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The Specials (2000)

Directed by Craig Mazin

Comedy

Most recently watched by noahphex

Overview

America’s 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members’ extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.

Rated R | Length 82 minutes

Actors

Taryn Manning | Rob Lowe | Jamie Kennedy | Barry Del Sherman | James Gunn | Paget Brewster | Thomas Haden Church | Jordan Ladd | Judy Greer | Matt Champagne | Lauren Cohn | John Doe | Sean Gunn | Jenna Fischer | Jim Zulevic | Mark Gottwald | Mark A. Altman | Samantha Cannon | Jordan Warkol | Melissa Joan Hart | Chase Masterson | Judith Drake | Michael Weatherly | Patricia Gaul | Abdul Salaam El Razzac | Robert Meyer Burnett | Kelly Coffield Park | Lee Kirk | Beau Weaver | Frank Medrano | Mike Schwartz | Chuti Tiu | Tom Dorfmeister | Christopher Shea | Louis Martin Braga III | Johnny Mountain | Scott Torrence | Valerie Long | Brian Gunn

Viewing Notes

Looking up about this film it was shot in 18 days, which is no surprise because it’s short, doesn’t have hardly and action and features very little in the way of changing locations. I found this to be pretty damn hilarious and why not? Look at the cast: hThomas Hayden Church, Rob Lowe, Jaime Kennedy, James Gunn, Sean Gunn, Jordan Ladd, Judy Greer, and Padget Brewster. They’re a bunch of misfit superheroes with mostly terrible superpowers, who are falling apart as a team. I thought the format, which blends between a reality show with interviews of individuals and scenes of them talking around tables or in a living room, work in favour of the film because it limits to just the funny script and delivery instead of depending on big action scenes, which is what it’s NOT about.

Anyways, it’s not Mystery Team, which is similar, but more like it’s ugly cousin you still wanna get with because you think it’s cute and your friends don’t.

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