Film of the Week: Epic Movie

It’s so bad, I stopped watching whilst a quarter of the way through. It’s supposed to be a series of parodies conjoined into one movie, but the final result is only but an offensive mesh of disgraceful representations. Parody movies were once a separate movie experience. It took either a genre of a specific film and poked fun at it without actually hurting the originals.

Films such as Airplane (which is an offence even to mention one of the greatest parody films of all time in a review about Epic Movie) took an entire genre, the disaster genre, and had tonnes of fun with it, poked fun at certain concepts, elevated other specific areas to a higher meaning to make us laugh. Top Secret, a spoof of war films, again made sure to make it a unique viewing experience. Those two greats are unique because they made sure to put their own original jokes in amongst spoofing the genre or film.

Epic Movie doesn’t add anything original to the spoofing the originals. In comparison, they just bullied the originals. I turned it off only but a quarter of the way through because I didn’t laugh one bit. I didn’t find anything in the movie actually funny. I didn’t find anything in that movie remotely representative of being an honest spoof. They tried to mash together so many different genres and movies together, none of it actually made any sense. At least with Scary Movie, when it was parodying Scream, it scattered different movie references throughout, but at strategic moments to emphasis the specific scene we were watching at the time. We recognise what’s going on and the blend of the two genres and movies do make us laugh as it’s unexpected and original.

Epic Movie is the direct antithesis of what a true parody is meant to be, it practically killed parody movies. The only great parody movie left is Johnny English, a spoof of spy movies, but unfortunately the grand gem that is, is just not strong enough to give other studious the confidence to make their own spoof films.

I’m bringing this film to your attention mainly because I’ve been suffering from a bad head cold which has also knocked my voice for six and I can barely talk, therefore I hadn’t the necessary concentration of the will power over the weekend to go to the cinema. Whilst I am writing this on a Tuesday, meaning I have some life inside me, but frankly after struggling to keep my eyes open since coming home from a rather intense atmospheric day at work; I really want to go to bed early so I can have some semblance of life in my body for work tomorrow. I’ve been keeping a good streak of blogs that I’d feel bad if I had missed todays, but hadn’t a clue what to write about. I chose Epic Movie because it was easy to vent how I actually feel on the inside as the result of my head cold, because Epic Movie only but deserves to be turned off by those who at least tried to give it a chance. If I had gone to the cinema to see it, I would have demanded a refund, that’s for sure. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened yet.

Thanks for reading

Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)