Supercool (2021)

★ 5.8 1h 31m IMDb
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Best friends, Neil and Gilbert start their senior year of high school with high hopes and aspirations. Neil has always fantasized about being cool enough to date his long time crush and Gilbert has always dreamed of being a social media super star. After what is, by all accounts, a very disappointing and embarrassing first day in school, Neil makes a magical wish to be cool just at the magical moment when the clock strikes 11:11. The next morning, Neil wakes up to a reality that is straight from the comics of his dreams.

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Jake Short
Jake Short as Neil Age 28 · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Jake Short (born May 30, 1997) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, director and model known for his Disney Channel roles as Fletcher Quimby in A.N.T. Farm and Oliver Oken in Might...
Miles J. Harvey
Miles J. Harvey as Gilbert Age 25 · Peekskill, New York USA Born and raised in Peekskill, NY, Miles J Harvey embarked on his acting career at age five doing small parts in plays at his local theater. At age eight Miles pursued a professional acting career star...
Damon Wayans Jr.
Damon Wayans Jr. as Jimmy Age 43 · Huntington, Vermont, USA Damon Kyle Wayans Jr. (born November 18, 1982) is an American actor and comedian. He starred as Brad Williams in the ABC sitcom Happy Endings, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Televi...
Madison Davenport
Madison Davenport as Summer Age 29 · San Antonio, Texas, USA Madison Danielle Davenport (born November 22, 1996) is an American actress, best known for her role as Kate Fuller in From Dusk till Dawn: The Series. She also appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American G...
Iliza Shlesinger
Iliza Shlesinger as Victoria Age 43 · New York City, New York, USA Iliza Vie Shlesinger (born February 22, 1983) is an American comedian. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused and currently (2016) hos...
Odessa A'zion
Odessa A'zion as Jaclyn Age 25 · Sacramento, California, USA Odessa Zion Segall Adlon (/ˈædlɒn/ AD-lon; born June 17, 2000), known professionally as Odessa A'zion (/əˈzaɪɒn/ ə-ZY-on), is an American actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the CBS ...

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tmdb28039023 1/10 Aug 28, 2022
The premise of Supercool is that if you make a wish at 11:11 it’ll somehow come true. I, for one, whished this movie had never been made during the entirety of its 1:31:54. It opens with a man in a hockey mask firing a machine gun at a school bus; as it turns out, this is the protagonist’s fantasy, but it’s nevertheless in horrible taste. Then again, this is a movie that still believes projectile vomiting is funny (memo to director Teppo Airaksinen: it’s not; it has never been and it never will be).

The main character’s wish morphs him into a more conventionally attractive male model type, so that the movie can subject us to that old, tired shtick where he has to persuade his best friend that it’s really him by fielding questions the answers to which only he and the friend would know. Yawn. Moreover, Airaksinen does the Quantum Leap mirror thing: actor Jake Short plays Neil at all times except when he looks in the mirror, on which occasions he sees, as do we, the likeness of actor Josh Cranston. Now, imagine for a second, if you will, that Tom Hanks only appears in the movie Big whenever (then) child actor David Moscow gazes at a reflective surface, and you’ll have an idea of just how dumb Supercool actually is.

The oddest thing is that Neil does not, in fact, whish for an extreme makeover; what he does wish for is a “Second chance with Summer”, Summer being the girl he likes so much that he apparently can’t help emptying the contents of his stomach all over her. This may well be the most clueless version of the Careful What You Wish For trope I’ve ever seen, but in any case, Neil predictably learns that looks aren’t everything yada yada yada. What he does not learn, however, is that the sexually objectifying drawings he makes of Summer are as offensive as his high school bus shooting fantasy – but then, she doesn’t seem to care either way. Maybe Summer should wish for a second chance too.

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