Confessions of a Superhero

2007
Director: Matthew Ogens
Starring: A lot of people as themselves

Before I go to sleep, I usually like to watch one of two things, either a documentary or anything history/discovery/animal related. This movie is the former. Nothing particularly amazing about Confessions of a Superhero, it's just a good movie to fall asleep to.

All of the characters are "actors" who dress in costumes on sunset blvd or somewhere in Hollywood in hopes of getting paid (tips) to appear in some tourists lame photos. The fact that they labeled themselves as actors at the start was pretty laughable. The documentary focuses primarily on four of them, Superman (Christopher Dennis), Batman (Maxwell Allen), Wonder Woman (Jennifer Wegner), and the Hulk (Joseph McQueen). The first 20 minutes just introduces each of them and shows them "working". It's seems sad and cheesey how they work, begging and telling people that they work on tips before they get to posing.

The movie finally started to get interesting once they dove deeper into each of their lives. Superman, while maybe the biggest fanatic of any one thing I've ever seen, seems like he's just a really warm hearted guy. Sure he comes of as a sheltered nerd but there is an innocence to him. His mom was a movie star that was never there for him so I can see him grabbing hold of something else from his childhood and not letting go. Batman on the other hand is a creeper. He thinks he looks like Clooney, drives a moped and still does karate. The karate part is that bad but he was TERRIBLE at it. He tries to come off as a tough guy and tells stories of his previous days in the mob. I believed them until his wife said its all a show, he just has anger problems. By the end of the movie he is in some kind of therapy (thank God) telling about when he killed someone and looked pretty convincing so I don't know what to believe.

Wonder Woman is just the story of another (no offense) average looking girl who wanted something more in her life so she moved to Hollywood to be an actress. She marries some guy like two weeks after they meet. Apparently they fight alot (the scene of them "fighting" isn't that bad so I am assuming it gets worse)and by the end she has moved out. Who would've known. She is a lot younger then the previous two people and still very much involved with becoming an actress. Her audition was poor but her commercial was solid. My favorite person of the group was the hulk. He used to be a homeless guy, so now his life must seem pretty good. He has a positive attitude the whole time on screen. I think he was the only one I really cared about making it as an actor and by the end he has some small role so we're both happy.

Rating: 3 stars. Movie was meh. Me, being the nerd I am, was expecting some cool superheroes. What I got was a bunch of out of work actors. Started out pretty boring but through developing each of the "actors" held my attention. Would not go out of my way to watch and probably not recommend but I would fall to sleep to.

Best Scene : Last second of the movie. The hulk is in full character at his b movie set. He smiles at the camera. That was a cool dude.

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