Comic Book Villains

Rating:
Summary: It had its moments....
Review: Well I just rented Comic Book Villians. When I was looking at the cover it looked promising. I like Donal Logue in Grounded For Life, n he was funny in Blade. But I was hoping this would be kind of like Mallrats. Mallrats is probably my favorite comedy, well most all of Kevin Smiths comedies(Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) are my favorites, except Dogma, im not really into the religious thing. But anyway back to CBV. The movie is actually pretty good, with a few funny parts. And i do mean a few, prolly the only part i really laughed at was when Donal Logue(Raymond Mcgillicuddy) is talking about his money problems and sum1 says but you have loyal customers, n Raymond replies, well ya so does Mcdonalds, but they just brought in a few billion more than i did ok. Anyways Raymond and Normal are rival comic book store owners, and are trying to get there hands on the collection of a recently dead old man. Who had been collecting for 45 years. The mans mother refuses to sell them, and that leads the to men to try and steal the comics. It turns from slightly funny to a very weird everyone goes nuts n gets guns tone, witch has a man killed because he didn't know what comic Wonder Woman was first introduced in. Over all its a good comic book-fan movie, but I am a comic book collector, and i was hopeing for more inside comic book humour, that only really happens at the beginning of this film...

Rating:
Summary: Of interest only to comic book fanatics.
Review: Written and Directed by James Dale Robinson, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS wastes a potentially good cast which includes DJ Qualls, Michael Rappaport, Natasha Lyonne, Donal Logue and Cary Elwes in this WAR OF THE ROSES style battle of rival comic book geeks/ store owners (Rappaport and Logue) and the war they wage to buy the valuable collection of a fan who committed suicide. The only problem is the man's elderly mother refuses to sell them. So in the tried and true tradition of almost all "black comedies" this inevitably leads to murder; but it takes its sweet time getting there.
To demonstrate how pathetic these guys are, someone is klled over not knowing which issue of which comic Wonder Woman made her debut in. ... if it's not Lynda Carter then I don't care. And how could a drip like Rappaport's character end up married to a babe like Lyonne? Ahh Hollywood: factory of the impossible dream!
Given that this review is briefer than my usual ramblings, I obviously coudn't find much to like about this; and there aren't really any standout scenes or snippets of awful/amusing dialogue et al to help expand on my opinions. However, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS is one of those movies that MAY find an audience due to all the features based on comic book characters that are currently in the pipeline. Lucky break, I say.

Rating:
Summary: Of interest only to comic book fanatics.
Review: Written and Directed by James Dale Robinson, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS wastes a potentially good cast which includes DJ Qualls, Michael Rappaport, Natasha Lyonne, Donal Logue and Cary Elwes in this WAR OF THE ROSES style battle of rival comic book geeks/ store owners (Rappaport and Logue) and the war they wage to buy the valuable collection of a fan who committed suicide. The only problem is the man's elderly mother refuses to sell them. So in the tried and true tradition of almost all "black comedies" this inevitably leads to murder; but it takes its sweet time getting there.
To demonstrate how pathetic these guys are, someone is klled over not knowing which issue of which comic Wonder Woman made her debut in. ... if it's not Lynda Carter then I don't care. And how could a drip like Rappaport's character end up married to a babe like Lyonne? Ahh Hollywood: factory of the impossible dream!
Given that this review is briefer than my usual ramblings, I obviously coudn't find much to like about this; and there aren't really any standout scenes or snippets of awful/amusing dialogue et al to help expand on my opinions. However, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS is one of those movies that MAY find an audience due to all the features based on comic book characters that are currently in the pipeline. Lucky break, I say.