We’ve seen a series of Scary Movie’s, we even received the date version, so what’s next for the genre of spoofs had to be something new, something grand, something… well, epic.
There have been plenty of huge, high grossing movies over the past few years, films that could only be made in an age where C.G.I looks better and cooler often times than real life. So a film that tries to take the best of all these and give the comedic perspective has to be epic itself, but sadly, with a cast full of no names it’s already off to a bad start.
Kal Penn, Crispin Glover, and Jennifer Coolidge make up part of the ensemble with a mix of other funny actors. The plot deals with four orphans each receiving a golden ticket to enter the bizarre world of Willy Wonka and his twisted factory filled with mulit-sized dwarfs and a river of sewage and chocolate.
Once Wonka goes bizerk which doesn’t take too long, the four find themselves hiding only to soon discover a closet which leads them into the rest of the film, an adult version of Narnia with a crazy set of more characters.
After that I was lost due to my lack of Narnia knowledge, and the plot itself is useless anyways so why am I still trying?
Now, maybe my problem was that I’m not a fan of too much that is epic, so a lot of the themes puzzled me. The Chronicles of Narnia was basically the center joke of this film, and I hadn’t yet seen it. I went into this thinking I would see more Batman, SuperMan and other men movies with more general household themes for a more universal reaction.
Instead this spoof was all over the place, it even went into a five minute montage ripping on MTV’s Cribs which I have no clue as to why that was considered epic. There were plenty more montages that made no sense and just weren’t funny anyway. The fact that it calls itself an epic movie to me is the real joke, and that really isn’t funny.
This idea was actually very good, and it should have taken its time for a more noticeable cast with more understood themes it’s making fun of. The fact that this Narnia flick was the center joke blew my mind, and I understand plenty of people saw it but it is still too new a film for epic consideration. I guess King Kong never made the cut either.
So you have a movie that really seems clueless what to joke on, and when you have a montage have it make sense rather than spoofing on random ideas. Apparently Nacho Libre and Borat are epic, so try not making fun of comedies in general, especially the ones that are funnier!
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