YMMV / Superhero Movie

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Stephen Hawking, for being such a scene-stealer for every second he's in the movie. His uniquely deadpan, computerized way of communicating provides a hilarious juxtaposition to the jokes he makes about sex, drugs, and many other topics.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Still popular with Brazilians, with constant references and memes in the Brazilian internet up to today.
• Ham and Cheese: Broad comedy aside, the hamminess of Lou Landers a.k.a. The Hourglass makes him feel like Stan Lee could have written him in The Silver Age of Comic Books.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The "this is healthy cough blood," line is now a lot less funny when a decade later, an actual Spider-Man work would feature a regular Spidey supporting character, Aunt May coughing up blood as an indicator of a terminal disease. And she doesn't make it, much like how the Aunt May parody in this film dies.
  • In this movie, Hourglass, the Green Goblin parody, kills Aunt Lucile, the Aunt May parody. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Green Goblin kills Aunt May.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Drake Bell, who plays a parody of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, would go on to voice Spidey for real in the Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) TV series, which is practically a parody of Spider-Man. This might seem less hilarious after Marvel paid him to dub over Spidey's guest spots in the more-serious The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
  • The Norman Osborn parody has a terminal illness. Flash-forward to 2014...
  • Some of the gags end up being very similar to gags/subplots used in The Amazing Spider-Man, like both Rick and Peter accidentally rip off a woman's top, both look up their "condition" online, both of them accidentally end up destroying water fountain/wash basins due to a miscalculation of strength among other things.
  • Trey offers that he needs to become a superhero to pick up girls. Hilariously, Over the following years, it ends up being the girls who took the advice...
  • Rick ends up revealing his superhero Secret Identity to his best friend much like what Peter would do (albeit, accidentally) in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • In the Brazilian dub, Hourglass is voiced by Eduardo Borgeth and Jill Johnson by Mariana Torres. They'd make another main villain and blonde Love Interest respectively in The Amazing Spider-Man.
  • This comedic superhero work uses Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" for a comedically erotic scene, and it wouldn't be the last.
• Older Than They Think: Hourglass would actually have been a decent villain in a more serious or dramatic superhero movie. A man with a terminal illness wants to suck the life out of an entire city to gain immortality? Sounds pretty intense. Not surprising this has been used by several Spider-Man villains — most notably, Vulture and Silvermane have both had plots to return their youth at the cost of someone else. Plus, he's similar to X-Men villain Omega Red, in that he has to drain people's lives or else his powers will kill him from the inside.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Tom Cruise can fly scene. The impersonator was seen as completely like him.
• Signature Scene: The "They cut through diamonds!◊" scene is a pretty popular image to share.
  Hourglass: Titanium blades. They cut through diamonds!
  Dragonfly: I'm not wearing any diamonds!
• So Okay, It's Average: The most common compliment that is made of the film is that it's not nearly as stupid as it looks to those tired of Seltzer and Friedberg.
• Squick: Rick's uncle Albert reveals he had sex with his mother, "just like [his] father did!" Considering who the actors are that play Uncle Albert and Rick's deceased mother (Leslie Nielsen and Nicole Sullivan), this can create disturbing images.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: On Rotten Tomatoes, this film currently has the highest rating of the Scary Movie spin-offs. It has often attracted praise from even the series' most strict detractors for its surprisingly well-written story, effective deconstruction of the superhero genre and for having many funny moments.

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