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Title: The Specials (2000)
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Nightbird
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| Rob Lowe | ... |
The Weevil
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| Jamie Kennedy | ... |
Amok
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| Mike Schwartz | ... |
U.S. Bill
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| Paget Brewster | ... |
Ms. Indestructible
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| Kelly Coffield Park | ... |
Power Chick
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| Sean Gunn | ... |
Alien Orphan
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| Judy Greer | ... |
Deadly Girl
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| James Gunn | ... |
Minute Man
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| Jim Zulevic | ... |
Mr. Smart
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Johnny Mountain | ... |
News Anchor
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| John Doe | ... |
Eight
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| Abdul Salaam El Razzac | ... |
Eight
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| Lauren Cohn | ... |
Eight
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America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart. Written by <crow_steve@hotmail.com>
This low-budget improvement on Mystery Men is about real people with slightly unreal abilities that don't save them from personal problems you'll recognize. What saves them is each other. As a bunch of misfits with only their very mild "super" powers and illusions(?) about fighting evil to bind them, this bunch of pretty much ordinary folks is doing the best it can. You see nothing, really, of their comic-book abilities. Instead, we see how they deal with the notion that they have something to contribute to a world that doesn't really appreciate them as it should. Which, I dare say, will reach a lot of the intended audience of this film.
I can't quite explain why, but the close-up look at mostly banal daily problems affecting these earnest do-gooders was heartening. They mean well, even if they can't quite cope any better than the rest of us. That's something we all wish we could say about ourselves, and know it was true. For this bunch, it is true and, deep inside, they do know it. That's, maybe, what actually makes them special. Their lives are a mix of joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, humor and despair. They are probably more fun to watch than to be, but if there were a bunch like this operating in my town, I'd want to join.