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Plenty of gags fall flat, but writer-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer... have tapped the vein more effectively than their norm, with enjoyable details and on-the-mark senseless brutality.
With Vampires Suck, the film is just as guilty as the vampires.
The Twilight Saga, with its operatic gloom and straight-faced fantasy, is undoubtedly ripe for a smart, good-natured ribbing. This isn't it.
Perhaps the filmmakers deserve credit for their one show of restraint: No jokes in this movie have been made at the expense of Justin Bieber.
Parodies can be hilarious. This one sucks.
There are few things worse than watching a comedy flatline for over an hour, tossing its "funny parts" into a vacuum of uncomfortable silence.
A banal mess that sacrifices anything resembling satire for a series of smutty jokes.
Only Friedberg and Seltzer could film this dross with the belief they are making even a half-decent comedy.
Casting two lookalikes and coaching your young actors to mimic the trio from 'Twilight' isn't enough to make for a great parody.
There was a time when, for a certain generation, the release of a new Naked Gun or Hot Shots movie would be cause for real excitement.
A movie that will have you pining to watch the real Twilight films. Yes, it's that bad.
A witless, puerile spoof of the Twilight movies.
Vampires Suck misses its targets in spectacular fashion thanks to the directors' usual approach of simply recreating scenes from the original movies without any real understanding of what to satirise or even how to go about it.
It's not quite as bad as Friedberg and Seltzer's usual output, but only in the way that measles is better than mumps.
They don't suck as much as lame-brain parodists Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
It's almost fascinatingly awful, nailing the moony tedium of its target franchise with something close to suicidal exactitude.
The last time I heard a film audience in such a state of silence was during Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light.
The erratic, barely humorous dialogue here is even more ghastly than your average spoof, while Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's direction is patchy, to say the least.
It's marginally sharper than the likes of Meet The Spartans -- yes, that good -- but essentially as tatty as a porn parody, without all the best bits.
Every time we see a new Friedberg/Seltzer film we hope maybe they've learned something and put their skills to more creative use. But no, instead we're once again astounded that anyone gives them money to make these unfunny rehashes.
A Twilight pastiche with all the wit you'd expect from the makers of Scary Movie and Meet The Spartans.
A few broader references might have made this punishing one-note trawl through the eminently spoofable tween-vamp saga slightly more watchable.
The Twilight Saga is an obvious target for parody, but this crude and unfunny movie makes a hash of it.
It seems to have brought out the best (well, better) in serial spoof merchants Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who have never been so focussed in their mickey-taking mash-ups.
The specific target of the Twilight movies gives Vampires Suck a little more structure than these films normally have, but this is still a painfully unfunny comedy...
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