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This month is \u201cDark Hero\u201d month at Catching Up On Cinema

All month long, Kyle and Trevor will be reviewing superhero movies\nof the antihero or dark hero variety!

This week, Trevor and Kyle are joined by the latter's brother,\nNik, to review Mark A.Z. Dippe's, Spawn (1997)!

Adapted from Todd McFarlane's comic of the same name, Spawn (1997)\nis a messy and often boring superhero film from the nu metal school\nof aesthetics and tone.

Debuting via publisher Image Comics in 1992, Spawn's popularity\ncontinues to endure to this day, leading to guest appearances in\nvideo games like Mortal Kombat 11, and a long rumored 2nd\nlive action film currently being pitched to Blumhouse and other film\nstudios.

Starring Michael Jai White as the titular Spawn/Al Simmons, the\nfilm represents the feature directorial debut of Mark Dippe, whose\nexperience in CGI animation and compositing likely served as the\nimpetus for putting him at the helm of an effects intensive film like\nSpawn.

Uneven in pace, tone, and consistency of effects quality, Spawn is\na frustrating film that's fleeting positive elements are so scant,\nand zip by with such rapidity, that the film's trailer may very well\nconsist of every worthwhile shot in the film.

Financially successful (after rental and VHS sales), Spawn, much\nlike the comic from which its, for lack of a better term, spawned,\nretains a mixed legacy, of being alternately reviled, or lauded\nas a cult classic, depending on who you ask, and more importantly,\nhow big a fan they are of Korn or Marilyn Manson.

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