The Return of Captain Invincible

[rachelmanija]

This is a peculiar movie of jaw-dropping badness, a superhero musical comedy in which the writer mostly forgot to write in any actual jokes

Comments

[tool_of_satan]

I feel compelled to note that the director has actually managed to make more movies, the latest of which (from last year), The Gertrude Stein Mystery or Some Like It Art, IMDB describes as "Gertrude Stein lived on into the 21st Century, changing history throughout her life in incredible secret missions."

[rachelmanija]

Good God.

[incandescens]

I remember watching this ages ago. I remember enjoying the bits with Christopher Lee in, because, well, as you say, Christopher Lee makes the bits in which he appears good. The rest is a vague blur.

[rushthatspeaks]

The origin of the term 'glacial pacing' ought to be is the Chinese movie The Iceman Cometh, in which the hero and the villain are fighting on a mountainside until they are suddenly swallowed by a glacier. Because that is just how badass their fight was.

[oyceter]

I was just going to say I misread Rachel's line in the post to mean that an actual glacier showed up!

[rachelmanija]

One would not have seemed out of place!

[coyotegoth]

I can't believe Richard O'Brien worked on the songs for that.

[lady_ganesh]

It's always extra sad when a movie manages to waste both Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee.