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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1983 DVD Release : 25 March, 2003 |
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| In an era when so many films are either sequels, pre-sold or derivative, "The Return of Captain Invincible" stands as a one-of-a-kind. It is quite possible the strangest film ever made, but at least it acknowledges that strangeness, even glories in it. The gist of the picture is that a wartime superhero, Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin), falls on hard times when his country suddenly decides he is subversive (a plot device not unlike that in Pixar's "The Incredibles," twenty years later). Driven under by HUAC (in fact, stock footage of Joe McCarthy appears in the movie), the superhero becomes an alcoholic living in Australia. But when the evil Mr. Midnight (Christopher Lee), a once-and-future Nazi, rears his ugly head with a plan to rid New York City of minorities, the President (1950's Hollywood veteran Michael Pate) seeks out his former hero to save the world.
What really makes this film unique, though, is that it is not simply a superhero spoof but a musical, with numbers that range from country to jazz to Vegas to Broadway to rock to a very funny spoof of the "Can You Read My Mind?" flying love scene from 1978's "Superman." There are many other conscious parodies as well, including riffs on "Dr. Strangelove" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (Captain Invincible and the heroine find themselves thrown into a "snake pit" of living vaccuum cleaners). Arkin, who started his career as a folksinger, has a very pleasing voice and the amazing ability to adapt it to the style of the song (in one he imitates Bing Crosby, in another Sinatra). The real showstopper, though, is Christopher Lee's big number, a "Rocky Horror"-inspired rock song (by the same composers) in which Midnight tries to force Captain Invincible back off the wagon by tempting him with a well stocked bar. This is the film's best known scene, and it must be said that the sight of Lee singing and dancing with a bevy of scantily clad henchgirls has to be seen to be believed. "The Return of Captain Invincible" has its share of dud gags, but overall, its infectuous goofiness and a few pretty good songs carry the day. |
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