Comic Book Villains (2002)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

"Comic Book Villains" requires a familiarity for the themes of comic books, rather than the comics themselves. There are three types of comic book 'geeks' in the movie: the hardcore collector, represented by Logue's character; the famous book reader, who knows everything about popular comics, but nothing about less-known ones; and the casual reader, represented by DJ Quall's character of Archie. His role is where the problems begin. Every moment that Logue, Rappaport, or Cary Elwes is on screen, the movie shines of brilliant observation and attention to dialogue. However, Archie was written as the ideal reader, a guy who understands that comics are entertainment, not reality. He epitomizes everything i dislike about this movie. Every scene he is in is either hinting at a message, or explaining a message. The theme Archie brings to the story is furthered by ridiculously pathetic acts of violence and obsession, which ruin the film's last 4th. If one were to watch the ending of the movie and then the beginning, he would not have any idea they belonged to the same picture. Take Natasha Lyonne's character for instance. At the opening of the movie, she is a bright woman who runs a comic book store very casually. A slow change and character ark would have been brilliant for her character. However, after one stupid plot-hole-filled scene, she becomes a vengeful warrior obsessed with getting the mcguffin of the piece, the dead man's comics.This film deserves more attention than it gets; it's more enjoyable than a lot of the comedies out there even if one has no interest in the comic book aspect shown in the film. That can be looked at as a frame for the characters and an incidental device to move the plot along. The actors bring the characters to life in a believable fashion. The real surprise for me was Cary Elwes, who I generally think of in stick-up-his-wazoo, pretty-boy roles like in "Twister" or his turn on "The X-Files". Here, he manages to play a nasty two-bit, low-life punk with some edge, and I almost didn't recognize him. It's a low-budget, independent film, but a cast of names we recognize from other films give it some prestige. Robinson also makes a statement on the comic industry as it has gotten into through the 90's and into the new millennium. It is held together quite well by the narration of one of the main characters, and in spite of its title manages to hit more than one emotional note throughout. It deserves a much wider audience because of the fine character acting of the entire cast.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

I know Cary has been in bad movies, but I never thought he would sink as low as this. All this movie is some half baked director thinking he can take the styles of Tarantino and the Coen Brothers and come up with a happy medium.... well it sucked. No one waste your time on this horrible and worthless thing. All we seem to have nowadays are people trying to take the styles of other directors and find new ways to tell the same stories.No on in their right might with any directing talent would even try to take a wretched screenplay like this and make it into a horrid movie like it was. Movies have to have purpose and directors need to start coming up with their own styles rather than do poor rip offs of others. I can't remember the last time I saw such an awful film.

This is a solid professionally made "B" movie. The biggest names are Eileen Brennan and Cary Elwes, but they are secondary, albeit pivotal characters. It's the story of rival comic book dealers trying to score the biggest ever haul in valuable, vintage comics, and how they deteriorate from nice people into thieves and murderers. It's also the story of a boy becoming a man and a man finding his maturity, even if it is a dark and vicious maturity. It could be called a black comedy if there was anything funny about it. As I said before, the actors are mostly lower rung, but solid professionals. The characterizations are layered and all too human. The writing is intelligent. What more can you ask from cheap entertainment?

This movie made the growing list of "worst movies I've ever wasted my life seeing." Not only is the writing complete sh*t, but the acting is so ridiculously bad in 99.99% of the movie and, of course, there's the fact that it barely makes any sense, logical or otherwise. As a friend of mine stated while watching, what it really needed was for the director to have decided either "hey this is funny, lets make it more comedic" or "hey this is serious, lets make it more dramatic," because he definitely was not able to pull of a "dark comedy." If you're reading this and you haven't seen this mediocre sad bastard-fest, then consider yourself lucky, and treat me as a god for saving you from seeing it. It isn't even like bad/good or bad/funny like some movies are (Jason X comes to mind in the latter case). If you have seen this and you liked it, I never want to meet you so don't email me; and if you saw this and you liked it and you want to try and make movies for a living, please save us the future hassle and switch to applying for a manager's position at a Blockbuster Video.Erik