Disaster Movie

Disaster Movie is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. It stars Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Gary "G Thang" Johnson, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker, Ike Barinholtz, Carmen Electra, Tony Cox, and Kim Kardashian in her feature film debut.
It Is Released In August 29 2008, The Film Is Worse Than Other Films Like Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie, & Date Movie.
==Plot==
In the year 10,001 B.C., a caveman runs away from a predator through a plain and immediately gets into a fight with Wolf (Ike Barinholtz). After defeating him, the caveman then encounters the predator, a saber-toothed, gasoline-drinking Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker), who informs him that the world will end on August 29, 2008 and that their fate lies in a Crystal Skull. The sequence is then revealed to be a dream of everyman Will (Matt Lanter) in the present day. He then finds out that his girlfriend Amy (Vanessa Minnillo) is having an affair with Flavor Flav (Abe Spigner), and she breaks up with Will because he is not admitting his true feelings for her.
Later that day, Will has a "Super Duper Sweet Sixteen" party at his house, despite being 25. The guests include Juney (Crista Flanagan), Dr. Phil (John Di Domenico), Will's best friend Calvin (Gary "G Thang" Johnson), and Anton Chigurh (Barinholtz), among others. During the party, Amy arrives with her new boyfriend, a Calvin Klein underwear model. The party then comes to a halt when the room shakes and the lights go out. A bulletin on the radio claims there is a meteor shower and it is the end of the world. Soon after, the city starts to freeze over, and Will, Juney, Calvin, and Calvin's girlfriend Lisa (Kim Kardashian) retreat to a garage for shelter. When Juney mentions that the calamities are caused by global warming, Will realizes his dream about Amy Winehouse could be related. Later, Will is chided by the others for not committing himself to his relationship with Amy.
The gang leaves the garage and Will gets a call from Amy, where he admits his feelings for her before the call is dropped. He decides to go to rescue Amy. Lisa is later killed by a meteor. While the others comfort a distraught Calvin, Giselle (Parker), a prostitute, climbs out of a manhole and gets hit by a taxi. Calvin catches her, and they immediately fall in love with each other. Giselle's pimp, Prince Edwin (Tad Hilgenbrink), challenges Calvin to a dance fight for her love, but a tornado appears and Prince Edwin escapes. Iron Man (Gerrard Fachinni), Hellboy (Barinholtz), and the Hulk (Roland Kickinger) attempt to fight it, but all are defeated by cows thrown by the tornado. After taking shelter, Will, Juney, Calvin, and Giselle encounter rabid knockoffs of Alvin and the Chipmunks, who attack the gang and kill Juney. The "Chipmunks" then go after Will and Calvin, but they trap them in a trash can, fatally suffocating them as they attempt to escape.
On their way to the museum where Amy is trapped, the group runs into Batman, who informs them that they must go to evacuation buses and that there will be no chance of survival if they go to save Amy. With time against them, Princess Giselle kills Speed Racer (Jared S. Eddo), and the group hijacks his Mach Five to drive to the museum. At the museum, they save Amy, who reveals that the Crystal Skull is the only thing that can stop the end of the world. Calvin and the Princess then find that the museum doors are closed and all of the artifacts have come alive, including Po from Kung Fu Panda (Yoshio Iizuka), who fights Calvin but is defeated. When Calvin makes out with the Princess, Calvin accidentally pulls her wig and discovers that she is actually a transvestite. While this happens, "Po" takes out a katana and kills Calvin and the Princess.
Meanwhile, Will and Amy run into a nude Beowulf (Barinholtz), who fights with Will. Amy then stabs “Beowulf” in the back, killing him. After "Beowulf" is defeated, Will and Amy encounter Indiana Jones (Tony Cox), who is revealed to be Will's father. "Indy" tries to put the Crystal Skull on the altar, but he flys through a stained glass window in the room. Will does it instead, and he averts further destruction. Will and Amy have a wedding ceremony performed by "The Guru Shitka" (Domenico), it then goes to a extensive musical number about all of the characters dating each other parodying "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" by Sarah Silverman. The film ends with the "Chipmunks" getting crushed to death by a falling cow
==Why It Sucks==
#The film was not screened in advance for critics, which is always a major red flag.
#It's filled to the brim with gross-out jokes, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, transphobic jokes, sex jokes and fart jokes. An example is the Amy Winehouse parody burping and not stopping for a very long time (it's even longer in the Unrated Cut).
