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Today I will show you an action, comedy, sci-fi film from 2018, titled Superlopez.
Spoilers ahead!
Watch out and take care.
In a galaxy far away, planet Chitón lives under the dictatorship of evil Admiral Skorba.
One evening, renown scientist Jan and his wife have a baby that he's been experimenting
with for months now, making him the ultimate weapon to save their planet.
However, Skorba has learned about this and is now quickly approaching their laboratory.
Since hiding the baby would only delay his capture, Jan accepts he has no other choice
and puts him in a small spacecraft that he sends to the USA on Earth.
After the baby is gone, Skorba arrives with his daughter Agata, who reads Jan's mind and
discovers what he's done with the baby.
Skorba gives her a mission then: she must take the other spacecraft and follow the baby
to capture him.
Agata does as ordered, but when they are about to arrive at Earth, the baby's ship crashes
against a satellite, causing it to change trajectory: while Agata continues the journey
to the USA, the baby lands in Spain's countryside.
A humble couple finds the baby and decides to adopt him even if they find his mustache
extremely weird.
They call him Juan López and take him home with them together with the spacecraft, which
they hide in the garage.
As they begin living with Juan, they learn pretty quickly that this boy has extraordinary
abilities besides making the mustache come back whenever they shave it: he has super
strength, super speed, x-ray vision, and freeze breath among others.
Unfortunately, whenever he displays these abilities, people would consider him a weirdo,
and by the time he turns ten, he hasn't made a single friend.
His parents tell him he would've been appreciated and respected in other countries, but in Spain,
to fit in he needs to be mediocre and play pretend.
Twenty years pass after his tenth birthday, and Juan is now living alone in the big city
and keeps his powers hidden.
One morning, his best friend and supervisor Jaime González Lidenbrock wakes him up through
the phone, demanding to know why he isn't at work yet.
Juan pretends he is already at the office and uses his super-speed to wash, change and
run to the office, appearing at his desk before Jaime can catch on to his lie.
Gossiping as a friend, Jaime tells Juan that he's hired a new employee that he felt he
had some sparks with during the eight interviews he called her for, since he mistakenly believes
interviews can equal dates.
When he mentions he wants to throw her a welcome party, which this office never does for new
employees, Juan refuses to participate and leaves his desk to have breakfast.
When someone rings the bell, he uses his x-ray vision to discover the new employee is Luisa
Lanas, an old friend of Juan from university.
He opens the door for her, happy to learn she still remembers him, and ends up inviting
her to the little welcome party he suddenly has changed his mind about.
After working hours are over, they throw the little party, which ends up being just Juan,
Luisa, Jaime, and two janitors that Jaime is making stay by force.
When Luisa excuses herself to go to the bathroom, Juan uses his superhearing to listen to the
conversation she's having on the phone with a friend, mentioning how she's creeped out
by the way Jaime keeps coming onto her, but she's glad Juan is there as well.
This inspires Juan not to leave the party when Jaime asks him to with the intention
of being alone with her, but when Juan takes a moment to go to the kitchen and use his
freeze breath on the tap water to make ice for their drinks, Luisa leaves.
Not giving up yet, Juan uses his super-speed and finds Luisa at the subway station, where
they agree to get pizza together.
At the restaurant, they're having a nice chat when a group of obnoxious teenagers arrives
and start making lots of noise while playing pool.
Luisa confronts them and event hits one with her purse when they insult her, but the teenagers
only laugh at them and even make Juan fall by playing an old trick where one of them
would crawl behind him without him noticing and the other pushes him over with just a
finger.
This frustrates Juan, but he does nothing about it to protect his identity.
Moments later, while waiting for the subway to go home, he thinks about what his father
has taught him and wonders if it truly is worth staying hidden when suddenly, the subway
train passes by completely out of control.
After seeing a sign with an ad for Chit that says today is the perfect day to take that
first step, Juan jumps on the tracks and uses his superspeed to arrive at the next station
before the train does.
However, when he tries to stop it, his strength proves not to be enough and the train just
drags him away with it.
Juan uses his superspeed again to reach the final station and creates a barrier with the
emergency fire hose, which manages to push the train back when it arrives and prevents
a crash from happening.
After the danger is over, everyone in the station stares at Juan, who steals a cap from
a random passenger to cover his face as he runs out of there.
The next day, the news of a man stopping a subway train reaches the Spanish news, but
they also reach a now adult Agata Müller, who is still in the USA working as the CEO
of Chit, the biggest electronic company in the world.
She's never stopped searching for Juan, and now that she finally has a clue, she and her
army of robot clones will fly to Spain to find him.
Meanwhile, at the office, the employees are also discussing the subway story, except for
Luisa.
After commenting on the fact Jaime continues to show creepy behavior, like the fact he's
already printed five hundred business cards with her name, she gives Juan one while commenting
on the fact she thinks a Spanish superhero would be very pathetic because superheroes
should be American, English or Japanese, perhaps even German.
After they agree to go out for dinner together again, their conversation is interrupted by
a jealous Jaime that comments on the fact the famous Agata is coming to Spain to meet
the mysterious subway hero - this makes Luisa even more sure that the whole thing is just
a publicity stunt.
Eager to return to her home planet, Agata calls her father to tell him she's found Jan's
son and that her technology is in every household of the world, controlling it all.
Skorba, however, is very dismissive of her for having taken decades to make any kind
of progress and tells her he'll only believe it when he sees it.
In the meantime, Juan is on a bus on his way to meet Luisa when suddenly a killing headache
starts bouncing in his head as a pitching sound makes his ears hurt.
It's Agata, directly talking into his mind to tell him to come see her at the Chit building.
Curious enough to want to know what's going on, Juan goes to said building, where he's
invited to the CEO's office to have dinner with Agata.
She tells Juan that he's an alien like her and that she could take him home among their
people, who won't judge him for his abilities.
Juan doesn't believe her and tries to leave, so Agata, after reading his mind and learning
about his affections for Luisa, sends her army of robot clones to stop him.
Juan isn't a trained fighter, but thanks to his superpowers, he only needs to flail around
to defeat the robots, who are no match for him.
There's a lot of them though, and they never stop coming, so when the robots push him to
the ground and form a pile on top of him, Juan sneaks out from under them and takes
the elevator to finally leave.
Agata doesn't give up, however, and when she finds she's forgotten his jacket, she looks
inside his pockets and finds Luisa's business card, giving her the information she needs
for her next plan.
Since Chit technology is everywhere, it's easy for her to gain control of the cleaning
robot they have at Juan's office and she uses it to take a DNA sample from Luisa's cup.
Then the robot connects itself to a computer to send her this information, and the noises
get the attention of Jaime, who is working late.
When he sees the information being transferred on the computer screen, he tries to pick up
the little robot only to get electrocuted by it.
Then the robot starts chasing him through the office, revealing it's been hiding spider-like
legs, so Jaime takes a coat rack and, after asking the janitors for help, the three of
them begin smashing the robot until isn't working anymore.
Sadly, it's too late: the DNA information has already finished transferring by the time
they're done.
Jaime tries to call Luisa to warn her, but she isn't picking up the phone.
The other person that is trying to contact Luisa is Juan, who shows up at her place and
finds her coming from the restaurant utterly drunk.
He tries to apologize and tells her he's had a crazy night, but she gets angry when he
can't reveal why and tries to get him to spend the night with her.
Juan refuses, explaining he can't take advantage of a drunk woman, but when Luisa calls him
a coward, he at least gives her a good kiss before leaving.
The kiss has been seen from afar by Jaime, who had come with the robot to warn Luisa
and now feels betrayed by Juan.
At that moment, Agata arrives in her van and after reading Jaime's mind, she sees he's
also in love with Luisa, which she can use as part of her plan too.
