![]() There is some ingenuity to it with the various movie spoofs haphazardly placed together but beyond that and the casting of Jayma Mays and Kal Penn there is nothing to praise. Such Narrow Parody is par for the course with Seltzer and Friedberg, of course. "What this all boils down to is that "Epic Movie" is an epic failure because as spoof movies go it is unfunny. Epic Movie (2007) was first to pastiche the 2005 movie specifically, and by using Fergies 'Fergalicious' in a Willy Wonka context ended up spoofing the music video for that song too. Wonka stars Timothée Chalamet as a young version of the. Wonka is scheduled to be released on December 15, 2023, by Warner Bros. It is the fourth film in the Scary Movie franchise and parodies various epic films, including The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and The Da Vinci Code. He was the perfect person to direct the project. It's just not funny and that is probably the most memorable joke of the lot of them. Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. It all comes across as being rushed with weak gags such as Peter instead of having an amazing set of wings sprout from his back in an "X-Men" spoof has chicken wings. And sadly humour is where "Epic Movie" messes it up as whilst it's jam packed with gags which someone thought was funny it didn't once raise a smile let alone a laugh. But whilst there are other familiar faces such as Carmen Electra through to Jennifer Coolidge these are not as you would expect memorable performances.īut that is as far as praise goes because whilst in the midst of all these various movies we have a storyline which of course is there purely as a vehicle for the humour. Watching Jayma Mays of "Glee" fame giving us a complete airhead is quite fun even if it is repetitive and at least Kal Penn embraces the daftness of it all whilst maintaining a straight face. The orphans individual stories intersect when each discovers a golden ticket promising an epic adventure to be delivered by Willy, a mash-up of Wonka (Charlie. In fact whilst the cast consists of a lot of people who can pass for a famous character be it a mickey take on Captain Jack or Jareb Dauplaise giving us Nacho Libre a couple of the main stars add something to "Epic Movie". ![]() And as such whilst many of these movie references are very obvious at least there is some amusement at watching Crispin Glover doing a Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. From "The Da Vinci Code" to "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" it takes a wide spread of movies to try and make fun of. Now "Epic Movie" has one saving grace that stops it being completely devoid of any praise and that is the variety of movies which get spoofed.
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