Italian Spiderman [2007]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

We try to avoid comedies. Mainly this is because if a movie falls under the blanket of "comedy" and "bad movie", that generally means that the movie simply fails as a comedy. Sure it might have some of the bad film making and script moments of fun bad movies but it is more often painful. We also try to avoid movies that are intentional parodies of bad movies because they are usually too self aware to be funny in the way that bad movies are. Here we have found an exception.

This is an Australian production that is a parody of bad foreign remakes of popular films and it's actually hilarious. It's Adam West's "Batman" meets James Bond starring Nacho Libre and set in Italy in the 60s. Nothing about it resembles "Spiderman" aside from the fact that the main character who has a weaponized moustache and mostly just goes around punching people has a spider on his shirt. Explaining the plot is ultimately useless because it's mostly nonesense but I can tell you some reasons to watch it. There's a surf contest with attack penguins. There's a guy who looks like young Weird Al who points at stuff in shock. There's all the coolness of the 60s mod vibe but everyone's a flailing idiot. Any, hey, t's less than 40 minutes of your life wasted if you don't have fun. But you probably will.

Quotes:
"Respect women!"
"Thank you, Italian Spiderman!"
"Shut your mouth, pussycat, and make me a macchiato, pronto!"

"I summon penguins!"

Spoon Rating: 9.

Adam's Grandma's Review: "That was better!"