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IMDb rating 5.8
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Critic rating 6

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Critic M.N. Miller
rated 7

...entertaining, funny, and genuinely engaging.

Read full review at Ready Steady Cut
Critic Brian Costello
rated 6

...an entertaining movie, with the expected hints of a sequel that come across as something to look forward to...

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Critic Roger Moore
rated 5

And the film being French, it manages the sexiest superhero scene since “Spider-Man.”

Read full review at Movie Nation

Cast & Crew

Douglas Attal
Director
Benoît Poelvoorde
As Monté Carlo
Clovis Cornillac
As Gigaman
Hubert Saint-Macary
As Professeur Dato
Gilles Cohen
As Commissaire Chairmont
Leïla Bekhti
As Callista

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In a world where superheroes and humans coexist, a solitary police officer and a brilliant detective join forces to take down a sinister plot to extract superpowers from mere mortals. With the help of two former superheroes, they must stop the trafficking of this new drug before it falls into the wrong hands. But as they delve deeper into the case, the officer's past comes back to haunt him, making the investigation more complicated than they ever imagined.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as How I Became a Superhero include Everything Everywhere All at Once, Kung Fu Panda 4, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Ghosted, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Love and Monsters.

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How I Became a Superhero was released for streaming on July 9, 2021.