Mini-Review of "Comic Book: the Movie"

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Director Mark Hamill aims for Christopher Guest and reaches just shy of Kevin Smith.

Mark Hamill's intermittently amusing film about the corruption of comic books by Hollywood aspires to rank along other mockumentaries like "Best in Show" or other critiques of the film industry like "The Player." Instead it has more in common with the cameo-dependent "Mallrats." The documentary style is misused and disjointed: since they made the cameraman one of the characters, who is filming him when he's on? The real fun of the movie, at least for fans of cartoons, comic books and "Star Wars" is the endless parade of comic book writers and voice-over actors.