A dumbass “Kick-Ass,” the superhero comedy “Griff the Invisible” sits on the screen like a steaming lump of Kryptonite.
Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”) stars as an office worker with a secret identity as Griff, a rubber-suited vigilante who thinks he is fighting crime by night. While he’s working on an invisibility suit, he meets an unexpected ally in his brother’s girlfriend (Maeve Dermody), a weirdo who calls herself an “experimentalist.” She reasons that she might be able to walk through walls because there is so much open space in each bodily atom.
Slow-witted, slow-footed and unbearably twee, “Griff the Invisible” proves that warmed-over comic-book-movie clichés (“I have powers — and with these powers comes responsibility;” a giant “G” signal projected in the sky) need considerably more than mere whimsy and pseudo-scientific babble to perk them up. This Australian movie, made with subsidies from that country’s government, simply should have saved taxpayers the expense in the first place.