Despite all the scatological high jinks on display, most of the satire is affectionate rather than merciless.
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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:2007
Box Office: $39,666,075
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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Reviews for Epic Movie
Thankfully, the crude, scatological parody Epic Movie, unlike the movies it sends up, is short.
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.
On January 26th, I have witnessed what is assured to be the worst film I will behold all year.
When you start thinking that the Taco Bell pitchwoman is perhaps too good for the material, you know the script has some serious problems.
Friedberg and Seltzer's most staggering achievement is rendering "Epic Movie" free from laughs.
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.
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?
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.
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...
Woefully unimaginative, obvious and numbing...Epic Movie is lazy and toothless in its inability to satirize material that doesn't need the hysterical microscope.
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.
Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme.
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.
The cinematic equivalent of a tapeworm, this delivers few laughs beyond the initial chuckles of recognition.
The film never becomes anything of its own, however; it merely jumps from spoof to spoof, often with tenuous transitions.
Bad taste and worse jokes abound. Epic Movie's humor isn't tired; it's comatose.
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