This review was originally posted in August 2010, and is a recut version that runs 3m shorter than the original, with numerous cuts to film clips, remove some jokes I don't feel worked, and tighten up the pacing. If the review doesn't look great, there is a reason for that: my friend Chris edited this review, and I don't have the final master file for it, I only have the heavily compressed FLV file that I uploaded to Blip (you got better quality doing it that way than them doing the conversion for you). As such, in order to re-edit this, I had to convert that back into an MP4 file to edit that, so this is essentially a fourth generation file, although I have nevertheless upscaled it to HD to preserve what quality there is. I've also applied noise reduction throughout the review to reduce tape and camera noise. That's part of the reason this heavily-requested review has been away for so long. This re-post is to coincide with Night School, as Kevin Hart is in this in a prominent uncredited role that he'd likely not want to be reminded of. Have fun!
Film Brain In your older reviews, why was your censorship inconsistent? Sometimes you censored “fuck,” other times you didn’t. Were they references to how inconsistent TV censorship is?
Exactly! How does one try to parody movies like Borat, which are meant to be comedies in the first place? You don't. BTW, Borat does politically incorrect humor much better than Seltzerberg ever will.
Dioji Woolf And while we are at it, the whole joke of surreal comedies is serious characters are living in a world operating by cartoon logic and they are unaware of that fact.
It's a shame really great TH-cam channels get copyright strikes for unfair reasons, yet these two idiots get to straight up rip off other properties with no apparent consequence.
The problem with these spoof movies are they're way too unfocused and throw in too many characters and scenes from movies that have nothing to do with the actual movie and are just there.
I remember being about 12 years old at secondary school and thinking this film looked like the funniest film ever made. I should also say I had awful taste back then.
Yeah, that whole "From 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie" thing... the other four writers never actually read Friedberg and Seltzer's script. The duo wrote an early draft, and were only credited for contractual reasons.
By contractual reasons it means "they did it mostly because coincidentally all of them had the same idea - making a parody of Scream - so thanks to WGA the producers blended Wayans, Buddy Johnson and Phil Beauman's script with another one Miramax had and Friedberg and Seltzer's draft"
Luis Mario Guerrero Sánchez Not true. He asked for a Higher Salary and creative control over his Character George McFly. Crispin went over the Studio Heads at Universal.
I've seen movies made back in the 1920s that have aged better than this movie from 11 years ago. The sad part about Epic movie in particular is there are a few jokes that could have worked, but they lack any context and most of them drag on way too long.
That's the thing that killed me whenever I watched Friedberg and Seltzer's films, there's moments of inspired insanity going on, but they just either overexplain or stay on a gag for way too long that it just ruins what few good moments these films had.
You know a movie is bad when the only funny jokes involve someone getting shot. Also, the "joke" where the girl was accidentally crushing David Caradinne's hand was stolen from Good Burger. (Uh, Dexter, you're squishing my pancreas)
Considering this movie was from 2006, the “weapon of mass destruction” could’ve been potentially and maybe even cleverly used to parody George Bush’s reasoning for us getting into a war with Iraq, but then I realize that would take more effort and thinking in a movie that lacks it.
This is why I don't take spoof movies seriously anymore. After the likes of Scary Movie (which I admittedly liked), the filmmakers seem to have gotten lazy with the likes of Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, and especially this movie.
That's not to say there are good parody movies, especially with the likes Spaceballs and The Lego Batman Movie (as well as the movies you've mentioned) being great examples of this. However, a lot of these Seltzerman/Friedberg movies give spoof flicks a bad name.
People like to blame Seltzerberg for the demise of the genre, but the truth is, it was already at death's door in the late 90s - just check out Leslie Nielsen's filmography post-1994 if you don't believe me.. The Scary Movie series managed to temporarily revive it, but then these two clowns came along and buried it once and for all.
"Not Another Teen Movie" is actually decent and the first Scary Movie I'll admit to enjoying but the spoof is a genre that has lost its way since the 70s and 80s era of greatness.
usually robot chicken actually works in the references for actual timing jokes instead of "hey look, it's this thing from pop culture! ARE WE FUNNY YET?!?!!!?!!!!!!
I'm just happy that these kinds of spoof movies seem to be dying out now, guess the kind of audience they were aiming for grew up and moved on If I want genuinely funny and clever lowest common denominator parodies, I'll just watch Robot Chicken or Spitting Image
I think they actually stole the joke with the White Witch show her breasts from a Robot Chicken Sketch. The amount of stuff they stole is mind boggling!
@@HeadphonesUK ha I said that before I got to the part where he mentioned those 2 movie being in the same class. Even though they're not. FGF is in a class all it's own.
I work at an oil rig in Mexico. After 14 days of labor me and my colleagues were aboard the ship that was taking us to dry land. This movie was shown during the trip and for the first time ever the workers asked the captain to turn the movie off or put another one.Even they couldn't endure this travesty. And I'm talking about people who find funny and enjoy the Adam Sandler movies.
It seems that Hollywood is no longer funding anymore Friedberg/Seltzer films. One of their future projects, *_Who the F#@K Took My Daughter?,_* which was to be a _Taken_ parody, hasn't been heard about for four years, and another, a _Star Wars_ parody titled *_Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue,_* was said to film in fall 2017 but nothing's come about it either. Has Hollywood finally given up on those two guys?
I remember hearing years ago (about 2010-2011 if I remember correctly) news was circulating around that they were going to make an Avatar spoof called The Biggest Movie of All Time in 3D, but it never got produced.
Oh yea, I remember hearing of that one, too. It seems that that film is also never going to ever see the light of day, either, and thank god too, cause who would want to pay to see what will predictably be yet another shitty parody from those guys, especially in *_3D?_*
@@DemonBoy3223 And all their recent shit post Vampires Suck was released direct to video. Like, are those selling so poorly that their recent projects are falling by the wayside. Either people have wised up or just don't care. It's most likely both.
They're making a Taken parody? I'm pretty sure Taken has already had a spoof movie called Tooken (yes, really) and the sequels basically made the franchise into a joke anyway.
Oh trust me friend, I've seen both of these trainwrecks. Two of the worst films ever made. But then again if you wanted to have fun and watch them baked just to laugh at how bad they are then I guess they have that going for them
@@jakegibbard It takes everything bad about Epic Movie and cranks it to 11. There is barely a plot, the references are all over the place and make even less sense than the ones in Epic Movie, the jokes drag on for way too long (the Head-On headache creme ad is a prime example of this), and there are far too many musical/dance numbers.
