Review - Epic Movie
MOCK ZUCKER BLUES
A review of the unfortunate parody ‘Epic Movie’
By Robert Newton
EPIC MOVIE
Starring Kal Penn, Crispin Glover and Darrell Hammond; Written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer; 86 minutes; Rated PG-13 [for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence]
What a world. They lock up Jack Kevorkian after helping a few terminal patients humanely shuffle off this mortal coil, and guys like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are free to torture movie audiences time and again with painful parodic pap like the original Scary Movie, Date Movie, and now, this travesty of a so-called comedy. Futilely attempting to spoof popular movies like Superman Returns, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pirates of the Caribbean, the dorky duo seem to have absolutely no idea as to what parody is all about, and their total cluelessness is actually quite amazing.
Good comedy is like good drama, in that […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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