| Epic Movie (Unrated Edition) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Actors: Kal Penn, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Adam Campbell, Jayma Mays
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 3890
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2243868D
UPC: 024543438618
EAN: 0024543438618
ASIN: B000O76ZOO
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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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 Epic Movie Extras 
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/14/2008 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Ur
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 The worst movie I have ever seen January 28, 2007
38 out of 56 found this review helpful
About five months ago I wrote a review on this site saying that "Date movie" was the stupidest movie I had ever seen. That is no longer true, as "Epic movie" has just taken the trophy for that award in my opinion. I found it so hard to sit through this movie, 80 minutes felt like an eternity.
Please, please, please DO NOT see this movie. It will only encourage movie studios to put out more tripe like this in the future. You may be asking then "why did I go see this movie?". Well in my defence, I was dragged along... I knew I was in for a shocker but nothing prepared me for just how bad it was going to be. Sadly, that is an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back.
I wish I could give this movie 0 stars.
a complete waste of celluloid March 4, 2007
37 out of 53 found this review helpful
*1/2
As movie parodies go, "Epic Movie" is an aggressively unfunny hodgepodge of such recent movie blockbusters as "The Chronicles of Narnia," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "The Da Vinci Code," "Pirates of the Caribbean," "X-Men" and even "Snakes on a Plane" (despite its decidedly "un-epic" nature), most of them not really worth mimicking in the first place. The makers of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong" must be counting their blessings that their respective works were, for some unaccountable reason, deemed unworthy for inclusion in the epic movie canon.
"Epic Movie" lacks even the sporadic laughs of its "Scary Movie" predecessors, with each and every joke and sight gag contained herein landing with a resounding thud the moment it arrives on screen. At least those who made the film were somehow able to resist the temptation of including what would have been the ten millionth "Brokeback Mountain" parody in their repertoire. Let's at least give credit where credit is due.
It's willy, it's willy, it's willy, willy awful. May 15, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This movie is about four adult orphans: Peter the Heroic, Susan the Just, Edward the Loyal, and Lucy the Dumb S**t. The movie begins with Lucy (Jayma Mays) in a spoof of The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) finding her golden ticket. It then moves to Edward (Kal Penn) in a spoof of Nacho Libre Nacho Libre (Special Collector's Edition) getting his golden ticket. We then move to Susan (Faune A. Chambers) in her spoof of Snakes on a plane Snakes on a Plane (Full Screen Edition) acquiring her golden ticket. Finally we meet Peter (Adam Campbell) in his spoof of X-Men X-Men (Widescreen Edition).
With the four golden tickets in hand, the orphans begin their adventure at ... you guessed it! A spoof of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition) The story goes from there to spoof The Chronicles of Narnia, Superman Returns, Harry Potter, and Pirates of the Caribbean ... Among others. Throughtout the movie, you'll chuckle at a few jokes here and there, but nothing that'll make milk pour from your nose. Epic Movie falls right in line with all the other spoof movies - a few well placed jokes, some poor spoofing, and bad acting. Would I recommend it? If you like these types of movies, I would. If not, I'd skip it.
Sucks like a five-pound leech. June 21, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is perhaps officially THE worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of viewing. Uncreative and dull, Epic Movie does nothing more than throw distasteful gags and humorless jests to the screen, hoping that the mess will somehow stick. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Don't bother with this stinker. Try Pirates or Borat! instead.
0/5
As bad as you might expect June 18, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Nobody goes into a movie like this thinking they will see great art, but I was hoping for at least a modicum of cleverness and originality. I didn't find it here. This movie just isn't very funny, not even in a stupid, toilet humor kind of way. I also thought it a bit weird that the main film parodied was "The Chronicles of Narnia," a film I'm sure many little kids saw. There is no way an 8 year old should see this movie. There is way too much sexual innuendo for that. I'm sure some of the target audience for this movie saw "Narnia," but I think it would have made more sense to parody the "Lord of the Rings" films, since they are geared for an older audience. I can think of a lot of stupid movies that are genuinely funny, but this isn't one of them.
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