The Specials: Cut from the same cloth as the very similar “Mystery Men”, this tries to play it more straight with the idea of C-list superheroes in contemporary America. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, we meet The Specials, a group of wannabe first stringers like the Weevil and Dr. Smart, and are exposed to their interpersonal trials and travails as they are one big dysfunctional family. An okay cast here, with Jamie Kennedy as Amok, Rob Lowe as the aforementioned Weevil, and Thomas Haden Church as the Strobe. Judy Greer and Jordan Ladd are also here. We even get Jenna (The Office) Fischer in a small cameo. For a light-hearted look, there are very few laughs to go around here and most of the characters are painted in very, very broad strokes. Director Craig Mazin went on to give us the ridiculously bad “Superhero Movie” the better part of a decade later. Fine, but nothing remarkable. Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”
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