DIRECTED BY: JASON FRIEDBERG, AARON SELTZER
STARRING: MATT LANTER, CRISTA FLANAGAN, VANESSA MINNILLO
EVEN by their own woeful standards, this latest secretion from Hollywood piss-peddlers Jason Friedberg and Aa
ron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans) is a new low. With many of the films they've targeted still doing the rounds at cinemas– The Dark Knight, Kung Fu Panda, Iron Man – it's clear they've decided that actually watching the films being spoofed is no longer a requirement. I doubt much effort was even made to check out the trailers either, since so few of the scenes they've chosen to stage here bear any resemblance to anything actually in the films. How can an extended riff on Cloverfield fail to make a joke about the shakey camera work? And why even bother including an Indiana Jones parody when your guess about what the Crystal Skull might be isn't nearly as ludicrous as what George Lucas and Steven Spielberg actually came up with? It's shoddy stuff, made worse by its titular anomaly: though this particular series has always been random, this is the first film that doesn't actually spoof a single film from the genre its title suggests. For devolved humans only.
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