When you get together with your friends and make a movie it should always be fun and it should come across in the film. That’s what I saw when watching the Texas film, Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone. Charlie Clark, an El Paso car dealer made a film about superheroes with a great Hispanic cast including Danny Trejo. Now I know what you’re thinking, some car salesmen just up and made a movie, it can’t be that good! Is it on the same level as a Marvel movie, no, but it doesn’t have to be, to be a fun movie! That’s why we go to the movies, we want to be entertained, we want to have fun. That’s exactly what superhero movies are for, they’re not meant to be Citizen Kane or Schindler’s List. But not all superhero movies have to be on the same level as Marvel or DC, you can still make an independent superhero movie and it can be fun and entertaining. And it can certainly be worth watching! That’s what this movie is.  It was fun and I can’t wait to watch it again. I think the best part about this movie is it doesn’t take itself too seriously, it knows what it is and it’s not trying to be an Avengers Movie or Justice League. The most brilliant part of this movie is the overdubbing and homage to Asian martial arts movies that have bad dubbing. It feels like a martial arts movie from the ’70s.

Who makes those kinds of movies anymore! As I watch the film, I honestly felt like Charlie Clark and people he knew in the film industry just got together and had fun making a movie with a lot of different tropes you see in superhero movies and martial arts movies. Too many times a film will try to be something that it’s not. It’ll try to be too serious when it should just be entertaining. Martial arts action movies aren’t meant to be inspiring and give us great life lessons, we watch them for the action. The same thing with a superhero movie. So when you have a superhero film that is more of a satire about a superhero’s origin story, you have to appreciate that kind of filmmaking. We know what we get with Marvel in DC, but a satire with lots of great action and cool special effects that would rival any Marvel movie, yes please, give me that kind of film just to be entertained.

These are the kinds of movies that turn out to be cult classics. The story is about a car salesman who learns that he is part of a bigger destiny, where he, along with family members have to save the world. He has secret powers and when the family unites, they use the power of a magic Stone to defeat darkness and stave off the Apocalypse. Yes, of course, we’ve heard this kind of story before, but that’s not the point. What if you had a superhero who can’t unlock his full potential unless he wears his Mexican wrestler outfit, hence the Green Ghost, which is brilliant! Sure, it’s a little bit goofy, and of course, you have the drunken martial arts wise men, one of them played by Danny Trejo. Yes, not original, but still funny, just like the machete movies.

My point is sometimes superhero movies take themselves too seriously and to make one that is more of a satire makes for a better film than half the stuff we see every year and review that’s critics. What Charlie Clark is giving us is a fun goofy superhero movie that will keep us entertained and I will even admit that it is a better film than some of the Marvel origin stories. Not only did they put together a great Hispanic cast with Kuno Becker, Marko Zaror, Renée Victor, Sofia Pernas, Elpidia Carrillo, Pepe Serna, and Danny Trejo. Green Ghost is a well-put-together film that looks just as good as any superhero movie that we ever reviewed. Plus, it’s nice to have a superhero film where you get a bit of an antihero. It’s clear that this was a passion project by Charlie Clark and it’s a good one. I like the film very much and even though it’s not the best superhero movie ever made, it’s a funny, goofy, satirical action movie that’s just great entertainment. That’s something I can’t always say about a movie.  It’s one I think everybody should check out.  It may not get a wide release in theaters, so what, it’s definitely worth the rental, and I for one look forward to owning a copy on Blu-ray. It may not be the superhero movie we really wanted,  but it’s the one we need these days.   I applaud the efforts of Charlie Clark and his crew in making a fun Texas superhero movie that gives moviegoers pure entertainment.