The Wonderfools is a comic book style superhero story from South Korea. It’s slapstick comedy coupled with a story about unlikely heroes saving the world from a mad scientist. I enjoyed the humor. It took me back to things like The Keystone Cops and Abbott and Costello.

The Wonderfools gets off to a slow start as it introduces the characters and the situation. Once those details are out of the way, the action takes off.

Chae-ni (Park Eun-bin) was the star for me. She had Harley Quinn style energy. She was big, chaotic, loud, and a misfit. Although she was 27, she still lived with her grandmother (Kim Hae-sook) because she had a bad heart was could die at any moment. Chae-ni wanted to travel but her rich grandmother wouldn’t give her any money to travel because of her health.

Chae-ni had two friends. Ro-bin (Im Sung-jae) worked in the grandmother’s restaurant, doing chores in the kitchen. He wasn’t very smart. Kyung-hoon (Choi Dae-hoon) was a married man with a young teen. When he wasn’t delivering flowers for his florist wife, he hung around with Chai-ni and Ro-bin acting superior. He thought he was smart. All three acted like idiots most of the time.

Kyung-hoon thought he knew what was causing the town to suffer. Chemicals from an old science lab. He reported his ideas to the city government regularly, complaining to a minor city clerk named Woon-jeong (Cha Eun-woo).

The three idiots and Woon-jeong became the superhero team. Here’s how.

Chae-ni convinced her two idiot friends to pretend to kidnap her and get money from her grandmother as ransom. She would give them money and travel with the rest.

Except in the middle of them sending a ransom demand to grandmother, Chae-ni died.

Yep, dead.

Because they were idiots, the two friends decided to dump Chae-ni in an illegal dump site. Their inept attempts to do that landed all three of them in a pool of something nasty that dripped from a drain that lead back to the aforementioned mad scientist’s lab.

Whatever was in the pool brought Chae-ni back to life with a perfect heart. It gave them all superpowers.

That was when the unremarkable city clerk Woon-jeong showed up. He had superpowers, too.

Woon-jeong was a product of the mad scientists experiments 20 years ago. The scientist had experimented on children, giving them various powers. Woon-jeong could do telekinesis. Other children from that lab were still around.

The mad scientist, Dr. Ha (Son Hyeon-ju) had just been released from prison and was back at work in the old lab. He wanted the perfect life-renewing heart in Chae-ni’s chest.

What could our three misfit idiots do as super heroes? As if coming back from the dead wasn’t enough, Chae-ni could teleport. Ro-bin had super strength. Kyung-hoon could stick to things like spider man. But none of them knew how to turn their new powers off or on. Woon-jeong reluctantly helped them figure it out.

Whew, it took a lot of paragraphs to describe the situation. There are 8 episodes in this series, and most of them are action packed. Dr. Ha and his superpowered minions work in the lab trying to get hold of Chae-ni’s wonder heart. The comedy team of Wonderfools try to save the whole town from the chemical poison created in the lab while keeping Chae-ni out of Dr. Ha’s clutches.

Dr. Ha’s loyal minions, children he formerly experimented with, worked for him now. They called him Father. One did mind control, one created hallucinations, and one was as strong at telekinesis as Woon-jeong. Many of the fight scenes in the series are the two telekinetic masters throwing cars and buildings and other heavy things all over the place.

Everything was well done in this series. The special effects looked good. The actors were excellent. There was a little romance, which you don’t often get in superhero stories. The series benefited from a huge cast and expensive looking sets.

If superheroes, physical comedy, and fantasy action appeal to you, I think you might like The Wonderfools. It’s streaming on Netflix. Here’s the trailer.