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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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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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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

Thankfully, the crude, scatological parody Epic Movie, unlike the movies it sends up, is short.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/27/07
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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The real problem with Epic Movie is that while it does a decent job imitating films, it never bothers to make fun of or have fun with them.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
01/30/07
Alex Chun
Alex Chun
Los Angeles Times
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On January 26th, I have witnessed what is assured to be the worst film I will behold all year.

Full Review Source: OhmyNews.com | comment Comment
01/26/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
OhmyNews.com

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

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

...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

What was the last studio picture this bad? Maybe 2002's The Adventures of Pluto Nash. I've seen more talent in my cat's last dump.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment 5 Comments
01/26/07
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

How can you make fun of such self-aware subjects as Borat or Johnny Depp's winkingly fey Jack Sparrow? Who hasn't already noticed Tom Hanks' bad Da Vinci Code hair? And really, is there anything left to say about Samuel L. Jackson and those snakes?

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/30/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

It could be worse, but that's not saying much.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment 1 Comment
02/03/07
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

What makes Epic Movie such an unpleasant endurance test isn't its rampant stupidity or slavish reliance on crude humor--it's the sheer laziness on display throughout.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/29/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

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

Woefully unimaginative, obvious and numbing...Epic Movie is lazy and toothless in its inability to satirize material that doesn't need the hysterical microscope.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
01/30/07
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

One of those throw-everything-at-the-screen-and-see-if-anything-sticks movies...In this case, nothing does...All terrible--puerile, vulgar and unfunny.

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01/26/07
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

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

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

The cinematic equivalent of a tapeworm, this delivers few laughs beyond the initial chuckles of recognition.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/30/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

The film never becomes anything of its own, however; it merely jumps from spoof to spoof, often with tenuous transitions.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
01/30/07
Jake Coyle
Jake Coyle
Associated Press
 
 
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