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Epic Movie
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation


2.3

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence

Starring Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Carmen Electra, and Fred Willard

The twisted minds of two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in Epic Movie.

GENRE(S):	Adventure \| Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer
DIRECTED BY:	Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: May 22, 2007 Theatrical: January 26, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	86 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Owen 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.

Los Angeles Times Alex 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."

The New York Times A.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.

Chicago Reader J.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."

Variety Ronnie 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.

ReelViews James 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.

TV Guide Ken 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.

New York Daily News Elizabeth 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.

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.

LA Weekly Jim Ridley

By the time this dud drops on NetFlix, it'll be as obsolete as a Chia pet jokebook.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

A monumentally unfunny time-waster.

Film Threat Zack 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.

Boston Globe Wesley 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.

New York Post Kyle 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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Only a complete idiot could think Epic Movie is remotely funny.

Austin Chronicle Josh 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).

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

It's an ersatz comedy filled with unconvincing celebrity look-alikes and tone-deaf parodies. Only the desperation and cynicism feel authentic.

The average user rating for this movie is 2.3 (out of 10) based on 172 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sam K gave it a0:
Awful, not funny, and why did they call it "Epic Movie" it's almost all a really bad Narnia remake. I would have gave it a 2 if it's title was "A Very Bad Narnia remake/parody that had a mild success due to 11 year olds finding it funny, but really it's not".

Chad E. gave it a5:
Best part is when it makes fun of Samuel L Jackson on the plane. Probobly one of the stupidest movies ive ever seen.

King J. gave it a1:
The only funny thing about this movie is the terrible reviews it received.

Chris C. gave it a1:
I laughed once. It wasn't even a full laugh. I went to the theater with my friends to see it (who are admittedly younger than me), and it took several minutes after a scene for me to completely fathom the fact that they were laughing at it. It's not that the people who give the movie bad reviews don't have a good sense of humor; it's that the Scary Movie directors have lost their sense of humor, and those who liked it have a pitifully immature ense of humor. I have a very childish sense of humor, and I get hyper and laugh very easily, but scarfing down sugar during this movie was not enough to get more than a chuckle out of me. That so many other people were laughing is a bad sign for American society.

Clint H. gave it a1:
This movie was not made to entertain. It was made to remind you that parodies nowadays are filled with jokes nobody can handle. A few good laughs are in it, but are not enough to save this film from being a total bomb.

Phil S. gave it a0:
They put so much effort into duplicating the costumes and locations of the movies they're imitating, but they forgot to make it entertaining. "Epic movie" is not funny; in fact it becomes very irritating very quickly. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Steve J. gave it a0:
'll say one nice thing about Epic Movie: it tries really hard to be funny, and I give it credit for trying. In every other way, though, the movie is unfunny to a whole new level. I beifly considered laughing once or twice, but never ended up doing so while watching. The movie attempts to spoof everything it can legally, which brings up the questions of how it could possibly have any quality plot or humor. Guess what, it doesn't. Seriously, when it's your job to write comedies and you find yourself spoofing a spoof within a spoof of a spoof, you need to reconsider your career choices. I am referring to the Pirates of the Carribian-style "Lazy Pirate Sunday" about halfway through the film, which is also the point I stopped watching. Life is too short. All copies of this movie need to be destroyed, and the creators should be burned at the stake. Anyone who gives this movie a good review needs to find their way back to the Insane Assylum.

Epic Movie Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Epic Movie
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation