Donning a mask and beating up bad guys isn’t just for $200 million tentpoles anymore, argues Super, the new dark comedy from director James Gunn. Like The Green Hornet with one-twentieth of the budget, Super stars a comedian ill-suited for crime-fighting spandex (Rainn Wilson) who realizes that to fulfill his potential, he should invent a superheroic identity and take on the city’s seedy underbelly. Luckily, he’s got a sidekick that might be more adept for this sort of thing — in this case, a bracingly gonzo Ellen Page, who torpedoes her disaffected slacker shtick with giddy shrieks and a willingness to get weird. Super comes out on April Fool’s Day, which seems appropriate: The trailer sells all the laugh lines and Wilson’s main comedic catchphrase (“Shut up, crime!â€), but in the movie, the joke is on the people who have to put on masks to reveal who they really are. [Yahoo Movies]
