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Epic Movie

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Epic Movie (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 56

Fresh: 1

Rotten:55

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

Theatrical Release: 2007

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 THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY,... 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, 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

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DVD Info

 
 
 
 
Release:

Mar 4, 2008

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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Dolby Digital Surround - French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Alternate Ending
  • Audio Commentary - Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer - Directors
  • Behind the Scenes - "Making the Video: Pirate Rap"
  • Featurettes - 1. "How Gratuitous"
  • 2. "Everyone Loves Beaver" - Epic Hook Ups
  • Outtakes - Gag Reel

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Reviews for Epic Movie

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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
01/26/07
Sydney Morning Herald
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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.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/20/07
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sucks

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment 1 Comment
04/24/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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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...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
01/22/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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This one is a typical time-waster for teenagers or others with disposable income and underdeveloped taste.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
09/22/07
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
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This movie is like a sneeze of bad jokes splattering its germs into the air we all breathe.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
07/10/07
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
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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.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
07/03/07
Wesley Lovell
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Go rent Blazing Saddles instead.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/25/07
Scott Collura
IGN Movies
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...juvenile at best and flat-out lame at worst...

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06/14/07
David Nusair
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click to read review (though I have no idea why you'd want to)

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04/18/07
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
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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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
02/22/07
Matthew Turner
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Epic in its crapness.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment 1 Comment
02/17/07
Empire Magazine
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The most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year… if not your entire lifetime.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
02/17/07
Jamie Russell
BBC
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Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
02/13/07
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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...another perfect storm of not funny.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
02/11/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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Friedberg and Seltzer's most staggering achievement is rendering "Epic Movie" free from laughs.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/11/07
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com
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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.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
02/10/07
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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Friedberg and Seltzer are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, conjuring none of the adolescent brilliance of Airplane! or even the good-natured irony of 2001's Not Another Teen Movie.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
02/08/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
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When you start thinking that the Taco Bell pitchwoman is perhaps too good for the material, you know the script has some serious problems.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
02/06/07
Brian Tallerico
UGO
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