show. Finally allowing her to perform, Mary's grandmother coaches her and a chorus line of her special education classmates. As the talent show begins, Evian apologizes to Mary, revealing she and Sky will be dancing together. Mary resolves to perform not to impress Sky, but for herself. In a last-minute confession, Mary relinquishes her dream of becoming a star, instead asking to survive the performance for her grandmother’s sake. Mary and her friends perform to “Out Here on My Own” as Slater, summoned by another vision of Jesus, arrives just in time to watch. The record player inadvertently speeds up, and Mary falls – echoing her parents’ fatal performance – but, encouraged by Jesus, she successfully leads her friends through their performance. Met with a standing ovation, Mary wins the talent show. Sky kisses her, but she rejects him, and kisses Slater. The film ends as Mary, now dating Slater, kisses the tree goodbye. Cast Molly Shannon as Mary Katherine Gallagher Will Ferrell as Sky Corrigan/Jesus Harland Williams as Eric Slater Elaine Hendrix as Evian Graham Mark McKinney as Father Tylenol Ritley Glynis Johns as Grandma Gallagher (in her last film role) Jason Blicker as Howard Gerry Bamman as Father John Insomnic Emmy Laybourne as Helen Lewengrub Jennifer Irwin as Maria Rob Stefaniuk as Thomas Smith Natalie Radford as Autumn Winters Karyn Dwyer as Summer Falls Tom Green as Dylan Chuck Campbell as Owen Reception Superstar received negative reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 32% based on reviews from 74 critics, with the consensus: "Dumb script and flat jokes made this another SNL misfire." On Metacritic the film has a score of 42% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film one star out of four, writing: "Here is a portrait of a character so sad and hapless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness." He furthermore described Shannon's character as "hostile" and "not very nice", stating that "She's one of those people who inspires in you the inexplicable desire to be hurtful and cruel". James Berardinelli of ReelViews, who gave the film two out of four stars, said that "Molly Shannon is a likable,