Epic Movie (2007)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Directors:

Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer

Writers (WGA):

Jason Friedberg (written by) &
Aaron Seltzer (written by)

Release Date:

26 January 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

We Know It's Big. We Measured.

Plot:

A comedic satire of films that are large in scope, reputation and popularity

Plot Keywords:

White Bitch | Factory | Pirate | Orphan | Mutant

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Kal Penn	...	Edward
Adam Campbell	...	Peter
Jennifer Coolidge	...	White Bitch
Jayma Mays	...	Lucy
Faune A. Chambers	...	Susan (as Faune Chambers)
Crispin Glover	...	Willy
Tony Cox	...	Bink
Héctor Jiménez	...	Mr. Tumnus (as Hector Jimenez)
Darrell Hammond	...	Captain Jack Swallows
Carmen Electra	...	Mystique
Fred Willard	...	Aslo
David Carradine	...	Museum Curator
Kevin McDonald	...	Harry Potter
George Alvarez	...	Ron
Crista Flanagan	...	Hermoine

Also Known As:

Bob Bailey (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence.

Runtime:

86 min | 93 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-13 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #43041) | Spain:18 | Norway:11 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:12 | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:M18 (unrated version) | Portugal:M/12 | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:15 (video release) | Germany:12 (also unrated version) | South Korea:18 (unrated version) | New Zealand:M

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Regency Pictures

Trivia:

Crispin Glover plays Willy, a spoof of Johnny Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Glover and Depp previously worked together on two films; What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Dead Man (1995).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Willy has his arms around the children, you can see the top of his walking stick on the right. In the next shot, it's on the left.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: This is the story of four orphans brought together by fate. They didn't know it yet, but there was something more greater in store for them, something epic.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Soundtrack:

He's Willy

This thing won't let me vote below a 1....

After watching this movie, I just couldn't stop talking about it. Mind you, not in the sense that someone can't stop talking about a great book or show, but more along the line of how someone can't stop talking about their colonoscopy during a diner conversation. In other words, after seeing this you can't help but try and remove the stain it left on your very soul by vomiting out the experience onto others.

This movie entered with the tag line of being "written by two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'!" What they forgot to mention is that the two who wrote it were only responsible for writing the credits and all the jokes deleted for the sake of not causing mass suicide. Put more delicately, this movie almost makes Pootie Tang look Oscar worthy, which ironically enough was made fun of in the last Scary Movie for being horrid. Coincidence? Yeah, not even some sort of Karma dealing fiend would wish this movie upon the world.

"So," you ask, "What makes it so bad?" I bet your thinking that all of the funny stuff was in the previews, right? No, actually there was no funny content in the previews at all, it just seemed that way when taken out of the context of the movie. Much the same way "Hogan's Heroes" was funny to people who weren't in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the previews are funny to those who haven't seen the movie. When you actually see the movie, you start to ask, "Why was that funny in the preview?" The answer: You can see pretty flowers if you ignore the fact that they are growing from the corpse of a man who died during a freak green house accident.

Do yourself a favor, rent a History channel documentary on the history of documentaries and hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It'll be twice as funny, make three times more sense, and be only a fifth as painful.