This spoof was made by some of the original Airplace team which is a plus, and the screenplay written and directed by Craig Main and produced by David Zuker (Scary Movie). The recent releases of spoof films have been dire, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans were so poor as to hardly register a grin never mind a chuckle, but never fear, your local Superhero is hear to save the day…….or at least, that is the intention.

There really isn’t much to say on the personnel front, Drake Bell plays the lead ‘hero’ and is a newcomer to film, having been on USA childrens TV for a long while. Sara Paxton plays the romantic interest, whilst Leslie Neilsen does his best to drag his aging body going through the slapstick motions with Marion Ross, who some may remember from ‘Happy Days’.

So to the story, well at least this is coherent, unlike some of the aforementioned efforts, you should think Spiderman with a few twists and you are almost there, here the story pans out in a similar vein except Rick Riker (Bell) is bitten by a Dragonfly and hence turns into a hero of that ilk. His enemy is the Hourglass who has to drain the life-force from others to stay alive, and in order to achieve immortality, has to drain the life from thousands at a single sweep. There are a couple of in-jokes (watch for Tom Cruise/You-Tube spoof) and the skits at the various other super heroes including X-Men and Batman.

There are a few very good laughs, a fart joke that takes it to the nth degree, a lot of double-entendres and facial double takes than you could shake a stick at. The problem is that there is a lot of hit and miss effort, it therefore comes across as half broken rather than a fluid parody of the genre. Whilst it has nothing original to make it stand out from the films it apes, it is at least a little more good humoured than homophobic or outright sexist as per some of its contemporaries.

4.0/10, With such a lot of material falling short of the intended target, it does not really fulfil the potential it had, instead of sticking too closely to the Spiderman story, a little more thought could have given this some much needed impetus, and less immature jokes, more filling than filler comedy. Good for a daft laugh on a dead night!