In between cranking out
family comedies for Walt Disney Productions, actor Dean Jones made this rotten flick
for a consortium of European companies. Riddled with frenetic camera zooms,
horrible voice dubbing, and weird musical scoring, Mr. Superinvisible tries to mimic the Disney formula and fails on
nearly every level. The plot is convoluted and stupid, the slapstick gags and
verbal jokes are unfunny, and the special effects look cheap. By comparison,
even the weakest of the movies that Jones made for Disney seems like masterpieces of kid-friendly entertainment. In Mr. Superinvisible, Jones plays Peter, an American scientist
working in a European lab on a cure for the common cold. Concurrently, one of
his colleagues discovers a formula for rendering living beings invisible.
Through silly circumstances, Peter becomes invisible shortly after criminals steal his current experiment, which they mistakenly believe is a
biological weapon. Peter uses his invisibility to defeat the villains—but
not before wasting enormous amounts of time embarrassing suave coworker Harold (Gastone Moschin), a rival for the affections of beautiful scientist
Irene (Ingeborg Schoener). Mr.
Superinvisible is filled with things guaranteed to annoy any thoughtful
viewer. One of the supporting players gives a Peter Lorre impression
instead of a performance. A fluffy dog is the most developed supporting
character. One scene involves Jones, while invisible, blowing raspberries in
order to give the impression that Harold is flatulent. The climax involves
exploding eggs. All of this drags on for 91 dreary minutes, replete with music suitable for a softcore sex farce. Even though Jones gives his usual valiant
effort, his affability is not nearly enough to make Mr. Superinvisible tolerable.
Mr. Superinvisible: LAME
2 comments:
K-tel. 'Nuff said.
A few months back, this was available to stream on Amazon Prime, so I tried watching it. Dean Jones is one of those actors whom I once really enjoyed but now find almost intolerable and even though he tries manfully to invest this with life, WOW is this movie TERRIBLE!!! You are SO on the spot with mentioning the wholesale apeing of the Disney style (on the tiniest fraction of the budget). Everything about this disaster screams that ersatz quality of 1970's European-made films trying to replicate American comedies, right down to the godawful ADR. I'm a bad-movie junkie but this one's just...whew...it's rough.
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