This new French comedy on Netflix could be the summer cardboard

Pop culture online this Friday, July 9 on Netflix, the film event how I became superhero with Pio Marmai and Benoît Poelvoorde enchanted the press.

By Adil Adli

After seeing his outing at the cinema quirky several times (he was originally to be unveiled on the screens in October 2020), how I became superheroes arrived against all expectations on Netflix this Friday, July 9.The first film behind the camera of actor and screenwriter Douglas Attal (Radiostars) is one of the most anticipated French feature films of 2021. With a modest budget of 15 million euros, how I became superheroInvests the Hollywood genre par excellence of the superheroic film by integrating a more social tone.

In today's Paris, supermen are trivialized and integrated into society.A substance that allows people who do not have a super-power to have been the subject of traffic in the capital.While incidents are increasing, the lieutenants Moreau (Pio Marmai) and Schaltzmann (Vimala Pons) decide to conduct the investigation, well helped by Monté Carlo (Benoît Poelvoorde) and Callista (Leila Bekhti).When Moreau's past reappears, the investigation takes a different and complex turn.The proposal of how I became a superhero is risky so Marvel and DC Comics have invested and conquered the genre of the superhero film for more than a decade.However, the press has apparently been thrilled by the feature film.The positive criticism of Douglas Attal's first try are very numerous.

Many see how I became superheroes like the possible “falling French blockbuster”. This is the case of the inrockuptibles who describe the proposal of “delightful, intrinsically French without being frank”. The fantastic screen magazine congratulates the humility of the project, which does not pretend to be up to American blockbusters but favors the dimension Human of the characters. The Journal du Geek goes so far as to qualify the film as “Little Miracle”, whose success is revealed in the mixture of genres (the police film and the superhero film). 'Enthusiasm of the ability of the film to offer a world in which the spectator can instantly find himself: “What immediately grasps with this proposal which smells good spandex and the Potato of Surman Spectator. This Paris invaded by the superheroes is palpable, sensitive, simultaneously familiar and unpublished, "writes journalist Simon Riaux.

Mixed opinions have also appeared.This is the case of France Inter, where journalist Redwane Telha expressed his disappointment in a chronicle broadcast on the station.“History does not hold water.We never get attached to these characters.And then the dialogues ... is there a good screenwriter to write credible dialogues in France?The more I look at French fictions, the more I tell myself that it is surreal, "he regretted.The first journal congratulates the ambition of the film but also finds it unfinished, without much originality.How I became superhero has been online since this Friday, July 9, so you can also now do your opinion on this film that will make a lot of talk in the coming weeks.