enemyzero First of all any one who wants to see this because they liked Mystery Men, it is not even close to the same kind of film.Second of all anyone, who didn't like this movie because it wasn't like Mystery Men, you're an idiot and no one wants to hear what you say.The key differences are. Mystery Men was based on actual characters from a comic called "The Flaming Carrot" which is in its own right an amazing piece of work. On the other hand "The Specials" was completely fabricated.Also if you want to see this because you liked "Spiderman" or "X- Men", yet have never read any comics, you probably won't get it.The entire premise of the movie is to show what the members of a team of superheroes do on their day off. It shows all the petty bickering, and the flaws and downfalls of the characters. It tries to say "Superheroes are people too", and it does this beautifully.I loved both Mystery Men and The Specials, but would never try to compare the two. That would be like trying to compare "Sin City" with a movie based on "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" just because they are both graphic novels.If you watch this movie, it definitely helps to be a comic book fan-boy or fan-girl, the jokes are very tongue in cheek, and very well written. Yes there are the standard poop, fart and penis jokes, but keep in mind, it is a comedy and these things make people laugh as well.This is one of very few movies I give a 10 out of 10 too, and while in other cases with other movies I would listen to any intelligent argument put up by anyone with a different few, in this case, if you didn't like this movie you were just to dumb to get it and don't deserve debating with me

moni I only watched this garbage because it was shown on some cheap cable channel Sunday afternoon. It was advertised as "comedy". Boy, how wrong I was when decided to give it a go. It was simply not funny at all, has no plot and is full of mindless dialog full of filthy words in order for Americans to like it. I am stunned how most of the reviewers have regarded this so called picture as a piece of art, when it was simply a piece of something else that you can refer as excrement. When you watch all this mediocrity you often wonder how in God's sake can this be made. It is so weak it made porn movies run for mainstream Oscar. Apart from cinematographic flaws, the acting is just lame. Most of the crew needs to go to acting schools again. Acting is so bad it becomes funny at moments.No, seriously, Hollywood, stop doing turds like this one. It is really ruined your (already filthy) image anyway.Definitely a winner for Bottom 100 of all times. Shame on Rob Lowe for participating here.Avoid at all costs unless your favorite movie is "American Pie".You have been warned.100/10

kevdoggy The type of movie that makes you wonder "how did this get made?" I mean it's got some talented people in it. Good actors. I like Thomas Hayden Church A LOT, and same for Jamie Kennedy. Rob Lowe's a deek, but he's at least famous. I guess they were working for a paycheck, because this script IS TERRIBLE. Not funny. Great idea. The fact that this and Mystery Men failed so miserably with basically the same premise/conflict set up makes me want to write the same movie only MAKE IT FUNNY THIS TIME. It doesn't get a 1 because the performances are really a 7 or 8.

MurrayTodd The premise had some good possibilities. With a good script I think it would have been possible to make a really low-budget movie that could entertain. Instead it was a low- energy collection of dialogues between unmotivated characters with no story arc and little wit. In other words, it failed to even be a good "B movie".