Supersonic Man: 2 out of 10: Supersonic Man is a low budget Spanish rip-off of Richard Donner's 1978 Superman. Horrible special effects even for the time and budget and an often aimless plot that gets more confusing as time goes on.
One thought I had throughout the entire film is that I owe an apology to PumaMan. I mean Pumaman is a masterpiece compared to this junk. It had an attractive female lead, a plot you could at least follow and Donald Pleasance.
Supersonic Man has Cameron Mitchell, and well that is about it.
The costume designer is clearly an escaped mental patient, and the musical score sounds like someone beating John Williams with a 1982 Casio keyboard.
Two different actors inexplicably play the main character. Jose Luis Ayestaran plays the titular role as the flying, sparkling Supersonic, and Antonio Cantafora, sporting a mustache, as the non-flying non-sparkle Supersonic. This Bruce Banner /Hulk switcheroo makes little sense as the only real difference between characters is one has a mustache, and the other is dressed for pride week.
Highlights of the film include a bulldozer made of balsa wood, cars that explode when going down a slight incline, Supersonic getting kidnapped constantly while in non-sparkly mustache mode.
Oh, and one last thing to turn into Supersonic man our hero has to say "May the great force of the galaxy be with me" Uh-huh.
I am so sorry Pumaman I didn't realize how good we had it.
Rifftrax Version: 7 out of 10: Some good jokes but much as Supersonic Man doesn't rise to the level of Pumaman I am afraid that Rifftrax's riffs don't rise to the level of MST3K's treatment of Pumaman. The boys never seem to get a good rhythm with all the silliness on screen.
One thought I had throughout the entire film is that I owe an apology to PumaMan. I mean Pumaman is a masterpiece compared to this junk. It had an attractive female lead, a plot you could at least follow and Donald Pleasance.
Supersonic Man has Cameron Mitchell, and well that is about it.
The costume designer is clearly an escaped mental patient, and the musical score sounds like someone beating John Williams with a 1982 Casio keyboard.
Two different actors inexplicably play the main character. Jose Luis Ayestaran plays the titular role as the flying, sparkling Supersonic, and Antonio Cantafora, sporting a mustache, as the non-flying non-sparkle Supersonic. This Bruce Banner /Hulk switcheroo makes little sense as the only real difference between characters is one has a mustache, and the other is dressed for pride week.
Highlights of the film include a bulldozer made of balsa wood, cars that explode when going down a slight incline, Supersonic getting kidnapped constantly while in non-sparkly mustache mode.
Oh, and one last thing to turn into Supersonic man our hero has to say "May the great force of the galaxy be with me" Uh-huh.
I am so sorry Pumaman I didn't realize how good we had it.
Rifftrax Version: 7 out of 10: Some good jokes but much as Supersonic Man doesn't rise to the level of Pumaman I am afraid that Rifftrax's riffs don't rise to the level of MST3K's treatment of Pumaman. The boys never seem to get a good rhythm with all the silliness on screen.