Average Rating: 2.3/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 62
A crude comedy with nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes.
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 14
A crude comedy with nothing new or insightful to say about the subjects it satirizes.
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Scary Movie screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer join forces to parody the "biggest" movies ever to hit the silver screen in this comedy that gives such popular box-office hits as Pirates of the Caribbean and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe the same treatment that Scary Movie gave to the slasher subgenre. A virtual smorgasbord of spoof, Epic Movie tells the tale of four fully grown orphans: one the victim of snakes that attacked her plane, another raised by
PG-13, 1 hr. 25 min.
Jan 26, 2007 Wide
May 22, 2007
$39.7M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (63) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (66) | DVD (21)
Despite all the scatological high jinks on display, most of the satire is affectionate rather than merciless.
The makers of Epic Movie have just discovered the existence of urine, vomit and pimples, and declared them hilarious.
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?
The film never becomes anything of its own, however; it merely jumps from spoof to spoof, often with tenuous transitions.
You know a movie parody is in trouble when you can't quite figure out the frame of reference for the parody.
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.
Raunchy blockbuster spoof is over the top, dumb.
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.
sucks
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.
Go rent Blazing Saddles instead.
...juvenile at best and flat-out lame at worst...
Can a picture really be considered a parody if it is a bottom-feeder which merely parrots rather than satirizes its source material?
Given that these features only capitulate the endless stupidity of American audiences, it gets one star.
Does Fred Willard really need a job this bad? Can't Christopher Guest and Jay Leno keep him up to date on his car payments and alimony? ...Please?
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A comedy is supposed to make you laugh right? I mean, isn't that the basic criteria? Well, this tragic piece of garbage failed to even present a single good joke. It's so lame, stupid and badly timed that it almost put my little brother to tears. The only thing that made it slightly watchable was the wide range of
June 24, 2007Super Reviewer
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