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Epic Movie

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Epic Movie (2007)

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Reviews Counted:60

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Rotten:59

Average Rating:2.3/10

Consensus: A crude comedy with nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes.

Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:09-02-2007

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

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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
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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
Jamie Russell
BBC
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It plays out like an overlong Comedy Central skit lurching for the next laugh without any remorse for the gross misfires in between.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Tom Meek
Tom Meek
Boston Phoenix

Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Hollywood.com

sucks

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

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.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

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.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
01/15/08
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

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
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

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
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

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
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

Go rent Blazing Saddles instead.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/25/07
Scott Collura
Scott Collura
IGN Movies

...juvenile at best and flat-out lame at worst...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
06/14/07
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

click to read review (though I have no idea why you'd want to)

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
04/18/07
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

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
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

...another perfect storm of not funny.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
02/11/07
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

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
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle

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
Brian Tallerico
UGO
 
 
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