And what's actually funny about the Charlie & The Chocalate Factory parody is that Crispin Glover eventually appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp, who played Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. And it was not the first time that they appeared in the same movie, as they both appeared in Lasse Hallstrom's What Eating Gilbert Grape 17 years earlier. Also that Superman Returns actually had Kal Penn as one of Lex Luthor's minions, and that Hector Jimenez (who played Mr. Tumnus in this movie) actually appeared in Nacho Libre.
Early 2007 but your point still stands. I saw it in theaters (I was 16) and I remember it being one of the first movies I saw in a theater that was truly awful.
Lesson: when doing a parody or spoof make sure you research the thing you are parodying and don't overly it with stuff references even to the point of Blatant Plagarism or thinly veiled shallow parody
I just realized that the Willy Wonka torture bit was supposed to be a reference to that old fan theory that the Gene Wilder Wonka is a serial killer who uses human flesh for his candy...a reference that's rendered invalid since the Tim Burton movie they’re spoofing in particular AND the original book it was advertised as being closer to showed that the cast survived
9:50 Because it was funny in Airplane? Except it worked there to fit the madness of how everyone was reacting to the plane falling, this was just…Seltzerberg.
I watched this movie with my friends in middle school. We thought it seemed funny. in the commericals. When we left the theather, we then made a pact to never tell our parents what this movie even was. We were too terrified to let them know. The Wonka scene still haunts me to this day
Pretty sure this would make Roald Dahl roll over in his grave even more so than the adaptation by Tim Burton this THING was referencing. So I don't blame you and your friends one bit.
On the bright side, Seltzerberg's stock went way down after Vampires Suck. Their last few movies had limited releases and were certified box-office bombs, and despite announcing a few projects haven't actually released anything since 2015. Let's keep it that way.
We know Epic Movie is insufferable when Kevin Hart left himself uncredited, so he was definitely ashamed of ever participating. But Disaster Movie worsened the horrid qualities of Epic Movie and Date Movie combined. Remember that you shouldn't parody comedies, since your spoof movie is already a comedy hence the rules of humorous art in cinema.
Thing is, there is a lot about Epic Films as a genre that can be parodied, their typically gargantuan lengths, their similarly gargantuan casts, and plots that rarely feel like one narrative as much as they do TV miniseries.
4:23 is pretty much Cal Penn's reaction to the damage he did to his career. He's like please kill me. Kill me. Get me out of this irredeemable pile of horse crap.
And what's actually funny is that, considering the Superman Returns parody at 12:58, Superman Returns actually featured Kal Penn as one of Lex Luthor's minions.
10:37 Wait, so they parody Nacho Libre and yet still pay an actor from that movie to be in this? What?! That makes no sense whatsoever. Edit: I just realized that Kal Penn was in Superman Returns. That's two angering instances.
You can add a third because Jennifer Coolidge was in Click, which was a movie that Sophie Monk (who appeared in Date Movie with Coolidge, in the same YEAR to be precise) appeared in as well.
Seeing Kevin Hart in this hurts just as much as the fact that these asshole directors dragged amazing voice actress Brittney Karbowski in The Starving Games. Just...why?
4:33 I wouldn't expect Seltzerberg to make a Strong Bad reference. That would actually be funny. 9:44 Oh, and the old "open closet and a whole bunch of stuff falls out" gag. That goes back to radio shows from the 1930s. 11:02 In almost every episode of Cribs featuring a rapper's crib, the rapper has a Scarface poster in his home.
tbf, i think it would be funnier if there was a cribs parody where scarface posters are used as wallpaper and carpeting it only took me 5 seconds to think of that but y'know
It gets even worse in Meet The Spartans, where the actors keep turning to the camera and *EXPLAINING* what the "references" are. Even more so than they do here. Why not hold up a cardboard sign with "PLZ LAUGH NOW" written on it in crayon while you're at it?
GOOD GRIEF! Seems like Seltzer & Friedberg never saw The New Batman Adventures episode Mad Love. Because in that episode Joker said something I live by in regard to jokes. That line being "IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE! THERE IS NO JOKE!"
Something occurred to me - they could've used Aslan as it can't be copyrighted due to just being Turkish for lion, rendering whatever joke they're attempting even more nonsensical
I saw most of Epic Movie on TV once. The *only* jokes that me chuckle were the brief mention of White Castle (which I now see isn't funny) and when Tumnus got shot (until they made the joke go on for too long). I got so bored that I ended up devoting my attention to watching TH-cam videos on my dad's computer.
What happened in hindsight about Crispin Glover playing a Willy Wonka parody in a parody of Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is funnier than the parody, because Crispin Glover eventually appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton's Willy Wonka himself Johnny Depp (and not the first time they appeared in a movie together, with What's Eating Gilbert Grape 17 years earlier).
If you gave anyone with a brain cell this same basic premise and told them to write a script of their own with it, they'd cook up something way better than this. Online video reviewers, always proving that there are far worse things than the worst movie you've ever seen (at least "Addicted to Fresno," for as ABSOLUTELY VILE as it was, didn't lazily rehash plot points and jokes from other hotel-set movies, nor did it constantly point them out as if we weren't able to figure it out straight away).
16:12, No Jack-Diddly-Squat, Einstein. Its like the Film's trying to be Self-Aware at this point.........WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO BE SELF-AWARE AND EVEN IF YOU TRY TO BE SELF-AWARE, THE FILM WILL STILL BE BAD!!!
I think the Cribs gag was spoofing how everyone in 2005/2006 was obsessed with Scarface. There was Scarface junk everwhere. Also the bullet in the eye had context as it was spoofing the Superman Returns trailer where the bullet bounces off his eye
By "No context," Mathew meant that it was supposedly a flashback where this blonde orphan (whose wings were too small to fly and who attends an academy to learn how to control his powers) used to be a dark-haired adult (who could fly with no problem and who would go after criminals).
What part the Golden Tickets had in this slock? Bad and unfunny is one thing, but throwing away your plot, or what goes for plot in this thing is unforgivable.
