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Disaster Movie (2008)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:1

Rotten:59

Average Rating:1.8/10

Consensus: Returning to their seemingly bottomless well of flatulence humor, racial stereotypes, and stale pop culture gags, Friedberg and Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst Movie yet.

Australian Rating: M [See Full Rating] Coarse language, crude humour and violence

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Australian Theatrical Release:
Oct 2, 2008 Wide

US Box Office: $14,174,654

Synopsis: Jason Friedberg and Adam Seltzer--the two guys who did EPIC MOVIE, DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE, and MEET THE SPARTANS--bring you DISASTER MOVIE, a compendium of gross-out gags and reference-check... Jason Friedberg and Adam Seltzer--the two guys who did EPIC MOVIE, DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE, and MEET THE SPARTANS--bring you DISASTER MOVIE, a compendium of gross-out gags and reference-check quasi-satire bits aping THE INCREDIBLE HULK, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, JUMPER, ENCHANTED, DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN, SEX AND THE CITY, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, and so on. The story is structured via CLOVERFIELD with Will (Matt Lanter), after having a 10,000 B.C.-style dream involving an Amy Winehouse look-a-like (Nicole Parker), races against time to rescue his girlfriend (Vanessa Minnillo) who is trapped in a museum with references to TWISTER; meanwhile kids who look like the teens from SUPERBAD try and score booze. What? Along for the ride are a JUNO-esque slacker girl (Crista Flanagan) and Gary "G-Thang" Johnson; there are take-offs of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, and celebrity impersonations of Dr. Phil, Michael Jackson, the real Kim Kardashian, and the ubiquitous Carmen Electra; lots of dances and fights and dance/fights (à la STEP UP and STEP UP 2 THE STREETS). The comedy talent here is mostly imported from MAD TV, particularly Parker, who also does ENCHANTED and a mean Jessica Simpson. The recipe here, as before, is to cram in as many pop-culture references as possible, douse liberally with gross bodily fluids, and serve face forward. In other words, it's the perfect film for loud shouts and inappropriate laughter with a roomful of one's most off-color cohorts. [More]

Starring: Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra

Starring: Matt Lanter, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Nicole Parker, Gary "G-Thang" Johnson, Crista Flanagan, Ike Barinholtz, Tad Hilgenbrink

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Peter Safran
Composer: Christopher Lennertz
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Wrong!!!

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment 5 Comments
09/02/08
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

Crude, dumb spoof isn't worth your time or money.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
09/01/08
Sandie Angulo Chen
Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media

Cobbled together with plotlines, characters, catchphrases and other assorted gimmicks still lodged in the short-term memory cavities of our pop cultural consciousness.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/31/08
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

Consider the word 'putrid.' If I had an online personal dictionary, the films of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer would link to my definition of that word.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 1 Comment
08/31/08
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Having to watch and review 'Disaster Movie' must be payback for the juvenile pranks I took part in as a teenager.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
08/30/08
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Embarrassment. It's a feeling you should get used to, Freidberg and Seltzer. May you never befoul another cinema with your grotesque comic abortions.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment 9 Comments
08/29/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
Film.com

It's quite frankly stultifying that Friedberg are Seltzer are ever let anywhere near a studio boardroom after having defecated out their previous movies, much less this one.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
08/29/08
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

Yet another entry in the Jason Friedberg-Aaron Seltzer series of movie spoofs, this scattershot collection lame gags is the definition of disposable entertainment.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/29/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

No one expects sophisticated wit from this type of movie, but would it be too much to ask for more than a chuckle every 10 minutes?

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment 4 Comments
08/29/08
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Hollywood Reporter

Seldom has a pic been more appropriately titled than Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce from the unfortunately prolific writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment 6 Comments
08/29/08
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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I half expected to see the spoof-making team in direct address, explaining the supremacy of the tentpole uber-alice, perhaps while backed by Emperor Palpatine.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/29/08
Sara Schieron
Sara Schieron
Boxoffice Magazine

Movie metaphor junkies be on high alert, for a horny Dr. Phil, Michael Jackson hiding out in a car trunk with a little boy and a pet chimp for good measure, and a bad imitation Juno blasting lactating breast milk as a deadly weapon.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
08/29/08
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

It's sad when a movie is so bad, it becomes the subject of late-night debates on whether it's better or worse than Uwe Boll's Postal.

Full Review Source: Film School Rejects | comment 4 Comments
08/29/08
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film School Rejects

As depressing and empty a cinematic experience as any other picture this year or last (or maybe the whole decade). To label it as simply unfunny or vacuous or ugly or boring would be a compliment.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment 1 Comment
08/29/08
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

So ugly, unpleasant and devoid of laughs that the notion of releasing a film with such a title on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is actually one of the least offensive things about it.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 35 Comments
08/29/08
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

Like the bastard child of Best Week Ever and the mud that runs off of football players' cleats after a rainy game, this isn't a movie you see. It's one you survive.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
08/29/08
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

It's too easy to say Disaster Movie deserves its title, but why put more effort into trashing it than the filmmakers did into writing it?

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment 2 Comments
08/29/08
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
AV Club

Here's what they got right: The name of the movie. Disaster, indeed.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment 3 Comments
08/29/08
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Come on, pedophilia is funny and a Michael Jackson joke is never not timely, right? Wrong. It's not timely or funny.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment 2 Comments
08/28/08
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

I'm not sure if Disaster is the worst movie the boys have churned out, but, at this point, that's like asking if a bullet hurts more than a knife.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment 10 Comments
08/28/08
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com
 
 
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