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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 26 January, 2007 DVD Release : 22 May, 2007 |
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Epic Movie description By dint of the inexplicable popularity of their send-up of movie genres in the parody movies Scary Movie and Date Movie, writer/director duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer probably got an epic-sized bucket of cash for this hastily stitched pastiche of drive-by entertainment. There's no particular variety of movie they were sent to send up this time, unless big box-office grossers has now become a genre in and of itself. If so, Epic Movie may well qualify as part of that league itself. Very little expense has been spared to make so-called "comic" references to a slew of mostly recent blockbusters--The Chronicles of Narnia, Borat, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the X-Men and Harry Potter series, Superman Returns, Nacho Libre, and The Da Vinci Code to name a few--and it's assumed we've seen them all. In a goofy thread of a story about four orphans plucked from some of the above, battle must be done through various bastardized plots from same so that a prophecy can be fulfilled and they can assume their rightful place as rulers of a sacred land. Lots of crotch kicks, fart, urine, and vomit jokes speed by as we pass through Willie Wonka's factory and a magical wardrobe with an unusually interesting assortment of look-alikes and name actors caught up in the gag mix (some of it legitimately funny). Darrell Hammond, Crispin Glover, David Carradine, Kevin McDonald, Carmen Electra, Kal Penn put on game (and sometimes gamy) faces, and it's definitely a hoot to watch comedy improv alums Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge as Aslo the Lion and the White Bitch do battle in a Narnian good vs. evil character smackdown. As lame as you already expect a movie like this to be, anything that can throw together an homage to C.S. Lewis alongside MTV's Punk'd in less than 90 minutes can't be all bad. --Ted Fry Epic Movie Extras
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| Not very good at all. I watched this movie before reading the reviews about it to keep an open mind. Some spoof movies are so laden with bad jokes that they have some sort of 'secondary humour' to them, laughing at how bad the jokes or skits are, for example, Silence of the Hams or Mafia! However, Epic Movie is just so bad and embarrasingly unfunny that there is no value to it all.
Most spoof movies rattle off jokes one after the other, so some jokes will inevitably hit their target whilst others grumble lamely by, however, Epic Movie's 'jokes' die on their feet. Part of the problem is that some of the skits are not 'spoofs' per se, but mere replicas of funnier movies, such as Borat. They are not 'spoofing' Borat, they are merely replicating Borat's funnier moments - Borat in his lime green man-thong. You get the impression that the makers tried to cash in quick on blockbuster movies so that Epic Movie strikes a chord quickly before people feel the jokes are dated or stale. In doing so they had chosen the money over quality. And, maybe it is not this movie that only sucks. In fact, the only film of any quality in the whole series is the original, Scary Movie, and the movies in the series have declined in quality per release. Avoid it and watch the real films 'spoofed' instead. The real The Da Vinci Code, sober and serious as it is, is like Something About Mary compared to Epic Movie. |
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