2:53-2:57 - And yet they proudly plastered their logo in front of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, AVP: Requiem, Dragonball: Evolution, Fant4stic, A Good Day to Die Hard and every other of their cinematic blunders you can think of! So you mean to tell me that all of those shitstains were OK, yet this is the one that they were ashamed of?! No wonder Disney bought them out. Also, poor Jayma Mays. First this, then The Smurfs? What did she do to deserve this? 6:43 - Oh, trust me, I wish I was watching Shameless instead!
The Happening. X-Men Origins Wolverine. Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li. Yeah, they have no restraint! But THIS? This shit is too much. Even Lionsgate wouldn't let this garbage use their logo! Actually, I thought AVP: Requiem was slightly better than its predecessor, but Fox distributed that too...
Epic Movie 1/10 is way worse than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 4/10, AvP Requiem 4/10, Fant4stic 7/10 and A Good Day To Die Hard 4/10 I haven't seen Dragonball: Evolution but somehow I doubt that's as bad as this piece of cinematic drivel either.
I find these movies interesting because they’re practically a time capsule of 2006. Also I was gonna say this is the most shameful thing Kevin Heart has done, but then I saw Think Like A Man 2.
The worst part of the box-office returns of 'Epic Movie' is that they ensured the movie buried the much-superior 'Hot Fuzz' at the US box-office. Thank goodness for the home entertainment market.
"The much-superior 'Hot Fuzz'", huh? I doubt it, Jack Monaghan; both Edgar Wright AND Seltzerberg are equally insulting in terms of comedy (Seltzerberg, because of their use of gross-out humor and pop cultural references; and Edgar Wright, because of his use of flashy edits/transitions [which he CONSTANTLY mistakes for jokes] and... pop cultural references). There's no difference between Wright and Seltzerberg, in my view; both are con artists of the highest grade, and BOTH are utterly clueless about how comedy works (with the cluelessness, in both cases, bordering on comedic vandalism). It's just that, in this instance, one fraudster - or PAIR of fraudsters, to be specific - turned out to be more successful than the other. At day's end, however, Wright and Seltzerberg are still two sides of the same thalidomide idiot (like James Cameron and Michael Bay, or Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman), and those who don't notice this fact of nature will ALWAYS be comedically illiterate in my book. [NOTE: If I wanted to see a film that succeeded where "Hot Fuzz" failed, I'd simply put on "Pulp Fiction". At least with THAT film, I could make out the punchlines to SOME of the jokes therein {e.g., the "Gold Watch" scene featuring Christopher Walken; the punchline there was that Walken's character went into too much detail about how that watch was preserved... complete with a "hiding-it-up-the-ass" quip}.] [Opinion by Carl Schaeffer]
I feel this . i think him being black listed due to the back to the future drama has made it hard for him to get good roles despite that it seems like back to the future is the only time he didn't get along with the director and producers.
Also nice to see a relatable comment. The only reason why i clicked on this to see if anyone else was dissapointed to see him in this trash fire movie. I know it's sad of me..
Ok this has been annoying me for ages now. What is the music that Matt plays over his staring, annoyed face on two different points of the film? One is at 10:31
Epic Movie Was A Box Office Failure. Also At The Start The 20th CENTURY FOX Logo Wasn't Shown In The Actual Film Or On Any Promotional Material But I Saw A 20th CENTURY FOX Home Entertainment Logo On The Side Of The DVD.
Embarrassingly I'll admit when I was a kid I enjoyed both date movie and meet the Spartans and meet the Spartans in particular was always a guilty pleasure of mine for some unknown reason.
Has no one seriously brought the fact that this movie has incest in it? Several of the main characters ended up having a foursome with Fred Willard's character and then they find out they're siblings a few hours (in movie time) later. I honestly can't tell whether this is more of the director's warped psyche or evidence the film was made up as they went.
I remember when i did a reunion with a bunch of friends, we got some movies to watch and *THIS MOVIE ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THEM* the funny thing is i knew they wanted to see this one knowing that they liked the other ones and the 300 spoof as well and i kinda wanted to them to forgot about it since i just didnt wanted to watch this one. Thing is i ended up watching it not once, not twice, not three times but like 7 times because they liked it so goddamn much that every now or then they will pop this sucker in and i had to sit throught this torture without even having a choice to not watch it, and im not joking they *LOVED* the jokes in this movie, things like every single harry potter character dying because why not? the random star wars references that doesnt make sense, that god awful Pirates of the Caribeean rap, and the borat scenes, also whenever tits or farts or something "shit" related joke come up they laughed their asses off, call me a pesimistic or too nip picky and that i dont know how to take a joke or that i dont like "comedy" but i like comedic stuff when they have a *CONTEXT* or they are *CLEVER* enough to caught me off guard and make me laugh at how clever the joke was, farting and saying stupid crap for the sake of looking like a complete asshole isnt *FUNNY* and so i do despise this movie and every single other one like this (including movie 43 *SPECIALLY MOVIE 43* ) just because they are even worse than the bottom of the barrel, and that's saying much. But i do like Scary Movie, American Pie and Another Teenager Movie, but this ones? no thank you.
I had forgotten how desperately this movie attempted to pander to fans of pop culture by shamelessly referencing anything that had even the smallest amount of relevance around that time. I hate the fact that if one movie or show becomes successful, a multitude of knock offs follow suit. These knock offs become so ubiquitous that their premise defines an entire era. Instead of pushing for quality, the entertainment industries use movies like this one as "filler" until either something original comes along or something old can be successfully revived. Anything to make money, I guess.
Oh yeah, I remember this... Sadly back then I had no idea what these things were, and I watched Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans too (of course, not in theatres but from torrents) out of curiosity. Two of these were enough to make me stay far, far away from any of these types of movies forever.
i remember that i only saw this movie because i got free tickets, but they didn't told me wich movie the tickets where for, so i said, what0s the worst it could happen
@@DVDandFilmBloke Is it sad that when I hear Life Of Brian I think of the Family Guy episode where Brian died? And then was brought back a couple episodes later? THAT is when I truly think the show went beyond the point of no return (Also still think Quagmire killed the pooch)
I'm actually a bit confused, I dont know if they released a different cut for Mexico, but this is the first time I see that crystal of "mass destruction". The plot I remember was just them having to deafeat the villain.
So I know this could be said about most jokes in this thing but...that Harry Potter joke is so baffling. Wouldn't that joke be better used on something that actually uses grown ass adults to play teens or something where characters are kinda stuck in a stasis like Dawson's Creek for the first or the Simpsons for the latter? The Harry Potter cast started as the same age as their characters and by the time of the last film were only around 4 years older than their characters.
