Writer-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer seem to think a half-baked imitation of the original constitutes instant comic gold.
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01/30/07
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Reviews for Epic Movie
Top CriticSatire points up and emphasizes truths that have gone unnoticed, punctures pretension and tweaks the self-important. Audiences laugh at the unexpected revelation of truth. Epic Movie does none of that.
01/30/07
Unfortunately, this film fell flat and its filmmakers seem to have lost the ability to translate the humor in a satirical way.
01/29/07
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.
01/29/07
Look what happens without the Wayans brothers' pens.
01/29/07
Can a picture really be considered a parody if it merely parrots rather than satirizes its source material?
01/29/07
At times there is no visible difference between this and the fictitious film ***, the two-hour, single-take, Academy Award-winning shot of a flatulent gluteus maximus from Mike Judge's Idiocracy.
01/27/07
Thankfully, the crude, scatological parody Epic Movie, unlike the movies it sends up, is short.
01/27/07
Top CriticBad taste and worse jokes abound. Epic Movie's humor isn't tired; it's comatose.
01/27/07
Extravagantly [expends] elaborate sets, special-effects, music, costumes and actor look-alikes for the sake of a few lame gags and a legion of crotch-kicks.
01/27/07
Top CriticWhat 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.
01/26/07
On January 26th, I have witnessed what is assured to be the worst film I will behold all year.
01/26/07
Because nothing in the universe is funnier than watching Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka break out into hip-hop gyrations.
01/26/07
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.
01/26/07
too simple, too vulgar and too obvious to be Funny Movie. It's not even Chuckle Movie or Giggle Movie. It's in your face, with most humor centered around taking characters you recognize and just making them dumber
01/26/07
None of it makes much sense and none of its funny, and to see such truly talented performers like Coolidge, Willard and Kid-in-the-Hall Kevin McDonald, who appears briefly as a seedy, middle-aged Harry Potter, is merely depressing.
01/26/07
Pity [the producers] couldn't find anything funny to do once they'd built the sets, and found dead ringers for Anna Paquin, Paris Hilton, P. Diddy and Jack Black.
01/26/07
Friedberg and Seltzer are nothing if not intrepid and they jump right into his Willy Wonka and his Captain Jack Sparrow, landing with such a leaden thud that they should be nursing their wounds for the rest of their lives.
01/26/07
In this latest and tiredest Friedman/Seltzer puff piece the law of diminishing returns persists.
01/25/07
Thankfully, at 90 minutes, Epic Movie is anything but epic. Unfortunately, there is little else to be thankful for in Friedman and Seltzer's latest and most meagre lampoon.
01/20/07
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