Seeing as this woman is both Juan's and Jaime's weakness, she's made a robot clone of her,
and she promises Jaime he can have the real one if he accepts to help her.
The following day, Juan arrives at his parents' house and demands to know the truth.
At first, they try to change the subject, but Juan insists and they eventually give
in, confessing that yes, he is indeed an alien, and they even show him the spacecraft they've
kept hidden all this time.
When Juan presses a button, a hologram of Jan appears and proceeds to explain everything,
ending with an important note: Juan is expected to go back and save Chitón from Skorba.
Juan has no interest in being anybody's hero, no matter how much his mother tells him he's
their only hope.
With the baby sheet she finds inside the spacecraft, she makes a superhero outfit for Juan, which
includes a cape.
Superheroes usually wear capes for flying, but Juan isn't sure if he can do that in the
first place, so he goes to the roof of the house and tries to fly, only to immediately
fall on the ground.
Thinking this has been a waste of time, Juan tries to leave, and on the road, he comes
across three teenagers that make fun of him for his clothes.
When one of the boys gives him the middle finger, Juan responds with the sign of the
horns, which causes him to start levitating.
As the teens run away in fear, Juan makes the same gesture with his other hand, and
this finally allows him to fly high in the sky.
He can't control it yet though, so first, he falls on the Mallorca shore, and his second
try drops him at Vizcaya.
It's by the third try that he finally gets the hang out of it and he returns home, although
he can't help entering it through the window.
After his mother helps him hide the supersuit under his clothes, the Luisa robot arrives
to see him.
Juan does think she's acting a bit strange but doesn't suspect anything yet, so he takes
her to his room to speak in private.
He tells her everything that has happened to him and Julia, who is being controlled
by Agata, acts very accepting and tries to convince him to go back to his planet and
help his people.
But Juan is still thinking about the kiss they shared last night and doesn't want to
leave her, so Jaime, who is working with Agata, takes over the robot clone's controls and
makes Luisa tell Juan that the kiss was awful and hitting on her had been an act of betrayal
towards Jaime.
This gives Juan something to think about and he admits she's right, Jaime has been the
only friend he ever has and he cares about him, so he should be more considerate.
This touches Jaime deeply, causing him to cry and not want to play along with this plan
anymore, so Agata moves onto plan B. Robot Luisa kisses Juan then punches him before
grabbing him and tossing him through the wall into the living room.
As she comes downstairs too, Juan struggles to take off his civilian clothes, but once
he's done, he engages robot Luisa in physical combat.
The fight, at first, seems to be pretty even, but when Juan's mother distracts Luisa, Juan
takes the chance and smashes her head off with a ham leg.
Seeing as her plan has failed, Agata tries to use Jaime to get the real Luisa for her,
but Jaime doesn't want to help her anymore.
After reading his mind and finding out he's called Juan to warn him, Agata captures Jaime
and begins thinking about her next move.
Meanwhile, Juan calls Luisa to learn she's in Barcelona, so he flies there to meet her
by the Arc de Triomf.
He tries to explain everything to her, but she doesn't believe him, so he starts taking
off his civilian clothes right there in the middle of the park to give her a demonstration.
When he's about to fly above the arc, however, he's stopped by a group of men dressed as
famous cartoon characters that tell him that to work in that area he needs permission from
their boss.
At that moment, a Chit van arrives and kidnaps Luisa, but Juan can't go after her because
the fake superheroes keep getting in his way.
As the men try to beat him up, Juan struggles with another message from Agata in his mind,
telling him she has Luisa and he knows where to find them.
While moving around in pain, Juan dodges a couple of hits and the angry workers end up
fighting each other, so he takes the chance to fly away and go to the Chit offices.
There, he finds Luisa and Jaime cuffed to a wall.
They try to warn him not to step out of the elevator because it's a trap, but since they're
yelling at the same time, Juan can't understand them and falls for it anyway.
