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CINEMA: Spoiled Spoof
A scene from Disaster Movie.
DISASTER MOVIE directed By Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Starring Matt Lanter, Vannessa Minnillo, Kim Kardashian, G. Thang, Nicole Parker and Carmen Electra
THE title of Hollywood’s latest spoof, Disaster Movie, says it all.
It actually takes some effort to stay put in the cinema hall till the end of the show.
From the same filmmakers who brought us Scary Movie and Epic Movie, this movie barely has a story. It spoofs everything from Hannah Montana to High School Musical to Beowulf and even Justin Timberlake, but in a fragmented format.
It mostly concerns Will, played by Matt Lanter, having a dream that the world is going to end on Aug 29 of this year.
Taking parts of Cloverfield and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as its base, the movie starts from 10,001 BC, when a caveman falls into a giant dinosaur dung, then gets bailed up by a buck-toothed, tattooed singer a.k.a. the talented, but troubled, Amy Winehouse.
Sadly, none of this mixing results in anything remotely funny.
When Will wakes up from his dream, he throws a superduper sweet sixteen party, even though he’s 28.
At the birthday function are pregnant teen friend Juno, best buddy Calvin played by G. Thang and his lady Lisa played by sexy Kim Kardashian.
Without warning, the city is pummelled by asteroids, sending Will and his friends out into the streets where they run into an ice storm, a twister, an earthquake and other natural disasters.
Along the way, when he discovers Lisa is trapped in the local museum, Will vows to save her, as well as the planet of course. He must use the mystic powers of the legendary Crystal Skull to do so.
Through it all there are only two funny moments.
One comes when they run into the Enchanted Princess played by Nicole Parker. Her fairy tale look at the world, often accompanied by her singing, is explained as being the result of taking loads of wonderful mind-altering drugs.
The other funny moment is a jab at High School Musical.
The film is also populated with impersonations of people in the news but who are so badly impersonated that they require an introduction like “look everyone, it’s Jessica Simpson”.
There are also appearances from every superhero, from Ironman to Incredible Hulk to Hancock, unspeakably clunky musical numbers and lots of scenes in which women get smacked in the face but don’t die immediately.
I gave up trying to work out all the movies, celebrities and television shows being spoofed. You have to be media literate to get this movie and brain-dead to enjoy it.
Perhaps the most decent aspect of the movie is how current it manages to be.
But ultimately it ends up being a tedious movie-going experience.
New Straits Times
Free Tickets To Disaster Movie
IN conjunction with the release of the comedy movie Disaster Movie, please be reminded that redemption to the Ram Entertainment/New Straits Times’ free movie today (at 9pm) begins at 7pm onwards at a special counter at GSC Mid Valley in Kuala Lumpur.
The movie stars Matt Lanter (CSI, Heroes), Vanessa Minnillo (F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer), Carmen Electra (Epic Movie, Date Movie) and Kim Kardashian (Deep in the Valley).
Don’t forget to bring along your cut-out coupon (printed in Life & Times last Friday (Oct 3) to redeem two passes each. There are 180 passes to be given out.
Note: Disaster Movie is rated 18PL. Coupon redemption is on a first-come, first-served basis.
New Straits Times
Cinema: When Everything’s Going Wrong - And You’Re Laughing
Disaster Movie pokes fun at celebrities and movies.
Be among our lucky readers who get to watch Disaster Movie for free. Get your movie passes from the print edition of the New Straits Times of October 3.
IN the upcoming comedy Disaster Movie, the filmmaking team behind the hits Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most costly movie genres of all time - the disaster film.
It follows the comic misadventures of a group of 20-somethings during one fateful night as every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works - hit their path.
The spoof comedy stars Matt Lanter (CSI, Heroes), Vanessa Minnillo (F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer), Carmen Electra (Epic Movie, Date Movie) and Kim Kardashian (Deep in the Valley).
It all starts with a bizarre nightmare of Will’s (Matt Lanter) about a mysterious crystal skull predicting the end of the world. Armed with his father’s fedora and bullwhip, he begins his quest to find the skull and solve the mysteries.
Taking aim at everything and everyone, from films like Indiana Jones and Iron Man to celebrities including Amy Winehouse and Miley Cyrus, pop culture phenomenon Sex and the City and High School Musical, Disaster Movie doesn’t hold things back.
The film is written, directed and produced by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, with Peter Safran as a co-producer.
It will start screening from Thursday.
“Every possible disaster you can think of - both natural and man-made - that can occur in a day are included in the film,” said Friedberg.
“There is nothing too sacrosanct to poke fun at, be it a weather catastrophe or an egoistic individual. Everything is fair game,” he added.
The film opens with a parody of 10,000 BC by depicting a dim-witted prehistoric man running for his life from a dinosaur.
While trying to escape, he runs into Winehouse, whom he mistakes for a sabre-tooth tiger. She drunkenly removes a laptop from her beehive hairdo to check her Facebook profile.
Other outrageous spoofs include the cast breaking into a High School Musical-like performance and Cyrus in Hannah Montana being killed by a falling asteroid.
Said Lanter: “This is my first spoof movie, which I’ve always wanted to do, having grown up on movies like Hot Shots and the Naked Guns. They’re my favourite movies of all time. This is a dream come true.”
As for Electra, she felt lucky to be able to work with Aaron and Jason again.
“I’ve worked with them before on several occasions and so feel really comfortable doing this movie.”
NST/DISASTER MOVIE PASSES
WE are giving away 180 passes to New Straits Times readers to catch Disaster Movie on Tuesday (9pm) at GSC Mid Valley in Kuala Lumpur.
Cut out this coupon and exchange it for two passes to the movie. Only original coupons will be accepted.
Redemption is on Thursday itself from 7pm at a special counter at GSC Mid Valley. One person is limited to a maximum of six passes (i.e. three coupon cutouts).
Note: Disaster Movie is rated 18PL and coupons are redeemed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
New Straits Times