GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

NeuhVader Comic Book Villains tells the story of Archie (DJ Qualls) who works at his best friends comic book store. His best friend is Raymond McGillcuddy (Donal Logue) who's enemy's are rival comic book store owner's Norman and Judy Link(Micheal Rapaport & Natasha Lyonne). When both parties here of a recently deceased comic book fan's large collection of priceless comic book's both parties declare all out war. While the two parties are plotting against each other Archie Befriends the dead comic collector's Mum Mrs Cresswell (Eileen Brennan). When Mrs Cresswell refuses to budge about not selling the comics Raymond hires his old school bully Carter (Cary Elwes) to steal the comics. If you like low budget movies you'll love this. If you hate anything to do with comic book's you will surely hate this I will give an 8 for different to Hollywood dross.

Brian Bagnall The first hour of this movie is absolutely priceless and will have you giddy. All the performances without exception are perfect. Donal Logue really stands out as McGillicudy, the pipe smoking comic store owner. Just watching him on screen will have you laughing. Pretty much everyone in the film is down on their luck and looking for some success to make their lives a little better. When they finally see the chance for greatness, they all go too far.The only false note is between the teenaged orphan and the old woman. Their friendship seems to come together a little too quickly, but really if they spent more time on this relationship it would not be an improvement since it's the most boring part of the story. It's a lose-lose situation. Later, when something bad happens to her the tears are a little too much considering they really hardly know each other.I also thought the film got perhaps a little too dark. At first some of the confrontations between the competing parties were hysterical, such as when McGillicudy smashes one of his rivals garden gnomes and then runs away. But pretty soon we have a body count and it just seems like it doesn't fit with the rest of the movie. Still, it's a pretty good ending. Well worth seeing if you've ever visited a comic book shop.

HeathenClerk This movie made the growing list of "worst movies I've ever wasted my life seeing." Not only is the writing complete sh*t, but the acting is so ridiculously bad in 99.99% of the movie and, of course, there's the fact that it barely makes any sense, logical or otherwise. As a friend of mine stated while watching, what it really needed was for the director to have decided either "hey this is funny, lets make it more comedic" or "hey this is serious, lets make it more dramatic," because he definitely was not able to pull of a "dark comedy." If you're reading this and you haven't seen this mediocre sad bastard-fest, then consider yourself lucky, and treat me as a god for saving you from seeing it. It isn't even like bad/good or bad/funny like some movies are (Jason X comes to mind in the latter case). If you have seen this and you liked it, I never want to meet you so don't email me; and if you saw this and you liked it and you want to try and make movies for a living, please save us the future hassle and switch to applying for a manager's position at a Blockbuster Video.Erik

toplocker the problem(s) with this film is one of desire. our main character doesn't have any. the story is told through one young boy and all he does really is hang out at the comic book shop wanting to be in with the owner. but the film becomes a morality tale about what not to do, and ceases to be a story, and our hero does little more than just watch....very boring. and the one interesting villain is introduced and then forgotten about. cardinal screenwriting rules. the ending is pseudo-tarantino, but then maybe somebody should have told the film's writer/director that even tarantino can't do tarantino anymore.