Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Craig Mazin
Written by	Craig Mazin
Produced by	Craig Mazin Robert K. Weiss David Zucker
Starring	Drake Bell Sara Paxton Christopher McDonald Kevin Hart Brent Spiner Jeffrey Tambor Robert Joy Regina Hall Pamela Anderson Leslie Nielsen
Cinematography	Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by	Andrew S. Eisen Craig Herring Daniel Schalk
Music by	James L. Venable
Production companies	Dimension Films Craig Mazin Company
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	March 28, 2008 (2008-03-28)
Running time	86 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$35 million
Box office	$71.2 million

Superhero Movie is a 2008 American superhero parody film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled Superhero! as a nod to one of the Zuckers's previous films, Airplane!, in which Nielsen also starred.

A spoof of the superhero film genre, primarily Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, as well as other lampooned cameos of mid-2000s Marvel film adaptations from 20th Century Fox such as Fantastic 4 (2005) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), the film follows in the footsteps of the Scary Movie series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance. It was also inspired by, and contains homages to some of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's earlier spoof films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun.

Production began on September 17, 2007, in Los Angeles. It was released on March 28, 2008, in the United States to generally negative reviews from critics (but more positive than earlier entries such as Date Movie and Meet the Spartans).