The parody is not a bad genre, as the early Zucker films showed us. It's just been put in the control of bad filmmakers.
Epic Movie (2007)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:1
Rotten:59
Average Rating:2.3/10
Consensus: A crude comedy with nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $39,666,075
Synopsis: From Jason Friedberg and Aaron Setzer (DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE) comes this everything-in-the-kitchen-sink, blender-set-to-grind comedy, which pokes fun at big crowd-pleasers like WILLIE WONKA AND... From Jason Friedberg and Aaron Setzer (DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE) comes this everything-in-the-kitchen-sink, blender-set-to-grind comedy, which pokes fun at big crowd-pleasers like WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, SNAKES ON A PLANE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, X-MEN, NACHO LIBRE, and THE DA VINCI CODE, among others. The loose plot involves a gang of teen orphans (including Jayma Mays and Faune A. Chambers) whose trip inside Wonka's candy factory leads them to a Narnia-style wardrobe adventure. Jennifer Coolidge is the evil White Bitch they have to tangle with in this new land, and Fred Willard plays Aslo, the lion. Scene-stealing Crispin Glover plays the Wonka-be, David Carradine breakdances, and the vivacious Carmen Elektra morphs enticingly in X-MEN-style blue body paint. A bevy of eerie look-alikes pose as Paris Hilton, Anna Paquin, Samuel Jackson, and P Diddy, among others. Of course there's raunch a-plenty with humor both scatological and shot-to-the-crotch-ish, to keep the MTV generation of all ages amused. The jokes come so fast that no one need worry if a gag here falls flat: another one is right behind to jump on its back. Best of all, the directors keep a tight ship on the bad language, as befits the PG-13 rating. [More]
Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard
Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Jim Piddock, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Carmen Electra, David Carradine, Kevin McDonald, George Alvarez
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Paul Schiff
Composer: Ed Shearmur
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Reviews for Epic Movie
Friedberg and Seltzer are nothing if not intrepid and they jump right into his Willy Wonka and his Captain Jack Sparrow, landing with such a leaden thud that they should be nursing their wounds for the rest of their lives.
Thankfully, at 90 minutes, Epic Movie is anything but epic. Unfortunately, there is little else to be thankful for in Friedman and Seltzer's latest and most meagre lampoon.
It plays out like an overlong Comedy Central skit lurching for the next laugh without any remorse for the gross misfires in between.
Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme.
just a pastiche of pop culture crap that's formed into a monstrous bastard of unfunny physical comedy, awful acting, and jokes that are outright flat on delivery...
This one is a typical time-waster for teenagers or others with disposable income and underdeveloped taste.
This movie is like a sneeze of bad jokes splattering its germs into the air we all breathe.
There's very little that's Epic about Epic Movie. While the film has plenty of fun, it's little more than a late-night comic sketch stretched to feature length.
Desperately unamusing comedy that lurches clumsily from one tedious spoof to the next, under the mistaken impression that just referencing a film is enough to get laughs.
The most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year… if not your entire lifetime.
Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.
Friedberg and Seltzer's most staggering achievement is rendering "Epic Movie" free from laughs.
The gutter-brow auteurs who helped write the first Scary Movie and created Date Movie milk their lame sketch-comedy minds for yet another punishingly uninspired skewering of Hollywood hits.
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