Superstar: Critic Reviews

About as funny as an oozing fever blister.

Another SNL misfire.

Simply stated, there's not a movie's worth of story here.

Superstar will rank closer to Wayne's World than It's Pat or Roxbury. In Saturday Night Live terms, that constitutes a masterpiece.

Synonymous with crap.

Contrasting the erotic with the disgusting is usually provocative and can be funny, but not in this underdog comedy.

A pleasant surprise.

The funniest SNL movie since Wayne's World.

A stick-figure Rembrandt that provides neither the quick surreal poke of a TV satire nor the full lustre of an actual movie.

Even SNL fans will find this movie too long.

Mary Katherine Gallagher takes a little getting used to for the unwitting viewer. She grows on you, though, and, despite yourself, you get to like her quirky ways.

This movie manages to have more touching and hilarious moments than most schlock comedies could hope for.

Much more enjoyable than the sketches on which it is based, and Shannon's performance is brimming with fun and energy.

I've seen this sketch numerous times on SNL -- it isn't funny at five minutes, at 90 minutes it's unbearable.

"Saturday Night Live"-sketch-turned-film is slight -- and surprisingly enjoyable.

Seriously awful one-joke stupidity.

In the higher middle of producer Lorne Michaels' cinematic oeuvre.

Bikini waxing and pulling chin hairs is much more enjoyable.

While the plot is well-worn and somewhat clumsily put together, the fine performance of Shannon as the main character powers the movie along pretty well until the film stumbles to its predictable conclusion.

It's one of the more watchable spin-offs from the show.

There are some pretty goofy moments here, but the movie looks like it was just thrown together as a quickie to capitalize on SNL's anniversary.

I was amused. I wasn't exactly enthralled, but that's nothing to be surprised about when attending a film based on a 9-minute television skit.

Just picture an SNL skit that doesn't know when to end, with no musical guest or at least a few commercials to break up the monotony, and you begin to get the idea.

The three-dimensional and genuinely talented Shannon is a real find.

Weighing in at 82 minutes, it's nothing more than a one-joke SNL skit stretched into a full-length motion picture.