I remember at one point I was considering watching this movie, but then one of my friends showed me this review on the original website. Dodged a bullet there! One minor complaint, though: I'll never understand why everyone hates Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so much. I really think it's a great movie, and I did see the Gene Wilder version first.
@@scottylewis8124 Regardless, it still sucked in that it turned Dahl's Marty Stu Charlie into a Purity Stu and Dahl's mysterious and eccentric Willy Wonka into a Cloud Cuckoolander with daddy issues and a dark backstory that was done too many times, such as with the Grinch in 2000 (and 2018) and the Penguin (who's nothing like the Penguin in the comics, who in those was a criminal who wore black and white and hated penguins, not a conman raised at a circus and living with penguins in Batman Returns), and nobody ever asked how any of those characters became who they were in the movies. Unsurprisingly, Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can be considered Deader Than Disco, according to the YMMV subpage of TV Tropes' article on the movie. Also, Burton himself said, "Anyone who knows me will say I would never read a comic book," which to Kevin Smith "explains fucking Batman."
This review was originally posted in August 2010, and is a recut version that runs 3m shorter than the original, with numerous cuts to film clips, remove some jokes I don't feel worked, and tighten up the pacing. If the review doesn't look great, there is a reason for that: my friend Chris edited this review, and I don't have the final master file for it, I only have the heavily compressed FLV file that I uploaded to Blip (you got better quality doing it that way than them doing the conversion for you). As such, in order to re-edit this, I had to convert that back into an MP4 file to edit that, so this is essentially a fourth generation file, although I have nevertheless upscaled it to HD to preserve what quality there is. I've also applied noise reduction throughout the review to reduce tape and camera noise. That's part of the reason this heavily-requested review has been away for so long. This re-post is to coincide with Night School, as Kevin Hart is in this in a prominent uncredited role that he'd likely not want to be reminded of. Have fun!
Film Brain In your older reviews, why was your censorship inconsistent? Sometimes you censored “fuck,” other times you didn’t. Were they references to how inconsistent TV censorship is?
You did a great job at restoring and re-editing. Big thumbs up!
I didn't even know that you reviewed Epic Movie until now. There aren't that many reviews of the movie.
I have a dark confession to make. I once had this movie in my film collection. Not only that, I watched thier films a lot and thought it was funny.
Film Brain This review was my introduction to you. I saw it when Thatguywiththeglasses.com was still around.
You cannot spoof a comedy. That's the most basic rule of parody humor. These movies fail at even that simple concept.
Exactly! How does one try to parody movies like Borat, which are meant to be comedies in the first place? You don't. BTW, Borat does politically incorrect humor much better than Seltzerberg ever will.
Dioji Woolf
And while we are at it, the whole joke of surreal comedies is serious characters are living in a world operating by cartoon logic and they are unaware of that fact.
@@caravaggio1534 Same here. Now I watch to Borat again bc I love politically incorrect humor and it did so much better
That’s like adding frosting to ice cream
It's pretty much a paradox. Making fun of something that was supposed to be a joke to begin with makes no sense.
It's a shame really great TH-cam channels get copyright strikes for unfair reasons, yet these two idiots get to straight up rip off other properties with no apparent consequence.
I agree
The problem with these spoof movies are they're way too unfocused and throw in too many characters and scenes from movies that have nothing to do with the actual movie and are just there.
This movie is so 2006 its physically causing me pain.
I feel you man.
I caught this abomination on TV when I was younger. I switched pretty quick.
Smart kid.
@@TheSkully343 thanks.
@@TheSkully343 as for this, ugh! I think I'm going to be violently ill!
Friedberg /Seltzer movie are so Bad, porn parodys are better.
....actually what if their secret desire was to make porn spoofs ,but was stuck with mainstream Hollywood instead
I remember being about 12 years old at secondary school and thinking this film looked like the funniest film ever made. I should also say I had awful taste back then.
Your brain wasn't in the right place.
I finally have someone to share the guilt with.
@@MrJackblack7 really?
Scotty Lewis Well I wasn't exactly proud of my tastes back then.
@@MrJackblack7 neither was I.
Yeah, that whole "From 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie" thing... the other four writers never actually read Friedberg and Seltzer's script. The duo wrote an early draft, and were only credited for contractual reasons.
What a fun fact!
By contractual reasons it means "they did it mostly because coincidentally all of them had the same idea - making a parody of Scream - so thanks to WGA the producers blended Wayans, Buddy Johnson and Phil Beauman's script with another one Miramax had and Friedberg and Seltzer's draft"
They didn't even "blend" scripts. They bought Seltzerberg's script just so it wouldn't compete with Scream.
so crispin glover said no to back to the futures sequels but said yes to this what a weird world we live in
You could TELL he wasn’t in them.
He didn't say no, the producers just refused to pay him.
He did this just to pay a few bills.
Luis Mario Guerrero Sánchez Not true. He asked for a Higher Salary and creative control over his Character George McFly. Crispin went over the Studio Heads at Universal.
A world in which Sean Connery turns down Lord of the Rings to make League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I've seen movies made back in the 1920s that have aged better than this movie from 11 years ago. The sad part about Epic movie in particular is there are a few jokes that could have worked, but they lack any context and most of them drag on way too long.
That's the thing that killed me whenever I watched Friedberg and Seltzer's films, there's moments of inspired insanity going on, but they just either overexplain or stay on a gag for way too long that it just ruins what few good moments these films had.
The British guy saying "Big blue bingo wings like a fat Britney Spears." that was actually pretty good ngl lol! 19:28.
You know a movie is bad when the only funny jokes involve someone getting shot. Also, the "joke" where the girl was accidentally crushing David Caradinne's hand was stolen from Good Burger. (Uh, Dexter, you're squishing my pancreas)
Considering this movie was from 2006, the “weapon of mass destruction” could’ve been potentially and maybe even cleverly used to parody George Bush’s reasoning for us getting into a war with Iraq, but then I realize that would take more effort and thinking in a movie that lacks it.
This is why I don't take spoof movies seriously anymore.
After the likes of Scary Movie (which I admittedly liked), the filmmakers seem to have gotten lazy with the likes of Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, and especially this movie.
That's not to say there are good parody movies, especially with the likes Spaceballs and The Lego Batman Movie (as well as the movies you've mentioned) being great examples of this.
