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The Specials

Play trailer Poster for The Specials R Released Sep 18, 2000 1h 28m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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In a crowded and competitive market, wannabe superheroes (Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Thomas Haden Church) pride themselves on being the seventh-best unit in the world.
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Clever, funny, and exciting.

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Stephen Holden New York Times Rated: 2.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Very funny, Well worth a look Rated: 3/5 Sep 5, 2008 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 29, 2005 Full Review Sean Axmaker St@tic Multimedia It's such a low key parody that the undercurrent of deadpan nuttiness and sheer invention just sneaks up on you. Jul 5, 2005 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Surprisingly amusing super-hero satire. Combine this flick with "Mystery Men" and you'd have a classic. Rated: 3.5/5 Apr 2, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Brad P Imbued with the anything goes gorilla filmmaking spirit of Troma and a deep love for comic books, writer James Gunn garnered a fair amount of attention for this script in the late nineties and deservedly so. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Drier and more absurd than Mystery Men, this is a true classic of superhero parody. Everyone in the cast delivers a top notch performance and the superhero world they live in, implied by their offhand comments, is sublimely faithful to the genre. A very human film about flawed but likable characters. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Funny in places - dull in others. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Low-budget film about a low-budget superhero team. Some good ideas and a great cast, but sadly just sort of peters out. It didn't need any sort of special effects, but it did need to have some sort of resolution. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I loved the movie. It wasn't suppose to be epic or a blockbuster, but what it did succeed at was being incredibly funny in a complete deadpan comedy way. I laughed through the entire movie at some of the outlandish situations or straight-faced comic deliveries. In my opinion it's like if Mystery Men was made by a the team that made the BBC show Black Books... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Hit-or-miss satire of the superhero genre. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In a crowded and competitive market, wannabe superheroes (Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Thomas Haden Church) pride themselves on being the seventh-best unit in the world.
Director
Craig Mazin
Producer
Mark A. Altman, Dan Bates, Rick Mischel
Screenwriter
James Gunn
Distributor
Regent Entertainment [us]
Production Co
Mindfire Entertainment, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 18, 2000, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 22, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.0K
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Dolby