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SUPERSTAR - REVIEW

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The SNL spin-off movies are a patchy affair, to say the least. For every Blues Brothers , there's a Blues Brothers 2000 , for every Wayne's World , there's an It's Pat: The Movie . Superstar sees Molly Shannon reprise her Mary Katherine Gallagher role from the show. Molly Shannon's creation is awkward and odd yet egomaniacal and driven: she's deeply unpopular at the Catholic school she attends but remains convinced that she is a "superstar" and that her big break is coming. Cue lots of jokes about how desperate she is and some loud slapstick where she crashes into things. There's also a romantic subplot as she soon becomes interested in the school's most popular hunk Sky Corrigan, played by a reliably entertaining Will Ferrell. Story-wise, it's all rather predictable, mostly because it parodies teen movies centred around a school competition and the clichés of the genre are so familiar they leave little in the way of surprises. There&