However, a lot of these Seltzerman/Friedberg movies give spoof flicks a bad name.
People like to blame Seltzerberg for the demise of the genre, but the truth is, it was already at death's door in the late 90s - just check out Leslie Nielsen's filmography post-1994 if you don't believe me.. The Scary Movie series managed to temporarily revive it, but then these two clowns came along and buried it once and for all.
@@MrCaerbannog and now we have internet parodies.
Cool, parady movies usually are better when they have a focus.
"Not Another Teen Movie" is actually decent and the first Scary Movie I'll admit to enjoying but the spoof is a genre that has lost its way since the 70s and 80s era of greatness.
"References are not Jokes"
Tell that to Robot Chicken and Family Guy.
However, they do it better in my opinion.
+lizzset
Agreed.
All these are copied from Kentucky fried Movie 1977 ... view that .
usually robot chicken actually works in the references for actual timing jokes instead of "hey look, it's this thing from pop culture! ARE WE FUNNY YET?!?!!!?!!!!!!
At least Family Guy tries, eventhough it's hit and miss.
Robot Chicken defiantly succeeds in dark humor.
I'm just happy that these kinds of spoof movies seem to be dying out now, guess the kind of audience they were aiming for grew up and moved on
If I want genuinely funny and clever lowest common denominator parodies, I'll just watch Robot Chicken or Spitting Image
I think they actually stole the joke with the White Witch show her breasts from a Robot Chicken Sketch. The amount of stuff they stole is mind boggling!
And still managed to make it all shit. This movie is lucky Freddy got Fingered exist.
Duwayne Dunson they’re the only one who are lucky that it exists
@@HeadphonesUK ha I said that before I got to the part where he mentioned those 2 movie being in the same class. Even though they're not. FGF is in a class all it's own.
Yeah, I call that class 'Movies that prove that hell ain't a bad place to be'
I work at an oil rig in Mexico. After 14 days of labor me and my colleagues were aboard the ship that was taking us to dry land. This movie was shown during the trip and for the first time ever the workers asked the captain to turn the movie off or put another one.Even they couldn't endure this travesty. And I'm talking about people who find funny and enjoy the Adam Sandler movies.
Back when Kevin Hart was an unknown actor.
Absolutely I couldn’t believe it at first
He come so far
It seems that Hollywood is no longer funding anymore Friedberg/Seltzer films. One of their future projects, *_Who the F#@K Took My Daughter?,_* which was to be a _Taken_ parody, hasn't been heard about for four years, and another, a _Star Wars_ parody titled *_Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue,_* was said to film in fall 2017 but nothing's come about it either. Has Hollywood finally given up on those two guys?
I remember hearing years ago (about 2010-2011 if I remember correctly) news was circulating around that they were going to make an Avatar spoof called The Biggest Movie of All Time in 3D, but it never got produced.
Oh yea, I remember hearing of that one, too. It seems that that film is also never going to ever see the light of day, either, and thank god too, cause who would want to pay to see what will predictably be yet another shitty parody from those guys, especially in *_3D?_*
@@DemonBoy3223 And all their recent shit post Vampires Suck was released direct to video. Like, are those selling so poorly that their recent projects are falling by the wayside. Either people have wised up or just don't care. It's most likely both.
Wow those movie titles are trying so hard it’s painful
They're making a Taken parody?
I'm pretty sure Taken has already had a spoof movie called Tooken (yes, really) and the sequels basically made the franchise into a joke anyway.
Borat does politically incorrect humor much better than Seltzerberg ever will.
Anyone does any type of humor better than Seltzer and Friedberg ever will.
Still a better film than Disaster Movie… And still… My deepest sympathy for anyone who had been through this piece of abomination.
Oh trust me friend, I've seen both of these trainwrecks. Two of the worst films ever made. But then again if you wanted to have fun and watch them baked just to laugh at how bad they are then I guess they have that going for them
I'm curious; why is Disaster Movie worse? I've heard a lot of people say that
Jake Gibbard they are both just as bad. They are both extremely stupid movies that fail on every level
At least Disaster Movie has an accurate title. That movie truly is a disaster. What's even epic about Epic Movie? Is it just so epically horrible?
@@jakegibbard It takes everything bad about Epic Movie and cranks it to 11.
There is barely a plot, the references are all over the place and make even less sense than the ones in Epic Movie, the jokes drag on for way too long (the Head-On headache creme ad is a prime example of this), and there are far too many musical/dance numbers.
Friedberg and Seltzer are the worst filmmakers ever!
Vince Offer: Hold my ShamWow!
Back in the day the only way terrible projects like these could get greenlit was because someone involved was the kept boy of a mogul.
@TheDreReichDude if people were stupid. That's what he meant.
Neil Breen! That is all I have to say. Look him up. I haven't watched his movies. But only two of his trailers.
liizzset He’s a Breenius!
I still die of laughter when Film Brain screams,"David Carradine???!!??"🤣🤣
There are some films that I think can be uses to torture people. Like this one.
This review is funnier than the movie
40 XDDD I agree!
And what's actually funny about the Charlie & The Chocalate Factory parody is that Crispin Glover eventually appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp, who played Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. And it was not the first time that they appeared in the same movie, as they both appeared in Lasse Hallstrom's What Eating Gilbert Grape 17 years earlier. Also that Superman Returns actually had Kal Penn as one of Lex Luthor's minions, and that Hector Jimenez (who played Mr. Tumnus in this movie) actually appeared in Nacho Libre.
Yes. The movie is not even remotely funny. This review is hilarious (and accurate).
Quite a lot of it was based on 2005 movies and it came out in 2007 so it was dated on release
Early 2007 but your point still stands. I saw it in theaters (I was 16) and I remember it being one of the first movies I saw in a theater that was truly awful.
Early 2005/2006 movies
This movie's jokes were chosen via dartboard but the writers kept missing the dartboard.
The only funny thing about this movie is that people paid money for it.
The Pluto Nash clip from robot chicken pretty much sums up everyone's reaction to this skid mark.
unfortuntaly i went to go watch this when i got younger
You got me there. When I was a dumb 12 year old I saw it in the theater twice then bought the DVD.
