Epic Movie

A painful regurgitation of memorable moments from recent Hollywood blockbusters, the spoof film Epic Movie is almost entirely devoid of laughs.

The most excruciating, unfunny film you'll see this year... if not your entire lifetime.

Epic in its crapness.

The gutter-brow auteurs who helped write the first Scary Movie and created Date Movie milk their lame sketch-comedy minds for yet another punishingly uninspired skewering of Hollywood hits.

Friedberg and Seltzer are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, conjuring none of the adolescent brilliance of Airplane! or even the good-natured irony of 2001's Not Another Teen Movie.

When you start thinking that the Taco Bell pitchwoman is perhaps too good for the material, you know the script has some serious problems.

Epic Movie does improve on Date Movie, but that's like saying a broken arm is better than a broken leg. Both breaks are pretty painful.

Raunchy blockbuster spoof is over the top, dumb.

It plays out like an overlong Comedy Central skit lurching for the next laugh without any remorse for the gross misfires in between.

Maybe these movies are popular, but it seems they just keep getting more inane with each variation on the theme.