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The Specials

Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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"How do you get to be a Special? You go to a special school." The jibes one endures when a part of the "sixth or seventh best superhero team in the world." The Strobe (Thomas Haden Church) has become vain and self-absorbed, his frustrated wife Ms. Indestructible (Paget Brewster) has gone looking for love in the arms of the Weevil (Rob Lowe), and sex-mad, blue-faced punk Amok (Jamie Kennedy) is getting bored with being a good guy and longs for his supervillain days, when he could sneak a cigarette without publicity fallout. The team is like a bored group of kids stuck indoors on a rainy day, and inaction and frustration has led to backbiting, infighting, love affairs, and long-held grudges. The hilariously disastrous unveiling of their action figures (with such absurd accessories as "a giant meat thermometer") is the final straw: the Specials are no more.

On the surface The Specials looks like a sitcom version of Mystery Men with a droller sense of humor ("Remember the time we caught and drained the Blister?"). The sly script drops the misfit bunch into a suburban world where superheroes are just another part of the media and marketing landscape. First-time director Craig Mazin is a little clumsy putting it all together and perhaps too effectively captures the bland, everyday-ness of the setting, but he tweaks familiar clichés with straight-faced absurdity. The underplayed performances and deadpan gags soon catch up to the concept, and by the end it emerges as the funniest, smartest superhero parody in ages. --Sean Axmaker

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3.6 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Thomas Haden Church Movie --- EVER! Jun 10 2003
By Dinkadoo85
Format:DVD
For anybody just becoming a fan of Thomas Haden Church, I'd advise you to see this movie.
This is Thomas at his best (also, it was before his brunette period! - if you don't believe me, see that new episode of "Lucky" called 'The Method' that he was in. He's USUALLY a blonde).
I like almost every character in this movie and there is never a dull moment!
You'll find yourself quoting the scene where they discuss the action figure celebration in the boardroom, which turns into an arguement
about Amok's actions.
The Great Strobe needs his own comic book. Badly. Just as long as Archie Comics and Ken Penders aren't involved.
I have another suggestion to new Thomas Haden Church fans, avoid "Susan's Plan... Dying to Get Rich" and "3000 Miles to Graceland".
Both movies are bad and... I hate that hairdresser chick in SP:DTGR. She's just scary.
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4.0 out of 5 stars going to special school May 13 2003
By "dreadpiratebob"
Format:DVD
something that i didnt see in any of the current reviews is a mention that this is kind of a mock-u-mentary. what does that mean??? well, for one it means that the production values are low, likely because of a lack of budget, but i would argue that the production value complements and plays with the nature of the specials, the 6th or 7th greatest super team.

one guy gave this film a 1, wich i do not agree with at all. from reading the review, it seems to me that this person was looking for an 'eye candy' movie, which, usually superhero movies are predisposed to being, but this film is entirely driven by the characters. the movie would have been fine without the 2 min of effects at the end, and i was suprized to see them, they did in fact look better than the production value of the rest of the film suggested, very likely that is where a good hunk of the films budget went.

it is realy tempting to give this movie more than 4, but i dont think it deserves 5.

i am a fan of Thomas Hadden Church, and though this is not one of his best roles, fans of him, or the other actors will like this movie

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5.0 out of 5 stars SO much better than Mystery Men Feb 6 2002
By L. Bolland
Format:DVD
Don't get me wrong Mystery Men was good... But this movie (the Specials) Is GREAT! I was laughing the whole way through and just enjoying the fun original script and simply Superb cast! Whoever cast this film knew what they were doing because they had some of the funniest and coolest actors around. I can't recommend this dvd enough. It's funny, cool and enjoyable... And if that wasn't enough the dvd has heaps of special features including some great deleted scenes... check it out it really is hillarious!!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars What a piece of Crap
I picked up the specials looking to see some heroics or comedy or drama. What I got was a load of trash. Read more
Published on Mar 4 2002 by "rpsion"
4.0 out of 5 stars A real superhero spoof
A nice little 'cult' film. It is a more deadpan and less goofy version of "Mystery Men", which was funny, but never really lived up to its potential. Read more
Published on Jan 23 2002
4.0 out of 5 stars An uneven, but creative and clever film with heart
The Specials are not in the forefront of superhero teams. They're not in the rear either, they're the heroes who handle the oddball jobs because they're the oddballs. Read more
Published on Jan 7 2002 by Steven Savage
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Superhero Movie Ever
Superheroes that never use their powers are not actually superheroes. Instead, they are pretty much just regular people with regular problems, which makes this movie extremely... Read more
Published on Aug 4 2001 by Tim Barkow
5.0 out of 5 stars The movie Mystery Men should have been!
Not as good as regular superheroes, but definitely better than you! The Specials, comprised of the sixth or seventh greatest superhero team in the world, need to improve their... Read more
Published on July 30 2001 by Douglas Vance
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a really funny movie
The Specials is proof positive that large budgets do nothing but stifle creative freedom. Monty Pythons Holy Grail and Life of Brian were great movies because they didn't have any... Read more
Published on Jun 15 2001 by James B.
5.0 out of 5 stars In Spinal Tap's League, but wish they had a budget
This isn't a film for everyone: if you grew up reading comic books and you like Spinal Tap or the underplayed style of British humor, you'll laugh your tuckus off. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2001 by Tevis Fen-Kortiay
4.0 out of 5 stars The Special's is a direct to video gem!!!!
I'm a big fan of comic books and being a fan usually means that I watch every super hero movie to come out of the woodworks. Read more
Published on Jun 10 2001 by Keith Gleason
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, Freaky Super Hero Stuff
I found this movie by accident at a local rental shop and after I watched it I decided I had to own it. Read more
Published on May 20 2001 by Sean D. Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual superhero movie
I really enjoyed this movie. It is funny and insightful; an unusual take on comic book heroes. This is a character movie with no flashy action sequences - it develops slowly and... Read more
Published on May 7 2001
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