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Epic Movie (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 1  Rotten:55 Average Rating: 2.3/10
 
Consensus: Has nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes. A crude comedy with nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes. more
 
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
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 THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, SNAKES ON A PLANE, PIRATES OF THE... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Jim Piddock

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Paul Schiff
Composer: Ed Shearmur

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 3, 2008

[DVD Details]

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

Interactive Features:

  • Easter Eggs
  • Menus

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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.

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02/22/07 03:18 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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Epic in its crapness.

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02/17/07 07:50 AM
Empire Magazine
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The most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year… if not your entire lifetime.

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02/17/07 07:50 AM
Jamie Russell
BBC
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sucks

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04/24/08 12:10 PM
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is
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Click to read the article

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01/15/08 03:15 AM
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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This one is a typical time-waster for teenagers or others with disposable income and underdeveloped taste.

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09/22/07 06:16 AM
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.

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07/10/07 05:08 AM
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.

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07/03/07 07:45 AM
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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Go rent Blazing Saddles instead.

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06/25/07 01:27 PM
Scott Collura
IGN Movies
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...juvenile at best and flat-out lame at worst...

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06/14/07 09:01 PM
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
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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 11:15 AM
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
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Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.

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02/13/07 08:24 AM
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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...another perfect storm of not funny.

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

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02/11/07 09:57 AM
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.

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02/10/07 05:14 AM
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.

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02/08/07 02:36 PM
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.

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02/06/07 01:36 PM
Brian Tallerico
UGO
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It is just too bad that the film isn't called Miniscule Movie because that is a better description of this epic-less piece of garbage.

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02/06/07 03:16 AM
Zack Haddad
Film Threat
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Funnier than Date Movie, not as funny as Scary Movie 4. (Is) a "free" page on MySpace the new indicator that (a film is) pretty cheap all around?

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02/03/07 11:46 AM
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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It could be worse, but that's not saying much.

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02/03/07 05:18 AM
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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