, miserable everyday man. The two defining points of his life so far is marrying his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler), and pointing a police officer in the direction of a robber. When his former-junkie wife leaves him for her boss Frank tries in vain to get her back. After an epiphany, Frank is touched by the finger of God, and decides to turn himself into a masked crusader and fight crime.
Along the way he picks up Libby (Ellen Page), an excitable comic book store clerk who figures out Frank has become the Crimson Bolt. After wearing him down, she becomes Bolty, his kid sidekick, and together they work through the thong of bad guys, drug dealers, thieves, child molesterers of the city before turning their attention to Jacques and his cronies.
This film has a few shocks, and quite a lot more gore than I had expected. Bolty's untimely demise is certainly one of them, along with some unexpected twists and turns in the plot. I was thoroughly gripped from start to finish and the film has definitely shot into my most-loved list. Great if you want a bit of gore this Halloween but are looking for a plot.
This is what Kick-Ass would look like in real life. 9/10.
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