Review of SuperBob

SuperBob (2015)
3/10
SuperBob
26 August 2021
SuperBob is a mockumentary of a day in the life of a postman in Peckham who was transformed into a superhero when struck by a meteorite.

Bob Kenner (Brett Goldstein) now works for the Ministry of Defence as a superhero and finds saving lives is a bureaucratic nightmare.

The Americans are jealous that Bob is British and wants him labelled as a weapon of mass destruction.

Bob though feels like a loser. He is a loner looking for love despite being able to fly and save lives.

He fancies the local librarian June (Laura Haddock) but ends up getting together with his acerbic Columbian maid Doris (Natalia Tena.) She is in Britain to earn enough money to build an orphanage back in Columbia.

This is a low budget film with too much obvious attempt to have quirky British humour. It fails to soar because it does not have much of a plot, it is also not really funny.

Catherine Tate is irritating as Bob's boss in the Ministry of Defence. Brett Goldstein who also co-wrote the script comes across as too flat in the lead role. He just seemed wrong in the lead role. I have seen him in a sitcom called Uncle where he was lot better as the rival boyfriend.
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