Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8206 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-01-22
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, Greek
• Dubbed in: Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Superstar is a big-screen vehicle for Molly Shannon, the latest comic from the American sketch show Saturday Night Live to have a movie built around her. She isn't exactly funny--in fact, she's a little unsettling. Her creation, the neurotic Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, invites laughter because she's a little too close to the bone for anyone who grew up feeling ugly and unloved, which is a lot of people. Mary lives with her grandmother (Glynis Johns), who insists that Mary study business. Mary herself yearns to be famous and admired, though for what isn't exactly clear; she envisions some vague combination of singing, dancing, and acting that will make her a superstar. A talent show promises to be her ticket to stardom (the winning prize is a role in "a movie with positive moral values"), and she won't let her loser status or any hostile cheerleaders stand in her way. Meanwhile, Mary acts out dating fantasies with trees and signposts, envisions the school lunch room bursting into a Fame-like dance number, and longs for the biggest jock in school. What makes Superstar more than just a collection of bad high school memories is that, though the formulaic plot redeems Mary, the movie as a whole isn't so sure. Mary completely loses herself in her obsessive fantasies--many inspired by cheesy made-for-TV movies--but there's always someone watching, aghast, as Mary acts out her inner thoughts. Is she misunderstood or freakish? Superstar never commits to one side or the other, which makes it both comic and uncomfortable. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Special Features
1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
German\Hungarian
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Surround German Hungarian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Surround
Theatrical Trailer
Arabic\Bulgarian\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish

Synopsis
Shannon portrays Mary Katherine Gallagher, the terminally bumbling, energy-stuffed Catholic schoolgirl whose one wish is to kiss Sky (Ferrell), the hunkiest fella at St. Monica's High School. Mary Katherine thinks her only chance at stealing Sky away from his gorgeous girlfriend Evian (Hendrix) is to become a star, and her only chance at accomplishing this task is by entering St. Monica's talent contest and winning a role as an extra in a Catholic-approved, morally-correct movie. McCulloch's film is, like most Saturday Night Live-big screen adaptations, more a series of loose sketches that keep the viewer laughing throughout.

Customer Reviews

PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE...
Comedienne Molly Shannon recreates her Saturday Night Live character, Mary Katherine Gallagher, the gawky catholic school girl, for the big screen. At times, the film is very funny. Unfortunately, it is not very funny as often as one would like. What works great as a five minute skit on Saturday Night Live does not necessarily make for a great, full length, feature film, even though quite a few of the Saturday Night Live regulars have parts in it.

The film revolves around Mary Katherine Gallagher and her attempts to fit in and make the most popular boy in the school want her the way she wants him. She also wants to be a superstar in the worst way, even though her grandmother with whom she lives wants her to become a business woman. She does get her big break, however, when her school has a talent contest.

Some of the funniest scenes in the movie occur when Mary Katherine, absorbed in her romantic fantasies and impervious to her surroundings, has a one sided conversation with an apparent fantasy lover for whom she substitutes a tree as a stand in. At times, she even acts out her romantic fantasy with the tree. Imagine it with a nun standing in the background observing Mary Katherine. It is hilarious. Unfortunately, those moments are few and far between. Still, if you are a Mary Katherine Gallagher fan, you will enjoy the film. If not, you may be disappointed.

Amazingly Super !
I went over to America and this film was on in the the cinema. I have never laughed so much in my life. I bought the film when it came out in america and now all my friends want to watch it! I really think this is a great HIT and you should buy it if you want a great belly laugh

The funniest movie i have ever seen
Last summer I worked in America for 6 months and whilst there I spent a lot of time in the local video shop renting films. One of the films I watched was "Superstar" starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrel. I had already seen these two actors in hilarious films, Shannon as Anita in Never Been Kissed and Ferrel as Mustafa in Austin Powers as well as stars of Saturday Night Live.

It tells the story of a geeky type girl who is 15 and at High School where she has the biggest crush in the world on the high school hunk. All she wants is for him to notice her and decides the best way to do this is through the Talent Contest. However, this will not be as easy as she thinks as her school friends are all in special ed, the bimbos and jocks hate her and her Granny is 52 cards short of a deck.

I watched the film that night and was so impressed and so dehydrated from crying with laughter that I pressed rewind and watched it again. I don't know what was funnier, two thirty somethings playing 15 year olds or Molly Shannon snogging a tree several times.

Overall, having seen this film about 20 times and eagerly awaiting for it to be published in the UK, I highly recommend you treat yourself and buy it, if you don't find it funny then there is something seriously wrong with you - I would give it 6 stars if I could. Enjoy.