Adapted from writer/director Jon Drever’s terrifically cute and pithy 2009 short film of the same name, this uneven but gently amusing expansion follows meteorically transformed Bob Kenner as he spends his day off on the streets of Peckham (“people say it’s a bit stabby”) and clocks in at the MoD, where his invincible flying powers are in bureaucratic demand. An inventively witty low-budget British riposte to Hancock, SuperBob doesn’t quite negotiate some of its tonal shifts between mock-doc rom-com and traffic-accident tragedy, but co-writer and star Brett Goldstein holds it all together very amiably, while Catherine Tate, Natalia Tena and Ruth Sheen provide solidly entertaining support.
