If you have never heard of, or seen, the fabled web series “Italian Spiderman” then you are in for a true treat. A webseries created and posted to YouTube in 2007 by Australian fimmakers Alrugo Entertainment (Dario Russo, Tait Wilson, David Ashby, Will Spartalis, and Boris Repasky), it is probably the best retro post-modern superhero parody imagining ever created.
It is actually more a parody of the many foreign film versions of American superhero properties than it is a parody of the original version of “Spider-Man”. If you have not seen the Japanese Spider-Man TV series or the Indian Superman movie, then you must rush off to YouTube instantly and search for the clips (or I will try to track down free online streaming versions in the weeks to come and post them here).
Below, I have put all 10 episodes into a continuous playlist and embedded them. You should be able to play the first episode and the it will automatically start playing each successive episode. Have fun and see you on the other side of the embed.
The Alrugo gang has gone on to create another awesome series on Australian Television called ‘Danger 5’ (which I hope to get a copy of the first season soon). “Danger 5” takes place in an awesome alternate reality world in which the evil Adolph Hitler has survived World War 2 and rules a good chunk of Europe. It follows a band of plucky Matt Helm/Our Man Flint-like heroes who are tasked with tracking him down and removing him as a threat to the world.