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Rating:  -
Anyway when I first heard of this movies I had such high hopes for it... but it reallty took a trip down the toliet. For the first 45 minutes or so it was hilarious, the "accidental" running over Logue, even when he incinuated that Archie was "doin'" the old lady. I was excited about the cast it seemed really cool. But right after the old lady got stabbed it just took a turn for the worse. I'm a comic book fan myself and I don't even buy this. Okay I can buy that Logue would hire a man to steal the comics, I can buy that the old woman got stabbed by accident, I can even buy that no one wanted to call the police for her, but anything beyond that was on the wrong track. I was very disappointed to where it came to in the end. It felt like I was watching two different movies at the same time. I don't know... was this supposed to be dark humor or serious? PICK ONE! The dark humor quickly turned from something funny to something serious, then to something funny and light hearted again. There were a few things I liked about it that DJ was figuring out that there was a life outside of comic books and to get a life, and even how the rivals were going about getting the priceless comic books. I went from liking the movie to surprised then pissed off then indifferent. Not a good reaction. This is only for the hard core comic book fans that want no clear storyline, just mindless insanity and reference to comic books.
Rating:  -
Well I just rented Comic Book Villians. When I was looking at the cover it looked promising. I like Donal Logue in Grounded For Life, n he was funny in Blade. But I was hoping this would be kind of like Mallrats. Mallrats is probably my favorite comedy, well most all of Kevin Smiths comedies(Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) are my favorites, except Dogma, im not really into the religious thing. But anyway back to CBV. The movie is actually pretty good, with a few funny parts. And i do mean a few, prolly the only part i really laughed at was when Donal Logue(Raymond Mcgillicuddy) is talking about his money problems and sum1 says but you have loyal customers, n Raymond replies, well ya so does Mcdonalds, but they just brought in a few billion more than i did ok. Anyways Raymond and Normal are rival comic book store owners, and are trying to get there hands on the collection of a recently dead old man. Who had been collecting for 45 years. The mans mother refuses to sell them, and that leads the to men to try and steal the comics. It turns from slightly funny to a very weird everyone goes nuts n gets guns tone, witch has a man killed because he didn't know what comic Wonder Woman was first introduced in. Over all its a good comic book-fan movie, but I am a comic book collector, and i was hopeing for more inside comic book humour, that only really happens at the beginning of this film...
Rating: -
I'm glad this was only a rental. Comic Book Villains bit. And in a major way. I couldn't even muster enough interest to finish it. What's exciting about watching two desperate geeks try to wheedle an old woman out of an expensive comic book collection? (The only thing worse, was WATCHING this happen), (sigh).
While I was prepared to find a few laughs and inside jokes in "Comic Book Villains" (I AM a nerd after all), instead, the movie didn't even produce a chuckle. I'd save this film for only hard core geeks, who want to see their fellows in all their laughable humiliation-filled glory on DVD.
Otherwise, give this one a pass.
Rating:  -
OK, lets get it out in the open first! I'm 45 years old and I still collect comics, there I said it! Heck, I sold some and it was the down payment of my first home, and I'm talking a $235,000 house, not too shabby!
Anyway back to this DVD AAAARRRGGGGGG!!!! That's how I feel about it.
The movie was ok with that skinny guy my daughters like for some reason, yeah he's been in some funny movies I have seen but this was not one of them. There were few good parts and even fewer laughs, but that was not the worst!
THE WORST was watching comics burning and water dripping on them and floating around in a lake or pond of something!!
OH THE HORROR!!!
My wife did get a big kick out of me gasping every time a comic was damaged though.
I was waiting at the end of the movie for the disclaimer that stated that no comics were harmed during the filming of this movie.
I had nightmares about my collection being destroyed all night long. Bad movie! Bad bad movie!
But, it did remind me of some great times hanging around with Steve Geppi.
If you like, read, or collect comics do not see this movie!
Rating: -
Written and Directed by James Dale Robinson, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS wastes a potentially good cast which includes DJ Qualls, Michael Rappaport, Natasha Lyonne, Donal Logue and Cary Elwes in this WAR OF THE ROSES style battle of rival comic book geeks/ store owners (Rappaport and Logue) and the war they wage to buy the valuable collection of a fan who committed suicide. The only problem is the man's elderly mother refuses to sell them. So in the tried and true tradition of almost all "black comedies" this inevitably leads to murder; but it takes its sweet time getting there.
To demonstrate how pathetic these guys are, someone is klled over not knowing which issue of which comic Wonder Woman made her debut in. ... if it's not Lynda Carter then I don't care. And how could a drip like Rappaport's character end up married to a babe like Lyonne? Ahh Hollywood: factory of the impossible dream!
Given that this review is briefer than my usual ramblings, I obviously coudn't find much to like about this; and there aren't really any standout scenes or snippets of awful/amusing dialogue et al to help expand on my opinions. However, COMIC BOOK VILLAINS is one of those movies that MAY find an audience due to all the features based on comic book characters that are currently in the pipeline. Lucky break, I say.
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