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.
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.
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
Reviews for Epic Movie
The most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year… if not your entire lifetime.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you start thinking that the Taco Bell pitchwoman is perhaps too good for the material, you know the script has some serious problems.
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