Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9083 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-06-11
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 82 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
By dint of the inexplicable popularity of their send-up of movie genres in the parody movies Scary Movie and Date Movie, writer/director duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer probably got an epic-sized bucket of cash for this hastily stitched pastiche of drive-by entertainment. There's no particular variety of movie they were sent to send up this time, unless big box-office grossers has now become a genre in and of itself. If so, Epic Movie may well qualify as part of that league itself. Very little expense has been spared to make so-called "comic" references to a slew of mostly recent blockbusters--The Chronicles of Narnia, Borat, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the X-Men and Harry Potter series, Superman Returns, Nacho Libre, and The Da Vinci Code to name a few--and it's assumed we've seen them all.

In a goofy thread of a story about four orphans plucked from some of the above, battle must be done through various bastardized plots from same so that a prophecy can be fulfilled and they can assume their rightful place as rulers of a sacred land. Lots of crotch kicks, fart, urine, and vomit jokes speed by as we pass through Willie Wonka's factory and a magical wardrobe with an unusually interesting assortment of look-alikes and name actors caught up in the gag mix (some of it legitimately funny). Darrell Hammond, Crispin Glover, David Carradine, Kevin McDonald, Carmen Electra, Kal Penn put on game (and sometimes gamy) faces, and it's definitely a hoot to watch comedy improv alums Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge as Aslo the Lion and the White Bitch do battle in a Narnian good vs. evil character smackdown. As lame as you already expect a movie like this to be, anything that can throw together an homage to C.S. Lewis alongside MTV's Punk'd in less than 90 minutes can't be all bad. --Ted Fry

Synopsis
From Jason Friedberg and Aaron Setzer (DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE) comes this everything-in-the-kitchen-sink, blender-set-to-grind comedy, which pokes fun at big crowd-pleasers like WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, SNAKES ON A PLANE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, X-MEN, NACHO LIBRE, and THE DA VINCI CODE, among others. The loose plot involves a gang of teen orphans whose trip inside Wonka’s candy factory leads them to a Narnia-style wardrobe adventure. Jennifer Coolidge is the evil White Bitch they have to tangle with in this new land, and Fred Willard plays Aslo, the lion. Scene-stealing Crispin Glover plays the Wonka-be, David Carradine breakdances, and the vivacious Carmen Elektra morphs enticingly in her X-MEN-style blue body paint. A bevy of eerie look-alikes pose as Paris Hilton, Anna Paquin, Samuel Jackson, and P Diddy, among others. Of course there’s raunch a-plenty to keep the MTV generation of all ages amused. The jokes come so fast that no one need worry if a gag here falls flat: another one is right behind to jump on its back.

Customer Reviews

There are no words to describe how awful this movie is.
There are various uses you could put this DVD to if you purchased it.
- Need an unusual, fun but cheap mug coaster? The disc should be removed from the packaging - print out a photograph and cut it to the shape of the DVD - now you have a coaster with a picture on it, ideal to get those party conversations going.
- Need a ransom note? There are some unusual fonts used in the packaging - the letters could be cut out and pasted onto any commonly used untraceable A4 paper to issue your demands without leaving incriminating handwriting
- Loose DVD's lying around, getting scratched? The DVD cover used for this movie could be recycled to use for other discs. Simply draw on a paper a suitable design and text, and insert into the outer plastic sleeve to complete the effect.

However, under no circumstances, ever watch this movie. It is execrable, having no redeeming features whatsoever... not a single laugh, not even a sly grin passed my lips during the entire proceedings.
Why do moviemakers feel that simply copying sections or performances from other movies but with cheaper actors and ending in a fart or a fleeting glimpse of breasts actually passes for satire??
For the record, if you care, the movies copied here are almost entirely Chronicles of Narnia, with a little of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and one character from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Avoid.
Like the plague.

Yet another boring film
(Yawn) Epic Movie is less epic and more...more...er, well whatever the opposite of epic is anyway. Only around ten minutes of the film is even remotely worth watching. For example seeing Jack Sparrow spoofed into Jack Swallows, and the harry potter scene. Otherwise generally a film to be avoided. If you hated Date Movie, then you will hate Epic Movie even more.

The worst film ever made. Ever. Really
Where's the button for 'no stars'?
When Brazil won the World Cup for the third time, they let them keep the trophy. Similarly, the trophy for "Worst Film Ever Made" should be given in perpetuity to the makers of this jaw-droppingly awful drivel, because the competition is now closed forever. It simply isn't possible to make a worse film than this. "Epic Movie" is so brainless, it makes Dude, Where's My Car? look as intellectual as The Seventh Seal. Mind you, it's so humourless it makes The Seventh Seal seem as funny as Dude, Where's My Car?.
It's not just that it's insultingly unfunny (though it certainly is), this film is also thoroughly inept. They say that the people involved had made movies before, but I'm not convinced. My 12-year-old found it puerile and obvious. My 14-year-old squirmed in discomfort. Apart from the competent cinematography, everything about this film is bad.
The story starts as Charlie & The Chocolate Factory but then lurches into The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, only with moronic young adults instead of children to allow for ruder 'jokes'. It's too lazy to parody several films but not imaginative enough to parody just one, making the plot uncomfortably unbalanced. Actors impersonating characters from other movies wander in and out, gurning at the camera and hoping that their mere presence will make their cameos funny. They aren't. How about a joke or two?
There have been bad films before, but even those dreadful B-movies of yesteryear (Plan 9 From Outer Space and Faster Pussycat... Kill! Kill! spring to mind) had some camp charm that meant you could enjoy their badness. 'Epic Movie' is not just charmless and unfunny: it's also quite unpleasant to watch.