3:56 my reaction to the movie
Lesson: when doing a parody or spoof make sure you research the thing you are parodying and don't overly it with stuff references even to the point of Blatant Plagarism or thinly veiled shallow parody
I just realized that the Willy Wonka torture bit was supposed to be a reference to that old fan theory that the Gene Wilder Wonka is a serial killer who uses human flesh for his candy...a reference that's rendered invalid since the Tim Burton movie they’re spoofing in particular AND the original book it was advertised as being closer to showed that the cast survived
In fairness, there was a creepy serial killer vibe to Depp's Wonka but that's giving them to much credit.
Glad this is back on YT. This was actually the first review of yours I ever watched, I've been hooked ever since
A movie so bad that even a review of it is kinda painful to watch...
9:50 Because it was funny in Airplane? Except it worked there to fit the madness of how everyone was reacting to the plane falling, this was just…Seltzerberg.
I watched this movie with my friends in middle school. We thought it seemed funny. in the commericals. When we left the theather, we then made a pact to never tell our parents what this movie even was. We were too terrified to let them know. The Wonka scene still haunts me to this day
Pretty sure this would make Roald Dahl roll over in his grave even more so than the adaptation by Tim Burton this THING was referencing. So I don't blame you and your friends one bit.
I think Crispin Glover may legitimately be insane
Or He just needed the job
This is not a bad movie, its a HORRID movie, honestly, the writers who wrote this should be out of a job and kick out of Hollywood for good.
I’d question Hollywood for green lighting their work. They’re basically the Powell and Pressburger of garbage films.
@@kingamoeboid3887 Why did anybody think there were any possibilities for these films?!
On the bright side, Seltzerberg's stock went way down after Vampires Suck. Their last few movies had limited releases and were certified box-office bombs, and despite announcing a few projects haven't actually released anything since 2015. Let's keep it that way.
We know Epic Movie is insufferable when Kevin Hart left himself uncredited, so he was definitely ashamed of ever participating. But Disaster Movie worsened the horrid qualities of Epic Movie and Date Movie combined. Remember that you shouldn't parody comedies, since your spoof movie is already a comedy hence the rules of humorous art in cinema.
Thing is, there is a lot about Epic Films as a genre that can be parodied, their typically gargantuan lengths, their similarly gargantuan casts, and plots that rarely feel like one narrative as much as they do TV miniseries.
I'm eating Nacho chips while watching this!
Your review is so much funnier than the actual movie, itself!
Maybe eat nacho chips while watching Nacho Libre instead.
Wow, this movie absolutely sucks
4:23 is pretty much Cal Penn's reaction to the damage he did to his career. He's like please kill me. Kill me. Get me out of this irredeemable pile of horse crap.
And what's actually funny is that, considering the Superman Returns parody at 12:58, Superman Returns actually featured Kal Penn as one of Lex Luthor's minions.
@@aussieman3021 oh my.
Yet Kal Penn is actually the one who had the best career after this movie.
10:37 Wait, so they parody Nacho Libre and yet still pay an actor from that movie to be in this? What?! That makes no sense whatsoever.
Edit: I just realized that Kal Penn was in Superman Returns. That's two angering instances.
You can add a third because Jennifer Coolidge was in Click, which was a movie that Sophie Monk (who appeared in Date Movie with Coolidge, in the same YEAR to be precise) appeared in as well.
14:36 Okay, I kinda laughed at that part. However, they killed it by making it drag for too long.
I don't blame you. It forced you to laugh.
That was the one joke that surprisingly worked, everything else was either a reference or jokes that drag longer than they should.
Seeing Kevin Hart in this hurts just as much as the fact that these asshole directors dragged amazing voice actress Brittney Karbowski in The Starving Games. Just...why?
They were animals! And I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!
And Kevin McDonald!!! Da fuk
@@GagsAnimation Vampires Suck even had an appearance of Kevin McDonald's Kids in the Hall collaborator Dave Foley.
RIP Fred Willard..
the funniest part is the guy playing Cyclops actually does bear some resemblance to James Marsden... unless its actually him.
And later played Prince Edward from Enchanted, another James Marsden role, in Disaster Movie.
Also fun fact. Wolverine was seen in bed with Mystique in the Marvel event comic House Of M.
Except that was in an alternate reality.
Either these Movie Makers are extremely unfunny or this is anti humor.
Nah. Anti-humor requires a lot of subversion. This movie's jokes are *trying* to be real humor.
4:33 I wouldn't expect Seltzerberg to make a Strong Bad reference. That would actually be funny.
9:44 Oh, and the old "open closet and a whole bunch of stuff falls out" gag. That goes back to radio shows from the 1930s.
11:02 In almost every episode of Cribs featuring a rapper's crib, the rapper has a Scarface poster in his home.
tbf, i think it would be funnier if there was a cribs parody where scarface posters are used as wallpaper and carpeting
it only took me 5 seconds to think of that but y'know
It gets even worse in Meet The Spartans, where the actors keep turning to the camera and *EXPLAINING* what the "references" are. Even more so than they do here. Why not hold up a cardboard sign with "PLZ LAUGH NOW" written on it in crayon while you're at it?
GOOD GRIEF! Seems like Seltzer & Friedberg never saw The New Batman Adventures episode Mad Love. Because in that episode Joker said something I live by in regard to jokes. That line being "IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE! THERE IS NO JOKE!"
Something occurred to me - they could've used Aslan as it can't be copyrighted due to just being Turkish for lion, rendering whatever joke they're attempting even more nonsensical
They Forgot to put "Failure" between epic and movie.
Does anyone notice the herry Potter is played by the guy who did voice work for cat scratch & invader Zim
Holy shit, you're right.
@@PhoenixRising87 ikr i thought i was the only one who noticed also how the fuck did they get that guy?
"How do you put a funny spin on something that was supposed to be funny in the first place?" There's Seltzerberg logic for you.
Because it doesn't add anything and can end up stealing and plagiarizing from the original work, as the Borat "parody" proved at 18:18 to 18:25.
(14:22) Looking at you, Justin Roiland.
Why would they cast a actor from nacho libre while parodying nacho libre?
He was playing a different character from a different movie. He just happened to be in a movie that also had Nacho Libre
Why would I thought Jayma Mays was Lookalike of movie at 3:04
Clips i used for this: this is bad comedy!
This! Isn't! Funny!
I saw most of Epic Movie on TV once. The *only* jokes that me chuckle were the brief mention of White Castle (which I now see isn't funny) and when Tumnus got shot (until they made the joke go on for too long). I got so bored that I ended up devoting my attention to watching TH-cam videos on my dad's computer.
