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Epic Movie
A comedic satire of such popular box-office hits as Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and X-Men.
10 October 1979, Decin, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
8 October 1955, Melbourne, Florida, USA
2 May 1922, Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
13 March 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 December 1936, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 February 1986, Laguna Beach, California, USA
18 September 1939, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
31 March 1958, Uniontown, Alabama, USA
November 20, 2008
Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme.January 22, 2008
Sucks like a black hole.April 24, 2008
sucksDecember 14, 2010
Raunchy blockbuster spoof is over the top, dumb.July 28, 2008
A painful regurgitation of memorable moments from recent Hollywood blockbusters, the spoof film Epic Movie is almost entirely devoid of laughs.January 30, 2007
How can you make fun of such self-aware subjects as Borat or Johnny Depp's winkingly fey Jack Sparrow? Who hasn't already noticed Tom Hanks' bad Da Vinci Code hair? And really, is there anything left to say about Samuel L. Jackson and those snakes?April 23, 2009
It plays out like an overlong Comedy Central skit lurching for the next laugh without any remorse for the gross misfires in between.February 10, 2007
The gutter-brow auteurs who helped write the first Scary Movie and created Date Movie milk their lame sketch-comedy minds for yet another punishingly uninspired skewering of Hollywood hits.January 30, 2007
An amateur-hour game of Spot That Reference, intended for people who crack up simply at the mention of anything topical.January 30, 2007
Epic Movie strays so far from the solid fundamentals of filmmaking that it calls the very foundation of humor into question.January 30, 2007
The makers of Epic Movie have just discovered the existence of urine, vomit and pimples, and declared them hilarious.January 31, 2007
Despite all the scatological high jinks on display, most of the satire is affectionate rather than merciless.