Epic Movie
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: January 26, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
14
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67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Epic Movie is just timely enough to conclude with a wink and a nod to Borat. I only wish that it had been bold enough to go Borat on HIM. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The humor is coarse and occasionally funny. The archly bombastic score, by Edward Sheamur, is the only thing you might call witty. But happily, Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard show up, as the White Bitch and Aslo the Lion, to add some easy, demented class. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAlex Chun
The real problem with Epic Movie is that while it does a decent job imitating films, it never bothers to make fun of or have fun with them, which is what Friedberg and Seltzer did so well with "Scary Movie." Read full review
30
VarietyRonnie Scheib
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, big studio Hollywood hitmakers should consider themselves lauded to the max in Jason Friedberg and Aaron Selzer's Epic Movie, the latest (and epically unfunny) entry in the movie parody franchise. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The cinematic equivalent of a tapeworm, this delivers few laughs beyond the initial chuckles of recognition. Seltzer and Friedberg (who also directed) have another script in development called "Raunchy Movie"; apparently one idea they haven't yet considered is "Watchable Movie." Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Epic Movie is a waste of time. It's like a bad issue of "Cracked Magazine" come to life. It's not so much painful as it is sleep inducing. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The sadists responsible for the painfully unfunny "Date Movie" (2006) are back, and this time they've outdone themselves: This theater-clearer is even less amusing than its terrible predecessor, a spoof so devoid of laughs it can longer be categorized as a comedy. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Still, if it gets little else right, at least Epic Movie is accurately titled: It may be only 86 minutes long, but it feels as if it lasts forever. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer must be stopped. For the last two years, this filmmaking team has created a series of spoof movies so feeble, shoddy and unfunny that they may be part of a diabolical, "Manchurian Candidate"-like plot to stunt the intellectual development of American adolescents. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyJim Ridley
By the time this dud drops on NetFlix, it'll be as obsolete as a Chia pet jokebook. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A monumentally unfunny time-waster. Read full review
20
Film ThreatZack Haddad
It is just too bad that the film isn't called "Miniscule Movie" because that is a better description of this epic-less piece of garbage. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
This spoof of "The Da Vinci Code," "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Harry Potter," "The Chronicles of Narnia" and other recent blockbusters piles up sex gags, toilet gags and make-you-gag gags.
12
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The willful sloppiness and retrograde gags make Epic Movie, which was not shown to critics, an inevitable byproduct of our Internet video era. It seems downloaded and projected onto the screen, a failing online-film-school project paid for and put out by a Hollywood movie studio. That said, very little on YouTube is this unentertaining. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Only a complete idiot could think Epic Movie is remotely funny. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
I've rarely seen a movie as hostile as this one, both to its audience and to its protagonists, and I don't think I realized before just how mean-spirited comedy can get (and I was raised on the Three Stooges). Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
It's an ersatz comedy filled with unconvincing celebrity look-alikes and tone-deaf parodies. Only the desperation and cynicism feel authentic. Read full review
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