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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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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.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
02/06/07
Zack Haddad
Zack Haddad
Film Threat

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?

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
02/03/07
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

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

Epic Movie is a comedy that is so spectacularly bad in so many ways that it's almost awe-inspiring -- at every point in the film, every creative choice seems to have been made for precisely the wrong reason.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
02/03/07
Jim Hemphill
Jim Hemphill
Reel.com

A laugh-deprived misadventure.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
02/02/07
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Despite all the scatological high jinks on display, most of the satire is affectionate rather than merciless.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 56 Comments
01/31/07
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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

The makers of Epic Movie have just discovered the existence of urine, vomit and pimples, and declared them hilarious.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
01/30/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

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

Everything you loved about the past couple of years' blockbusters, only much less entertaining and with a lot more urination.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
01/30/07
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
E! Online

An amateur-hour game of Spot That Reference, intended for people who crack up simply at the mention of anything topical.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
01/30/07
Jim Ridley
Jim Ridley
L.A. Weekly

Epic Movie strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of humor into question.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
01/30/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

The latest spoof from knucklehead screenwriting team and first-time directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
01/30/07
Wyatt Ossa
Wyatt Ossa
Boxoffice Magazine

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

You know a movie parody is in trouble when you can't quite figure out the frame of reference for the parody.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
01/30/07
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

I've always loved parody. It's too bad that garbage like this is what passes for it these days.

Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
01/30/07
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

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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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

What you miss most is the shamelessness and wit that Anna Faris and Regina Hall have brought to four installments of Scary Movie. In lieu of those two, there are exploding pimples, a tongue frozen on a pole, and industrial-strength projectile.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
01/30/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer must be stopped. For the last 10 years, this filmmaking team has created a series of spoof movies so feeble, shoddy and unfunny that they may be part of a diabolical, Manchurian Candidate-like plot.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
01/30/07
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail
 
 
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