+ I’ve tried to
ascertain the appeal of these parody pastiches. It’s not like I sat there
hearing gales of laughter in the theater, and, just like Date Movie,
this will sink like a stone after the first weekend, lacking good word of
mouth. However, the format supplies a certain feeling of familiarity, the sort
that makes people watch reruns of crappy shows like The Brady Bunch.
These movies are like instant reruns, and all the slapstick scenes make for
grabby TV commercials. For the record, my tally was three smiles, and one mild
laugh. (I’m too embarrassed to say which scene.) The real artists in this movie
are the costume and set designers who re-create all those superior blockbusters
on the cheap, plus the guy (Darrell Hammond) who pretends to be Johnny Depp in Pirates
of the Caribbean. He’s pretty convincing. (Depp’s also spoofed in his Willy
Wonka role, by Crispin Glover.) This is a tiny bit better than Date Movie
for not being as mean-spirited, though it may be even less funny.
- A lengthy
description of this movie’s flaws is unwarranted. They boil down to
unimaginative, bad writing. You can have a bit of fun guessing how long it will
be until someone gets randomly hit or falls, when the fart and vomit jokes will
arrive, and where Friedberg and Seltzer will use up the one “fuck” allowed in a
PG-13 movie. The basic approach is to take a scene from another movie and have
everybody act silly. There are four main characters who are too fake to care
about, one of whom is the same as Anna Faris’s Cindy in Scary Movie. Her
shtick is to repeat everything said by the other female lead. Every so
often the movie turns into a rap video featuring the sort of PG-13 smutty humor
calculated to ferociously titillate eight-grade boys, just like the way Depp’s Pirates
character is called “Jack Swallows.” Tee hee.
= *1/2 Don’t see
this. Tell your friends not to see this. These people must be stopped.
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