Diss-Cussion of EPIC MOVIE

I saw this one last night. It had a few inspired gags, and a lot more humor that fell flat. In short, it wasn't much different than the spate of similar films, such as the Scary Movie series. It is worthy of discussion, but the guess here is that by the time we get near the end of 2007, we'll have a host of more promising candidates for Razzie gold.

The more interesting aspect of seeing this film was the trailer for Delta Farce, which I have discussed elsewhere on the site.

Um...I believe it's only 2 of the 6 people of Scary Movie...the bottom two (Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer).  Just wait untli they make Action Movie, Romantic Movie, Romantic Comedic Movie, Goth Movie, Emo Movie, Cartoon Movie,  Parody Movie (a movie that parodies parodies), and Bad Movie (a movie that parodies bad movies...badly).

Unfortunately, the way Hollywood has been, don't be surprised if these movies happen.  And considering that Epic Movie made it to #1 at the box office...oh boy.

Date Movie made $48 million in the US and $84 million worldwide.

Both Date Movie and Epic Movie had budgets of about $20 million each.

What does it say about a movie when you can see the boom mike in a number of scenes?    Or where you can clearly see the face of Fred Willard's stunt double when you should see Fred Willard fighting?    Or when it's obvious they are using a dummy?    Or, and sad to say but it's true, when some of its best performances were by Carmen Electra? 

Screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer were among the screenwriters who worked on the Scary Movies, and even then, they only worked on certain characters.  After seeing this dud, I would suggest they dump these two.  Although I laughed a number of times, for the most part, Friedberg and Seltzer can't deliver anything that's funny. 

Not only that, but this apparently low budget dud was supposed to spoof The Chronicles of Narnia, The DaVinci Code, The Pirates of the Carribbean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, X-Men and Harry Potter movies (along with way too many others).  Yet Fox spent next to nothing on special effects.  I guess they decided the beaver was the only thing that needed to be done.  They could have erased the boom mikes, morphed the dummies to be more realistic and put Willard's face over his stunt double's face, but no.  It was more like watching a home made production rather than a major studio release.

Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Coolidge, Darrell Hammond, Fred Willard, David Lehre, Kevin McDonald. . . . almost the entire cast turned in worse performances than Carmen Electra did as Mystique.    THERE AREN'T ENOUGH RAZZIE NOMINATIONS TO GO AROUND FOR THIS STINKER!  It's easier to say that Jayma Mays, David Carradine and Jareb Dauplaise performed well, AND THAT'S IT!  Deserving of special attention are Hector Jiminez for French kissing a beaver and Vince Vieluf for acting more like a parody of Teen Wolf than of Wolverine.

Last year's Date Movie only got one nomination (and one dishonor) because of Carmen Electra, but 2006 had more than its fair share of bad movies.  I hope we don't neglect Epic Movie in this year's noms.