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posted Friday, September 5, 2008 - Volume 36 Issue 36 |
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Disaster Movie stinks up the theater
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| Disaster Movie stinks up the theater
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by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
Disaster Movie
Now Playing
I feel I need to preface this review by saying that I appreciate satire, and that I regularly watch re-runs of South Park, and even argued the merits of the same show with my ex and daughter recently. So, I do have a sense of humor, and until that little voice inside that tells you something is wrong kicked in, I did laugh a little at the newest spoof movie from the team of Jason Friedberg and Alan Seltzer (Meet the Spartans and Scary Movie). And there are a few funny moments in Disaster Movie. A few. Then the scatological humor, the pregnancy jokes, the homophobic "jokes," and anti-Trans "jokes" wear thin.
The movie is of the same formula as the other moneymaking schlocky movies Friedman and Seltzer keep doing, in that it weaves a very weak (think non-existent) storyline around a bunch of big budget films. Lanced are Juno, Cloverfield (that one actually did make me laugh), Prince Caspian, and Batman, to name a few - even my fave, South Park gets a wink and nod, with a grisly death of one of the actors and the familiar tag line that ends with "you bastards!" Still, even this only gleaned a smile from most of the screening audience, who didn't laugh at most of the movie's jokes (except for a rather rowdy group in the back of the theater).
The filmmakers seem to think that a few poo jokes, some pubescent sexual innuendo, and lots of homophobic comments make for a good movie, but one hopes the public won't keep buying this crap. Unfortunately, like the other ones, this one will probably make a ton of cash for its makers, thus guaranteeing more of the same. But, if I were you, dear reader, I'd pass on this disaster, unless of course you like watching endless body fluid jokes and some of the worst acting I've seen since Battlefield Earth, which made most of the free screening audience make an exodus from the theater.
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