Super, with Rainn Wilson, reviewed: It's not what you expect.

Few movies have won me over as suddenly, and so late in the game, as Super (IFC Midnight), a comedy about a loser who aspires to transform himself into a superhero. This quirky feature directed by James Gunn (who also wrote its screenplay) starts in predictable territory, leading characters around like marionettes and trading in the blandest flavors of twee irony. Then, all at once, something shifts, and the movie crescendos to a tone of innovative,�dark, and daring filmmaking. The most distinctive moments of Super are not charming and comic, as its premise might suggest, but strange and raw?an odd encounter over scrambled eggs, a casual act of horrific violence, and what I believe to be the only instance of bad couch sex in superhero raiment ever conjured on the big screen. As a movie, Super is unfocused and bafflingly inconsistent. It is also the most genuinely surprising new release I've seen in a long time.

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