The sixth or seventh best superhero team in the world pursue their rightful place in the harshly competitive world of toy tie-ins and fighting evil.The sixth or seventh best superhero team in the world pursue their rightful place in the harshly competitive world of toy tie-ins and fighting evil.The sixth or seventh best superhero team in the world pursue their rightful place in the harshly competitive world of toy tie-ins and fighting evil.
- Power Chick
- (as Kelly Coffield)
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- TriviaJames Gunn wrote the screenplay in just two weeks. and the screenplay is what got him every bit of work hes had in Hollywood since. Paget Brewster adds that the film has gotten her no work at all. Gunn specifies that it was the screenplay that led to more work not the actual film.
- Quotes
College Girl: Hey, are you Minuteman? Can we have your autograph?
Minute Man: My-noot Man! Do I look like a soldier from the Revolutionary War? I don't think so! Am I wearing a three-cornered hat? No! I turn small. Think!
College Girl: Fuck you.
[her car pulls away from the curb]
College Girl: That costume makes you look gay!
- Crazy creditsDuring the end credits we see an "In Memory: 1970-1993" reference and picture of Mr. Stretch, an original member of the Specials that we are told died of mouth cancer in one of interview segments.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Half in the Bag: The Suicide Squad (2021)
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Written by Matt Sims and Dave Cooley
Performed by Citizen King
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
"The Specials" is a comedy about superheroes that, thanks to a tiny budget, has no special effects and no scenes where the heroes demonstrate their powers (until the very end). For the filmmakers to have gotten away with this deficiency, they would have needed smart writing and fascinating characters. They had neither. The plot involves a possible dissolution of the super-team, but because everyone is contemptuous of one another, and because no one is especially likable anyway, we're not exactly heartbroken at the idea. The writer, James Gunn (who also plays Minute Man), made no attempt to create believable human beings, even though 82 minutes is too long to spend with shallow parodies of comic book drawings. The gags are paramount, and the gags aren't even funny.
The movie earns a certain perverse admiration from us for studiously avoiding the inevitable; and then it ruins even that with a brief, godawful special effects scene at the end that isn't even enjoyably cheesy; it's just bad. Kudos to the makeup department for their striking work on the blue-skinned, purple-lipped, red-eyed Amok (Jamie Kennedy). Otherwise, the film is worthless.
- J. Spurlin
- Nov 10, 2008
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $13,276
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,131
- Sep 24, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $13,276