Woody Harrelson is a masked vigilante who calls himself Defendor, yes it is misspelled but he’s insistent about the pronunciation. He’s a little slow but he’s determined to bring the city’s crime lord, Captain Industry, to justice.
The movie is a great concept that to my knowledge has not been before. I’m not aware of another incident where there’s been an almost retarded “super-hero”. If you don’t count the Hulk. What you have is man with no powers but has a true sense of right and wrong and he’s determined to do what’s right. He ends up stumbling across a deeply rooted conspiracy but he doesn’t quite understand what it is that he’s found. Woody Harrelson does a great job of playing Arthur/Defendor. He’s lovable and doesn’t make fun of the slow population a la Adam Sandler. Instead you admire him. And it makes the point of justice sharper by saying if this man can do this why can’t we?
This is another comedy that left me thinking, “why?” (again, do nooooooot see Taking Woodstock). I chuckled once. And it’s not that the jokes weren’t funny or I didn’t get them, it’s that they weren’t there. It was just not funny with the exception of Woody saying you shouldn’t do drugs. Another negative was Kat Dennings. I don’t like her and I can’t figure out why. But she played her character, one that should have been sympathetic and likeable in a way that made you really dislike her.
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