![]() These attempts at lampoon somehow miss the fact that the characters in those films were meant to be funny, and thus that pointing out their flaws isn’t funny, it’s just kind of baffling. Throughout Epic Movie, actors are featured impersonating and spoofing the titular characters from other contemporary comedies, such as Borat and Nacho Libre. The critical feeding frenzy following the film’s theatrical release was exhaustive, with only Entertainment Weekly offering up a lone, inexplicable ass-kissing review (one that doesn’t appear to be rooted in critical contrarianism, but simply an underdeveloped sense of humor.) Rather than review the film scene-by-scene, it seems more worthwhile, for critical purposes, to examine a few of the unfunny tropes it consistently employs. There have doubtlessly been hundreds of reviews exploring the myriad ways in which this send-up of the loosely-defined “epic” film genre is unfunny. Watching Epic Movie is like watching a feature film written and directed by that guy. ![]() Remember that jock who believed his sense of humor was on par with the class clown’s, but was so brick-dumb that he was unable, fundamentally, to grasp what makes things funny? He sat in the back making painfully unfunny yet smug wisecracks that invariably made the class fall into an awkward silence. It’s embarrassing in the same way watching your white, suburbanite father attempting to rap in front of all your friends would be embarrassing. Epic Movie does not number among them.Įpic Movie, much more than any of its predecessors in the Scary Movie-satire franchise, is actually embarrassing to watch. Plenty of excellent films have been summarily dismissed by mainstream critics throughout the years. It’s not an easy task to say something fresh and insightful about a film like Epic Movie, as it was almost universally panned upon its theatrical release.
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