When he tries to help his friends, a set of giant speakers on the walls begins producing
an extremely high-pitched sound that hurts his super ears, torturing him with excruciating
pain.
Thinking about how these scenes usually go in superhero movies, Jaime tells Luisa to
give him a speech about how much she likes him and believes in him, but it doesn't work.
Jaime insult Juan for being a pathetic superhero, and for a second there, Juan seems to recover.
This indicates that he's the opposite of the classic superhero stories and he reacts better
to insults because he wants to prove them wrong, so when Luisa notices this, she begins
to insult every aspect of him, and soon Jaime joins her as well.
Thanks to their twisted support, Juan manages to gain some strength and destroy a wall with
his heat vision, then he breaks their cuffs and takes them both flying with him to hide
at his parent's home.
Agata doesn't see this on the security cameras because at the moment, Skorba arrives at Earth.
He shows no interest in having an emotional reunion with his daughter after so long, he
only wants to see Juan.
When Agata takes him to the main chamber, they find out they've escaped.
Skorba begins ranting and scolding Agata, saying he never thought she could catch Juan,
calling her useless, an embarrassment for the family, and wishing she wasn't his daughter.
Tired of dealing with his toxicity, Agata finally steps for herself and disconnects
his oxygen tank, effectively killing him.
She reads his mind before he passes out for good and sees he finally is proud of her for
this villainous act before she takes over his floating throne and gets ready for a new
plan.
At the López's house, Juan tells Luisa he doesn't want to be a superhero and tries to
burn the supersuit, but it's made of a fireproof fabric.
At that moment, Agata arrives in her father's spaceship and descends using the floating
throne, which she proceeds to transform into a robot after telling Juan she's going to
destroy Earth.
Juan rushes to put on his supersuit, which proves to be difficult because it's rather
hot at the moment.
His delay gives Agata time to come closer and aim her robot at him, but she's suddenly
distracted by Juan's father firing his shotgun at her.
Agata uses the robot's special arm to try to suction the man and Juan tries to prevent
it, but his grip on his father's hand isn't strong enough to stop the robot from sucking
him in.
Then Agata hits Juan a couple of times before tossing him away with such strength that he
lands in the middle of a Barcelona match.
While the three teenagers from earlier show up and begin recording everything, Juan comes
back with the Barcelona goal net and throws it at the robot with an awful aim, catching
his mother instead.
Agata suctions in the woman as well before punching Juan to get him on the ground and
stomp on him over and over.
When she takes out the electric saw to finally finish him, Jaime appears in front of her
to distract her, which is part of a plan Luisa has convinced him to do.
As Agata goes after him and sucks him as well, Luisa comes out of the garage driving the
Lopez's truck.
It's her cries of help that wake Juan up this time, and she asks him to pull the same trick
the teenagers at the pizza place had done on him.
She parks the truck in front of the pool before running away, and Juan punches the robot until
it is in the right spot.
After he tells Agata his name is Superlópez, he uses his freeze breath on the robot cockpit
before pushing it over, causing it to trip on the truck and fall in the water, which
damages it beyond repair.
Juan's parents and Jaime come out of the pool wet but safe, but also does Agata.
Juan's mother reminds him that his home planet is still waiting for his help, and Juan tells
her not to worry because he has a plan.
Days later, Skorba's spaceship returns to Chitón, carrying Agata and the fake superhero
from the park that everyone believes to be Juan and names him the new leader of the planet.
Back on Earth, Juan has become a proper superhero, but the press and the general public don't
like him very much.
He and Luisa have also begun dating, although Luisa is very frustrated with Juan for always
arriving late because of all the superheroing he does.
During one of their many dates at a restaurant, the waiter tells them someone has already
paid for their bill and points at a mysterious man by the bar that disappears after calling
Juan Superlópez and telling him he owes him one, only leaving a pacifier behind.