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Disaster Movie (2008)

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Reviews Counted:60

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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.

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 (ā 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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A woman a few rows in front of me at the preview chose to write 20 minutes worth of text messages, rather than watch the movie. Even though she was not paying, the price was clearly too high.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
10/03/08
Paul Byrnes
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald

If Judd Apatow is the Jesus of modern comedy, Seltzer and Friedberg are the Anti-Christ - and sadly just as prolific

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
09/11/08
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Can't somebody make Friedberg and Seltzer stop?

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment 2 Comments
09/10/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Pointlessly rancid and redundant...Hopefully, Disaster Movie will indeed vanish as quickly as a three-second burp at a chili-eating contest.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
09/08/08
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

leaves one with a feeling of failure -- and the knowledge that, come this spring, these idiots will more than likely be back

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
09/08/08
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
Filmcritic.com

Why challenge yourself when you can have your Juno stand-in end a fight by lactating on the "Sex and the City" girls? Nope, a better question is why did I subject myself to this movie?

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
09/08/08
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

I want to say thanks again and thanks for proving that dumb movies pretending to be comedy will not stand any longer...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
09/05/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

It's hard to put into words just how excruciatingly painful it is to watch Disaster Movie, but let's just say it will make you appreciate those dreadful experiences in your life like, say, going to the dentist or waiting in line at the DMV.

Full Review Source: Watertown Daily Times | comment Comment
09/05/08
Adam Tobias
Adam Tobias
Watertown Daily Times

Disaster Movie is not, as you might have guessed, a parody of disaster movies. But it is a disaster.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
09/05/08
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

I checked, The Opposite of Funny Movie and Awful Film were available for titles, but Disaster Movie works absolutely perfect.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
09/04/08
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

It's not the worst of the franchise, but it's dangerously close.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
09/03/08
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

Insert "of a" between the two title words and you have my opinion of this film

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment 2 Comments
09/03/08
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

Every time one of these Friedberg-Seltzer movies is released the sum total of human knowledge is reduced.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment 7 Comments
09/02/08
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Rushed into production with no better drape for its threadbare gags than Cloverfield, this carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment 2 Comments
09/02/08
Jim Ridley
Jim Ridley
Village Voice

Disaster Movie, the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/02/08
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/02/08
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Perhaps they'll eventually make one called Spoof Movie, which would brilliantly parody the genre by being consistently funny.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/02/08
Michael Ordoņa
Michael Ordoņa
Los Angeles Times
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None of it is amusing, so there's probably enough suicide-inducing material here to make a send-up of The Happening redundant.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
09/02/08
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

No one spoofed in the film -- yes, including Jessica Simpson -- is more worthy of derision than the people responsible for making it.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
09/02/08
Michael Hardy
Michael Hardy
Boston Globe

Since many of the targets (Cloverfield, Hancock, Kung Fu Panda) already have a cheeky self-consciousness, the comedy rarely seems more than a hasty patchwork of cheap-shot allusions.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 3 Comments
09/02/08
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
 
 
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