Who said anything about a retraction? I just wanted to know what on Earth you were talking about since the validity of your strong, potentially inflammatory statement wasn’t evident from trailers or the premise, none of the reviews I’ve read had mentioned this angle, nobody else in the thread could figure out what you were talking about, and you made no attempt to explain it yourself. It was as if you said:
“It kind of made me want to convert to Hinduism. All of the “spoofs” seemed to be based on just the trailers. I laughed once or twice, but it wasn’t really that funny.”
And the invective came from the fact that the only explanation you seemed to offer for your theory that it was written for black teens and the people who love them is that it was stupid and unfunny.
RottenTomatoes for this movie has some of the funniest review tag lines I’ve ever seen.
However, I wouldn’t put so much stock in the “experts”. Some of my favorite movies have been panned by critics (Rat Race and Little Nicky, for example), and some which I’ve hated, they’ve loved (Lost in Translation in a major way).
The Onion review has a great line regarding Crispin Glover’s appearance in the film:
‘Glover at least has an excuse for prostituting his idiosyncratic gifts for a fat studio paycheck; those self-distributed experimental films about conjoined midget twins with Down’s Syndrome aren’t going to fund themselves’
On the other hand some of MY favorite movies are highly praised by film critics, including “Lost in Translation”, one of the best films in recent years and a multiple award nominee and winner.
So one could choose to watch films which are highly praised by people whose job it is to write about cinema and films that have been honored with film awards, or one can watch widely panned and scorned movies like “Little Nicky”, “Rat Race” and “Epic Movie”.
I agree, though I’m confused by this movie’s definition of “epic.” When I think of epic movies I think of “Dr. Zhivago” and “Ben Hur” and “Lawrence of Arabia” and maybe things like “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Titanic.” Why is a movie that lampoons “Borat,” “Willy Wonka,” and “Snakes on a Plane” called “Epic Movie”??
Because the same non-creative and unfunny team that wrote the script thought up the title?
Here’s the Borat joke - they had a guy that looked like Borat. That’s it, he didn’t say anything funny or parody the film in any way. He just appeared on screen and looked like Borat.
This was the same “joke” they used throughout the movie - the “parody” of Snakes on a Plane was having a guy that acted like Samuel L Jackson; the “parody” of Pirates of the Caribbean was having a guy that acted like Jack Swallow.
Here’s another running “joke”. One of the lead characters repeated everything another character said. That’s it - they did it once, then again, and again and again and again. There wasn’t any developement or punchline - they just kept doing the same thing.
And now I’ll spoil the movie for you by telling you the funniest joke in the movie. In one sequence, for no apparent reason, the lead characters go to Hogwarts. And the actors playing Harry Potter and Hermoine and Ron are all middle-aged. And one of the main characters says, “aren’t you guys a little old to be here?”
That’s it - that was the wittiest line in the movie.
