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Epic Movie
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Overwhelming dislike
Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 194 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Comedy
Written by:
Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Directed by:
Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 26, 2007
DVD: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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 >LA Weekly Jim Ridley
By the time this dud drops on NetFlix, it'll be as obsolete as a Chia pet jokebook.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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).
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 2.2 (out of 10) based on 194 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chris S gave it a0:
This is ten times worse than straight to DVD quality but yet this was shown in cinemas across the world.
Keenan S gave it a2:
It comes as no surprise to me that the hacks behind this film have more online petitions against them than Uwe Boll. There are literally sites that want them to just die. Epic Movie is absolutely horrendous in every way, and only serves as a sadistic torture device (Hm, imagine a horror film in which victims are tortured with this film). Epic Movie is so awful, it's almost as bad as Disaster Movie, but not quite. More like epic piece of shit! Friedberg and Seltzer must be stopped!
benjamin b gave it a0:
The only worse movie than this is, meet the Spartans.
Tanner JF gave it a1:
One funny part: When Crispin Glover danced to Fergalicious. Juss fast forward to that and consider yourself lucky.
Random Critic gave it a0:
People actually think this s**t is FUNNY ?!?!?! How do you work that? The plot is thinner than water-based tomato soup, the lines are written with nothing on the brain but vulgarity and lame pop-culture references, the "parodies" are not, in fact, parodies at all, merely a bunch of nobody actors playing dress-up, and two minutes cannot go by without someone getting beaten up/ killed, splattered with excretement of some kind, sexually violated/exposed, insulted, or madly burst into breakdancing and rapping. This movie is nothing but hostile and offensive, and should have been rated R. F**K YOU JASON FRIEDBURG AND AARON SELTZER!!! Do us all a favor and stop making this s**t!!!
K M gave it an8:
I will be honest this is only good if you watch it for the first time and are in a good mood or if you are really bored. However, there are some extremely funny moments in this film that are hard not to laugh at.
Why Not? gave it a0:
Epic fail. I've never even seen the movie -- this grade is from watching the trailers.