They thought the White Castle reference was funny because it involved the character played by the same actor that played
Kumar in Harold & Kumar.
This is my favorite review from you. Your reactions to bad comedy are so much funnier than your reactions to bad action movies.
What happened in hindsight about Crispin Glover playing a Willy Wonka parody in a parody of Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is funnier than the parody, because Crispin Glover eventually appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton's Willy Wonka himself Johnny Depp (and not the first time they appeared in a movie together, with What's Eating Gilbert Grape 17 years earlier).
1:57-2:07 I love how you sound like a frustrated little kid (that wasn’t an insult by the way).
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@@Vinnisaurus meme it!
The mental image of Film Brain pouting and folding his arms comes to mind.
Meme it
“This is outright THEFT”
Haha you’re awesome man, keep making videos !
If you gave anyone with a brain cell this same basic premise and told them to write a script of their own with it, they'd cook up something way better than this. Online video reviewers, always proving that there are far worse things than the worst movie you've ever seen (at least "Addicted to Fresno," for as ABSOLUTELY VILE as it was, didn't lazily rehash plot points and jokes from other hotel-set movies, nor did it constantly point them out as if we weren't able to figure it out straight away).
Or even someone with no brain cells can write a better spoof than this.
16:12, No Jack-Diddly-Squat, Einstein.
Its like the Film's trying to be Self-Aware at this point.........WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO BE SELF-AWARE AND EVEN IF YOU TRY TO BE SELF-AWARE, THE FILM WILL STILL BE BAD!!!
I think the Cribs gag was spoofing how everyone in 2005/2006 was obsessed with Scarface. There was Scarface junk everwhere. Also the bullet in the eye had context as it was spoofing the Superman Returns trailer where the bullet bounces off his eye
@jbiehlable it was like a virus.
@jbiehlable *blushes* Thank you.
@jbiehlable goths are always interesting.
@jbiehlable Starfire was my first animated crush.
By "No context," Mathew meant that it was supposedly a flashback where this blonde orphan (whose wings were too small to fly and who attends an academy to learn how to control his powers) used to be a dark-haired adult (who could fly with no problem and who would go after criminals).
The 1980 hit comedy film spoof Flying High! is way better than Epic Movie. Flying High! is a excellent comedy film.
What part the Golden Tickets had in this slock?
Bad and unfunny is one thing, but throwing away your plot, or what goes for plot in this thing is unforgivable.
2:53-2:57 - And yet they proudly plastered their logo in front of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, AVP: Requiem, Dragonball: Evolution, Fant4stic, A Good Day to Die Hard and every other of their cinematic blunders you can think of! So you mean to tell me that all of those shitstains were OK, yet this is the one that they were ashamed of?! No wonder Disney bought them out.
Also, poor Jayma Mays. First this, then The Smurfs? What did she do to deserve this?
6:43 - Oh, trust me, I wish I was watching Shameless instead!
The Happening. X-Men Origins Wolverine. Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li. Yeah, they have no restraint! But THIS? This shit is too much. Even Lionsgate wouldn't let this garbage use their logo!
Actually, I thought AVP: Requiem was slightly better than its predecessor, but Fox distributed that too...
And that sadly includes the three other Seltzer-berg they put their logo on...
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives they did this film at gunpoint. I can tell.
Epic Movie 1/10 is way worse than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 4/10, AvP Requiem 4/10, Fant4stic 7/10 and A Good Day To Die Hard 4/10
I haven't seen Dragonball: Evolution but somehow I doubt that's as bad as this piece of cinematic drivel either.
@@franohmsford7548 it is.
Epic Movie...Epic Cluster****...
One of only two movies I regret ever watching, the other is "Son of the Mask".
I find these movies interesting because they’re practically a time capsule of 2006. Also I was gonna say this is the most shameful thing Kevin Heart has done, but then I saw Think Like A Man 2.
The worst part of the box-office returns of 'Epic Movie' is that they ensured the movie buried the much-superior 'Hot Fuzz' at the US box-office. Thank goodness for the home entertainment market.
"The much-superior 'Hot Fuzz'", huh? I doubt it, Jack Monaghan; both Edgar Wright AND Seltzerberg are equally insulting in terms of comedy (Seltzerberg, because of their use of gross-out humor and pop cultural references; and Edgar Wright, because of his use of flashy edits/transitions [which he CONSTANTLY mistakes for jokes] and... pop cultural references). There's no difference between Wright and Seltzerberg, in my view; both are con artists of the highest grade, and BOTH are utterly clueless about how comedy works (with the cluelessness, in both cases, bordering on comedic vandalism). It's just that, in this instance, one fraudster - or PAIR of fraudsters, to be specific - turned out to be more successful than the other. At day's end, however, Wright and Seltzerberg are still two sides of the same thalidomide idiot (like James Cameron and Michael Bay, or Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman), and those who don't notice this fact of nature will ALWAYS be comedically illiterate in my book.
[NOTE: If I wanted to see a film that succeeded where "Hot Fuzz" failed, I'd simply put on "Pulp Fiction". At least with THAT film, I could make out the punchlines to SOME of the jokes therein {e.g., the "Gold Watch" scene featuring Christopher Walken; the punchline there was that Walken's character went into too much detail about how that watch was preserved... complete with a "hiding-it-up-the-ass" quip}.]
[Opinion by Carl Schaeffer]
Crispin Glover, you're better than this, why are you here?
I bet he was begging to be killed by a swarm of rats.
I feel this . i think him being black listed due to the back to the future drama has made it hard for him to get good roles despite that it seems like back to the future is the only time he didn't get along with the director and producers.
Also nice to see a relatable comment. The only reason why i clicked on this to see if anyone else was dissapointed to see him in this trash fire movie. I know it's sad of me..
4:22 the look on Cal Penn's face pretty much sums up the damage he did to his career. He's thinking: God kill me. Get me out of this piece of shit.
Here's a rule of thumb. If you want to do parody right, don't remind us of better movies or even subpar movies while we're watching yours.
Ok this has been annoying me for ages now. What is the music that Matt plays over his staring, annoyed face on two different points of the film? One is at 10:31
I've been wondering that too, honestly.
You know a movie is bad when you can take out more and its better.
Epic Movie Was A Box Office Failure. Also At The Start The 20th CENTURY FOX Logo Wasn't Shown In The Actual Film Or On Any Promotional Material But I Saw A 20th CENTURY FOX Home Entertainment Logo On The Side Of The DVD.
I don't get what they're supposed to be spoofing here, it's so random. Xmen, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Snakes on a Plane?
4:23, Kal Penn REALLY not wanting to be in this movie.
Embarrassingly I'll admit when I was a kid I enjoyed both date movie and meet the Spartans and meet the Spartans in particular was always a guilty pleasure of mine for some unknown reason.
Has no one seriously brought the fact that this movie has incest in it? Several of the main characters ended up having a foursome with Fred Willard's character and then they find out they're siblings a few hours (in movie time) later. I honestly can't tell whether this is more of the director's warped psyche or evidence the film was made up as they went.
Yeah. Even though they didn't know they were at the time. It still makes me want to puke.
Sweet home Alabama!!
@@pingpong3311 congratulations, you've made a funnier joke than this movie
>comparing a deliberately confrontational anti-comedy with a lazy spoof movie
Oh okay
I remember when i did a reunion with a bunch of friends, we got some movies to watch and *THIS MOVIE ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THEM* the funny thing is i knew they wanted to see this one knowing that they liked the other ones and the 300 spoof as well and i kinda wanted to them to forgot about it since i just didnt wanted to watch this one.
Thing is i ended up watching it not once, not twice, not three times but like 7 times because they liked it so goddamn much that every now or then they will pop this sucker in and i had to sit throught this torture without even having a choice to not watch it, and im not joking they *LOVED* the jokes in this movie, things like every single harry potter character dying because why not? the random star wars references that doesnt make sense, that god awful Pirates of the Caribeean rap, and the borat scenes, also whenever tits or farts or something "shit" related joke come up they laughed their asses off, call me a pesimistic or too nip picky and that i dont know how to take a joke or that i dont like "comedy" but i like comedic stuff when they have a *CONTEXT* or they are *CLEVER* enough to caught me off guard and make me laugh at how clever the joke was, farting and saying stupid crap for the sake of looking like a complete asshole isnt *FUNNY* and so i do despise this movie and every single other one like this (including movie 43 *SPECIALLY MOVIE 43* ) just because they are even worse than the bottom of the barrel, and that's saying much.
But i do like Scary Movie, American Pie and Another Teenager Movie, but this ones? no thank you.
Reza Lustig Or anything from Mel Brooks filmography except Dracula: Dead and Loving it and Life Stinks.
I had forgotten how desperately this movie attempted to pander to fans of pop culture by shamelessly referencing anything that had even the smallest amount of relevance around that time. I hate the fact that if one movie or show becomes successful, a multitude of knock offs follow suit. These knock offs become so ubiquitous that their premise defines an entire era. Instead of pushing for quality, the entertainment industries use movies like this one as "filler" until either something original comes along or something old can be successfully revived. Anything to make money, I guess.
That remote really turned me off. I was like "wtf?" So stupid.
maybe mystique's flabby arm shapeshift gag was a monkeybone reference lol
Oh yeah, I remember this... Sadly back then I had no idea what these things were, and I watched Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans too (of course, not in theatres but from torrents) out of curiosity. Two of these were enough to make me stay far, far away from any of these types of movies forever.
14:22 - Film Brain's signature quote!
Borat is hilarious! Its infinity times funnier than Epic Fail.
Who plays him ?????
@@filmunion8194 I wasn't talking about the version of Borat in this movie.
i remember that i only saw this movie because i got free tickets, but they didn't told me wich movie the tickets where for, so i said, what0s the worst it could happen
Team Seltzberg shouldn't be allowed near a camera ever.
Crispin glovers best performance is definitely Willard.
Which is proof he deserves better roles.
shaun of the dead is a better movie than this
Idk the way the british dude describes how the fat arms should look is hilarious in how stupid it is.
Anyone remember "Film Brain Reviews Suburban Knights?"
If their was one film the "film makers" needed to watch was Monty Python and The Holy Grail (A brilliant piss take of historical epics)
That and Life of Brian, at least they had something to say about what historical figures are really like, (which are fucking lunatic murders)
Or maybe learn from the likes of Mel Brooks, a good Jewish parodist.
@@aussieman3021 Or Mel Brooks as well
@@DVDandFilmBloke Is it sad that when I hear Life Of Brian I think of the Family Guy episode where Brian died? And then was brought back a couple episodes later? THAT is when I truly think the show went beyond the point of no return (Also still think Quagmire killed the pooch)
@@GatorRay Possibly, in fact yes, thankfully I still think of Monty Python's religious satire.
I'm actually a bit confused, I dont know if they released a different cut for Mexico, but this is the first time I see that crystal of "mass destruction". The plot I remember was just them having to deafeat the villain.
That was only in the unrated version. The theatrical version in America didn’t have it either.
So I know this could be said about most jokes in this thing but...that Harry Potter joke is so baffling. Wouldn't that joke be better used on something that actually uses grown ass adults to play teens or something where characters are kinda stuck in a stasis like Dawson's Creek for the first or the Simpsons for the latter? The Harry Potter cast started as the same age as their characters and by the time of the last film were only around 4 years older than their characters.
my dad watched this whilst i was in the room when i was 7/8 and gave me nightmares for days
I remember at one point I was considering watching this movie, but then one of my friends showed me this review on the original website. Dodged a bullet there!
One minor complaint, though: I'll never understand why everyone hates Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so much. I really think it's a great movie, and I did see the Gene Wilder version first.
Because it's a more faithful adaptation of the book.
Because something something inflation fetish. (This reply will eventually be updated to have an actual joke, I just need to think of it)
@@scottylewis8124 Regardless, it still sucked in that it turned Dahl's Marty Stu Charlie into a Purity Stu and Dahl's mysterious and eccentric Willy Wonka into a Cloud Cuckoolander with daddy issues and a dark backstory that was done too many times, such as with the Grinch in 2000 (and 2018) and the Penguin (who's nothing like the Penguin in the comics, who in those was a criminal who wore black and white and hated penguins, not a conman raised at a circus and living with penguins in Batman Returns), and nobody ever asked how any of those characters became who they were in the movies. Unsurprisingly, Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can be considered Deader Than Disco, according to the YMMV subpage of TV Tropes' article on the movie. Also, Burton himself said, "Anyone who knows me will say I would never read a comic book," which to Kevin Smith "explains fucking Batman."