In a cinematic smorgasbord littered with literally dozens and dozens of superhero movies, it can be hard to find something really unique that still gives levels of familiarity. Super Charlie is a fun children’s film about a baby getting superpowers, and it feels just different enough to avoid superhero fatigue. 

The animation in the film is really good. The digital animation works in a way to make it feel like stop motion at times. This might sound like the digital was sketchy and there was something wrong, but it was effective enough that at times I was looking around the characters to see around the models at 3D aspects that weren’t there. 

One of the big points of this film, which will resonate with a lot of people, is what happens to the youngest child when he becomes the middle child. Willie faces the struggles of becoming the invisible, not listened to, middle child when his baby brother Charlie comes along. It affects the way he behaves for the rest of the film, and it adds a surprisingly deep touch to what could have been just a simple, funny film. 

This is most definitely a film aimed at the younger side of the cinema audiences, and it’s great for it. It’s bright and colourful. It tells a simple story, and it tells it well. It doesn’t tread any new ground. Everything in it has been seen before, but it weaves all of the classic tropes together into a fabric that works really well. 

Overall. This isn’t a movie that’s going to crack all-time top 10 lists in any way, but I can easily see this becoming a steady watch in a lot of homes and could see it being the favourite film for lots of people. It’s bright, colourful, fun and resonates on levels that a lot of films for the same audiences simply don’t.

I had a lot more fun watching it than I expected to, and for that reason I’m giving it a 3.5/5… 

Super Charlie will be in UK Cinemas from 15th August and on Digital Download from 29th September

A Bright, Colourful and Fun Movie

Movie title: Super Charlie

Movie description: Wille's dream of fighting crime with his cop dad is shattered when his baby brother Charlie arrives. Besides stealing all the attention, Charlie turns out to have actual superpowers.

Date published: August 5, 2025

Country: UK

Duration: 1h 22m

Director(s): Jon Holmberg

Actor(s): Orlando Wahlsteen, Silas Strand, Sven Björklund

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantsay

3.5

Summary

This film is aimed at younger cinema audiences and is great for them. It is bright and colourful.

Simon Henderson

Simon Henderson began his journey with his podcast, Inspire Indie Radio, set up to promote independent, and unsigned, artists and help get their music out to other audiences. This is a big passion of his and something he is very proud to do.

One of his other big passions is movies and he followed up the podcast with movie reviews “from the mind of an average guy” on Tumblr. After a while he wanted to bring everything together under one name and so he chose Average Guy Entertainments because, as he is oft quoted as saying, “I’m just an Average Guy.”