Irrelevant, never-funny references to everything from Juno to American Gladiators
Disaster Movie (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 1
Rotten:58
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.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout, language, drug references and comic violence.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:05-09-2008
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
Reviews for Disaster Movie
Disaster Movie is lazily written, insulting rubbish and it's unquestionably one of the worst films of the year. Avoid like your life depended on it.
Of Disaster Movie it is difficult to speak, or even think, articulately, a handicap that seems to have afflicted the film’s makers.
Personally, The Sneak would like to place Friedberg and Seltzer on a blazing upside-down boat which is about to be hit by a meteorite.
Not a comedy, more a medical affliction, Disaster Movie’s symptoms include apathy, regret and eventual despair.
Why, oh why, is the spoof franchise that began with Scary Movie still churning 'em out?
Like Hepatitis B, this is one of those movies you just hope will go away.
Surely even bovine American teenagers have to realise their intelligence is being insulted sooner or later.
The Zucker/Abrahams movies were genuinely funny, at least some of the time. But this?
It could be the first great mainstream art experiment. Or, perhaps, since the opening word of dialogue is “Shit!”, the jokes are mostly about it, and the characters are regularly covered in it, it is more likely that the movie itself is just, well . . .
The result is a series of extraneous, deplorably unfunny scenes and sketches stitched together in completely haphazard fashion.
Puerile beyond belief and a possible hazard to brain cells, the only thing this offensive dross gets right is the title.
By the time the disco-dancing, man-eating chipmunks turned up, my mind had turned to the weekend.
The "jokes" are limp and pathetic or stillborn, timing is ignored, performances are a not-so-giddy mug-fest. Audiences are left wondering when the freshman cast is going to learn the rudiments of performing.
A dumb, dumb film, to be sure, but also undeniably funny in more spots than a right-thinking, mature adult person feels comfortable admitting.
Honestly, if the makers of this ever got serious about making web-based comedy, I reckon that they would absolutely rock it.
Since they have so little material to work with in the first place, Friedberg and Seltzer flog each joke well beyond its limits.
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