I'll have to admit, watching this movie the first time, there were some quick laughs, and it caught my attention. Sometimes, I feel the jokes were drawn out way too long, and that's a shame. If I were a 14 or 15 year old, I'd probably give this all 5 stars. This definitely isn't a movie in which you can watch over and over again. When you're bored, or strung out from the job, or the weekly grind is just too much and you want to let loose for a brief moment, go ahead. Otherwise, this movie is dime a dozen, in the ranks of The Comebacks, Epic Movie, etc etc etc.
Not only does this movie suck completely, it doesn't abide by the rules of how to make a good spoof at all. There was ONE scene where I laughed, and that was the "Ugly Betty" scene. Epic Movie was very poorly made, yet it had a few laugh-out-loud moments. Did I enjoy Date Movie at all? No. Neither did I enjoy this.
These are the rules of making a good spoof:
1. Be timely. A joke about Ellen in Mr. Wrong??????????
2. If trying to be offensive, be funny too. An accident-prone protagonist in Superhero Movie was funny, assaulting a Spartan kid with many heavyweight objects is not.
3. Widen your humor sources when cracking the odd joke. Go everywhere, don't stay on the same topic just with different words.
4. Be subtle when making a spoof. Not everything has to be uncalled for.
5. Don't go outside the genre you're spoofing. American Idol? Shrek? Casino Royale? Really??????
And lastly...
6. DON'T EXPLAIN EVERY SINGLE SOURCE MATERIAL AND RIFF. If you have to explain everything (Scary Movie 4 was brilliant because it only did this once), chances are it's not funny.
MTS doesn't do any of this, it just does the exact opposite. There's no plot (or so to speak), it's too unfunny to be a comedy, too spoofy to be a spoof, and overall, too unsubtle to be a comedy in the first place.
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Unbearable.
All that needs to be said. Complete trash. I'm not sure at what point, pop-culture references became funny just by themselves. I guy dressed up like Sanjaya from American Idol pops out of nowhere and they kick him into a pit. Then the 3 person American Idol panel. Britney Spears and K-fed.
There's no setup. There's no nothing. If this is what has come of hollywood spoof comedies... I'm done... and now that we've seen a long string of these comedic failures pour out into the theatres and people actually pay for them... legitimizing them... we'll probably see more. It's a sad day in Hollywood.
Thousands of scripts are written every year that should be funded and produced before trash like this. When a supposed comedy does nothing but make this viewer angry... it's awful.
Everyone should be offended that cheap, brainless, here's a pop-culture reference and here's another type movies are being produced like MEET THE SPARTANS. We deserve better from people who are making millions hand over fist and can only come up with DATE MOVIE, EPIC MOVIE, LITTLE MAN, WHITE CHICKS and MEET THE SPARTANS.
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In my 40 something years on this earth, and being a big fan and viewer of hundreds of comedies over the years, I honestly have to say this movie really, really sucks the big one!!! I did not even once come close to grinning at any point of this waste of film. I could not believe the level of crappiness this movie sunk to. The makers of this film, the actors, and whomever played a part in this movies production should be embarassed of themselves. Not even the slightest bit creative or funny in any way! I am just sorry I wasted time watching this piece of crap!
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When parody movies (Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Scary Movie) started coming out, it was funny. Sure, these movies were cheesy, but way more enjoyable than this dreck.
This movie is littered with too many pop culture references. Rather than putting in real jokes and genuinely creative/funny situations, they chose to focus on making fun of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Kobe, Britney Spears, Americsn Idol, and so on and so forth. Over ans over and over, especially with Paris Hilton. There were also a lot of product placements (ex. Subway sandwiches)
I unde4rstand this is a parody film and is not meant to be historically accurate. Which is just fine with me. But the pop references and product placement, along with some really stupid/gross/tasteless bits (like what the penguin did in Leonidas' mouth, or what the dog did to Leonidas in the James Bond scene) make for a movie that, instead of delivering good laughs, falls flat on its face due to being bogged down with all of these references instead of classic or real comedy bits and jokes. Many of the 'jokes' in this movie were also really milked and pushed too far, such as the scene where Leonidas pushes people into the pit. It was funny at first, but then he kept pushing more and more and MORE people into the pit and it just stopped being funny.
Just about the only thing I liked about this movie was Kevin Sorbo's appearance.
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