Superbob

Dir: Jon Drever

2015

**

I had real high hopes for Superbob, I really wanted to like like much more than I did. The problem is that Superbob (or Jon Drever) doesn't really know what it wants to be. You can't start a film as a fake documentary (mockumentry) and then forget the format halfway through. When the story was trying to be sweet, it was really sweet, but when when it tried to be funny, it was seriously unfunny. I look forward to the day when British comedies will realise that they don't have to have a person act like a character from The Office in order to be funny. The Office ended in 2003, please get over this and move on. The special effects are pretty good, the overall direction is pretty slick and the satirical content is pretty clever. All get marred by irritatingly rubbish performances (particularly from Catherine Tate). So close but so far away from what could have been achieved. There is one particular scene that is a pure joy and shows that everyone involved is capable of real talent, the problem was that this scene was used far too early (when it should have been saved until the very end) and was overshadowed by tiresome and rather desperate attempts at humour. It's as if Jon Drever and co thought that setting a superhero film in Peckham was funny enough not to embellish more on the scenario.