Today there are so many movies that simply take cracks at other movies and compile them into what they call a full length feature film... In my opinion many of these should just be straight to DVD or not even created at all.
Last night I watched Not Another Teen Movie which was one of the original of these spoof-like movies... It follows the stories of Never Been Kissed, Ten Things I Hate About You, Varsity Blues, She's All That, Cruel Intentions etc. I'll admit I do think it's pretty funny and those are the movies that were huge hits while my generation were high school kids.
But the continuation of these spoofs just makes them worse and worse. Recently I saw Epic Movie, a movie that in it's preview vowed to be more epic than all the other spoofs out there. But I'm pretty sure the 45 minute nap that I took in the middle was more epic than the movie itself.
A comment on IMDB's page should have tipped me off... "a movie so funny you'll forget to laugh" and the fact that it received 2% rating at RottenTomatoes.com should have been a clear indicator... This movie is a grade A crap!
But since I don't like to just go along with the critics and what others tell me, I like to still watch movies for myself. What did I discover? Maybe in some cases everyone else is right.
Now don't get me wrong, I love South Park, Family Guy and some of the original spoof movies... But Epic Movie is just an epic disaster!
1 comment:
Spoofs, while occasionally amusing, are just the results of producers with no new ideas to give. That said, I have to say Scary Movie wasn't half bad.
As for South Park, I could never knock that!
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