Epic Movie (Unrated Edition) | 
| 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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Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 20595
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, 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)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D2243868D
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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 very funny May 15, 2009
Helene Haviland
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
no matter what anyone else says this movie is very funny and will always b one of my favs so basically no negitive stuff will count
 Worst movie ever??? April 29, 2009
... (Montreal)
Is this the worst movie ever filmed? Actually... I think the answer is yes. Not funny, not clever, and not worth the plastic the DVD is printed on. This movie's about as much fun as a dental visit followed by a colonoscopy, and it's a testament to my determination and willpower that I actually made it to the end of the movie (divided into two parts... one sitting was simply too much for the brain to take). All I can say is... wow. This is a zero star movie.
GLAD I DID'NT SEE THIS AT THE THEATRE... I WOULD HAVE LEFT... January 13, 2009
Movie Monger (PARTS UNKNOWN)
First of all, if you want to see FUNNY, rent or buy Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, Waiting, or Dumb and Dumber...
I was flipping through channels on cable and this was on HBO or SHOWTIME and for some odd reason I tried to watch a bit of it. What's the deal with HBO showing all the 1-Star films anyhow? This is actually worse than Scary Movie 4, which I walked out of at the theater. This should be considered "straight to DVD garbage". Putting it on DVD at all is a crime!
THERE SHOULD BE A NATIONWIDE THEATER BOYCOTT (OF THIS TYPE OF MOVIE) WHEN THE NEXT ONE OF THESE UN-INTELLIGENT LOWBROW CRAP MOVIES COMES OUT! ALL THEY DO IS COPY SCENES FROM OTHER MOVIES AND TRY TO MAKE JOKES FROM THEM. THINK OF YOUR OWN MOVIE, OR STOP MAKING THEM!
HERE'S AN IDEA "UN-FUNNY MOVIE" OR "STUPID MOVIE"... PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!
at least it's short November 19, 2008
D. K. Stokes
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Epic Movie is a spoof movie. Like Scary Movie (which I've seen) or Date Movie (which I haven't). It contains send-ups, with look-alike actors, of movies as diverse as Snakes on a Plane and Chronicles of Narnia, as well as Nacho Libre, Pirates of the Caribbean, The DaVinci Code, X-Men, etc., etc.
It was fun identifying the movies being spoofed, and, as with all satire, laughing at things that were originally serious, but taken out of context, or shown in a different light, or exaggerated, are funny as heck.
I like satire. In my opinion, though, the only reason for satire (or a spoof, or even a remake) is to add something to the original. Sarcasm, satire, spoofs... done well, they highlight the ridiculous in something serious. And in doing so, you see the original material differently, and maybe even appreciate it more.
However, several of the movies being spoofed were funny or even silly to begin with. There's not a lot of point in making a joke out of something that's already a joke. The originals were much funnier, and simply repeating the joke or dumbing it down didn't shed any light on them.
Also, the original material was so diverse that there wasn't a coherent story, or even a coherent concept.
Plus, it was short. Really short. I didn't even finish my popcorn.
If you really like movies, avoid this at any cost!!!!!!! October 6, 2008
Etienne Brousseau (Montreal, QC Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The worst comedy ever made with Date Movie, Superhero Movie, Meet The spartans... If you whant to see something really funny, go for any Chaplin or Monty Python movie, those are funny, not a spoof on other movies just because they don't have writters good enought to write something very original and funny. Avoid at all cost!
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