Hugh Hefner, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill and Kevin Smith journey into the world of comic book fandom! Documentary filmmaker Donald Swan heads to the world's largest comic book convention where he encounters a culture of craziness that he's totally unprepared for.
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okay honestly it's not good but Mark Hamill is my Dad so I'll let it slide.
(also features a special cameo appearance from JJ Abrams so I mean, who am I to complain??)
It was a rather bland movie but watchable. It is funny how this movie practically made Mark Hamill right in that Hollywood was never going to make more money out of nerd culture by not respecting the comic book. Now here we are in 2018 and things have changed.
The thing I like about it is even though this movie has quite a lot of big name cameos I think the true gem casting of this movie comes who is playing the actual main roles in this movie. I love how Mark basically casted the who's who of voice actors from the last 30 years. it took me a couple scenes for each person to finally recognize them mainly from their voice.
Its not a bad movie, quite a lot of charm in it, a love letter to nerd/geek culture.
Almost certainly, Comic Book: The Movie was inspired by the twin successes of Trekkies and GalaxyQuest, which both went into general release within a few months of each other, the first poking fun at Star Trek fandom, the second a documentary charting the eccentricities of fannish behaviour. With Comic Book: The Movie, director/star Mark Hamill has attempted to do the same for comic book fandom.
While Trekkies was a documentary, Hamill has gone one step beyond and made Comic Book into a mockumentary about fandom. The results fall somewhere between Trekkies and one of Christopher Guest’s dryly deadpan mockumentaries – Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind. Comic Book: The Movie was shot around the real-life 2002 San…
Yeah a mockumentary that focuses more on plot than jokes doesn't work. But it was nice to see Tom Kenny. He's cool :)
A pleasant enough satirization of soulless cinematic superhero appropriation that makes terrific use of its cast without adding up to much. - ►
Kevin Smith says a slur but otherwise its actually not bad. you just have to know/know of people like this to understand the accuracy. and plus Mark Hamill is cool and I love Bruce Campbell, jess harnell, tom Kenny, Stan lee, and Kevin Smith when he's not saying slurs. its not the best mockumentary out there but for the topic its joking about, its pretty good
I really wanted to like this because I love comics and I love mockumentaries but most of the humor didn't land and it just went on way too long... Mark Hamill's genuineness was consistently entertaining however.
Mark Hamill's directorial debut and even today his only directed film. Is it bad? Yes and no, but mostly yes.
The premise is not so stupid. A comic book lover is hired as an advisor when a film company has to make an adaptation of his beloved comic book: Commander Courage, but panic arises when he realizes that the film company intends to change pretty much everything that the comic book stands for.
There is potential for good comedy, but this is where the problems begin. There is no budget. The entire film feels filmed for $ 100 and the script feels written on a napkin. Much of the film's content feels improvised and many scenes fall flat. It's never particularly funny.
One can ask oneself whether the film is a love tribute to the nerd culture or if it is a big middle finger. Either way, Comic Book: The Movie is a waste of potential.
