A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Kind of a unique idea for a dark comedy. Competing comic book store owners trying to outwit each other for a prize collection. Unfortunately the crazed collectors are all, except one, unlikable, unsympathetic, and greedy. The movie is very uneven, with characters morphing from just scheming crazies, to murderers. It is at this point, when almost everyone has transformed into killers, that "Comic Book Villains" seems to have run out of ideas, and rapidly spirals downhill. If after the confrontation in the old ladies home, the script had been fully developed, the movie might have worked better on several levels. As it stands, it is at best, a very mediocre black comedy. - MERK

Sadly, this movie started with some catchy stuff. I didn't know what it was about since I found it on cable TV, but as the movie went on I spotted some good actors and a spice of fun. So I thought that Donal Logue and DJ Qualls (two guys that to me are famous because of the funny as hell characters they play in movies like "Roadtrip" and shows like "Grounded For Life") would make a good movie. Again, sadly I was soon to be disappointed.The plot seemed interesting. Geeky guys that love comic books, I expected to see some wannabe stuff and that, but there was nothing like this. All there is in this movie are crimes, stupid fights and a predictable ending. Let's skip the rest and head to the finale, because nothing really happens during the whole movie but 3 parties fighting for some really valuable comic books. So at the end, the obvious, Raymond and July have committed murders. Why? I don't know, I consider their killings to have been really stupid and senseless, but well, the movie is senseless. So, they gather at Judy's store and then the police arrives. What could have happened? Yes, Raymond goes out and pulls his pistol so that he gets shot to death. Hasn't this already been used like a million times? Yes. Was it needed in the movie? No.The old woman, owner of the books, becomes friends with Archie, the good boy of the movie. And she says when she is dying (she is killed by another bad guy whose presence is almost unnoticeable and really forced) "go to my (defunct) son's closet, he did not only collected comics". I guess at this part of the movie everyone realizes that he had something more valuable. Maybe gold, maybe kryptonite, whatever. Of course it'll be expensive stuff that will change the boy's life.At the very end we see Archie in Europe, the continent he most longed for - more precisely in Barcelona. And then he says the other thing the dead guy collected were baseball cards which costed a lot more than the comics. So finally he finds a girl there and they start talking. I am sure the writers thought "Hey, this movie is about anything but comics. Shouldn't Archie hang her in his arms and go out flying?". Yeah, that would've been fun.Final note: this movie is labeled as "Comedy". Well I found nothing to laugh at in it, I'd say it was a "drama" more than a "comedy".

What is to be said about this wonderful film? A lot of my friends liked this movie until the end and then found it to be offensive and in poor taste…but then again a lot of my friends still live at home with their parents and have no jobs.This film is a tale of a comic book shop owner, and the young man who considers him the only person he can talk to, and a rival comic book shop that simply "got in to it for the money". The two factions apparently have minor skirmishes from time to time as competing businesses, but they go to war when a fan-boy in the neighborhood dies and it is rumored he has the "ultimate collection" On the surface it presents itself as a simple tail of comic book fans going nuts…which it does in fact include, but down deep, it is a tale of greed, deception and insanity.This movie is great for one liners and quotes, and though I give this movie an 8 out of 10, I wouldn't recommend it to you if you want to see a Kevin Smith film.Actually, I take that back, I wouldn't recommend this to you if you want to see a Kevin Smith film that isn't Clerks or Mallrats. If you aren't a comic book fan, don't even bother, you probably won't like it, but if you are a fan, and have the ability to watch a movie for what it is and not try to make comparisons to everything else, you just might like it.Yes the end is a little lax, but the director was trying to make a point…The things you own, own you.Enjoy.

"Comic Book Villains" is a darkly funny movie, but it mainly caters to a relatively small audience. It helps to understand and enjoy this movie if you are a comic book fan. The story revolves around the rival owners of two comic shops, each wanting to obtain a stash of very valuable comic books. Some might call this a clever story, but a lot might not. Donal Logue and DJ Qualls are well cast in the roles on the side of comic book fans. Cary Elwes, on the other hand, seems a bit miscast as a thug hired by Logue to steal the comics. Anyway, if you like comic books, you will like "Comic Book Villains," and might even relate to it. If you are not a comic book fan, at least give it a try!