#Speaking of which, the unrated cut of the film, known as the "Cataclysmic Edition", is just as bad as the original cut, possibly worse. It just has more rear nudity, more sex references, more unfunny jokes, and more swearing (there are at least 50 F-bombs in the unrated edition).
#Multiple out-of-place cameos, especially from Michael Jackson (a year before his death), Justin Timberlake or any other celebrity that was popular back in 2008.
#Awful acting that can even ruin a somewhat funny scene, especially from Kim Kardashian.
#Terrible and unlikable characters: Will is your bland and uninteresting action hero, Amy is a generic forced romantic interest, Calvin is a token African American guy who is irritatingly unfunny, always says perverted stuff and behaves uncomfortably and passive-aggressively, and Juney (a parody of Juno MacGuff) is an annoying character because she only speaks in teenage hipster lingo.
#Airplane! already did the film's concept decades earlier and way better.
#The setting has no dark atmosphere to the end of the world and it looks really fake, much like Friedberg and Seltzer's other movies.
#The story is horrendous and the film isn't really invested with its world's end plotline and wants to shoehorn sketches that have nothing to do with the apocalypse, such as the "dance battle" scene.
#The pacing is horrific and sluggish. Despite the film being only 87 minutes long, some of the scenes feel like they drag on for a very long time. The longest the film can go without making a new reference is 4 minutes and 20 seconds!
#The humor is very limited, merely being based on popular films of 2007 or 2008 and toilet humor.
#Several continuity errors. For example in one scene, Amy gets a facial cut but in the next scene it disappears with no explanation.
#Too many pop-culture references. In one scene where Juney and Paulie are talking, both Facebook and eBay are referred by their actual names, even though they are shown with parody names on screen (Facenook and uPay).
#It has some really stupid ideas including rabid and monstrous chipmunks who are parodies of Alvin and the Chipmunks and an evil Kung Fu Panda (a parody of Po from Kung Fu Panda).
#Speaking of Alvin and Chipmunks and Kung Fu Panda, their costumes and/or puppets are horrible and hideous to look at, especially the Kung Fu Panda costume, which has horrendous lip-syncing.
#Considering the title of the movie, one would assume that it would knock on Hollywood disaster films where virtually every conceivable threat has been conjured with the exception of droughts (though that's a drama situation), the only "disaster" movie mentioned is 1996's Twister and the cliché "cow in tornado" bit.
#*Fun fact: In Brazil, the film is titled Super-Heróis: A Liga da Injustiça (Portuguese for "Super Heroes: The Injustice League"), even though the film is supposed to be a "parody" of the disaster film genre, not the superhero genre.
#* And to make matters worse, some of the movies that were parodied, like Hancock, Wanted, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Kung Fu Panda, had not been released when this film's script was written.
#The film's parody of Disney's Enchanted was completely useless because Enchanted was already a parody itself; it mocks the animated fairy tale movies that Disney used to produce.
#The Austin Powers parody was also completely useless as Austin Powers itself was already a parody movie; it mocks the James Bond series.
#Abysmal songs, including one about getting an abortion and another one about how dating is basically sex. The "I'm Dating" (or "I'm Fucking") song is total rip off of the "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" comedy song by Sarah Silverman. During the song, the "Beautiful Assassin" (a parody of Fox from Wanted) refers to Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men "as the Mexican", even though the character is mostly likely European while the actor Javier Bardem is from Spain, not Mexico.
#* What makes things worse is that this film is not supposed to be a musical!
#The original music score by Christopher Lennertz is very bland. When the score is trying to support the apocalyptic setting, it doesn't even have that over-theatrical and melodramatic orchestral style that Hollywood disaster films have.
#Poor special effects. For example, when the Enchanted Princess is shooting Speed Racer repeatedly with a pistol, you can see that the slide on her pistol doesn't move.
#The film's Japanese poster is misleading since it shows a Tyrannosaurus skeleton grabbing Carrie Bradshow, even though it doesn't appear in the movie whatsoever and despite the fact that the T. rex had 3-foot (1 meter) long forelimbs with only two fingers. The American poster is misleading too as it shows the Mack Five from Speed Racer in a tornado, but however, that never happens in the movie.
#Awful ending. As mentioned in the plot, some of the characters sing about dating (fucking in the Unrated Cut).
#Poor audio editing. During the aforementioned "I'm Dating" song, Batman's guitar begins to play before the shot switches over to Batman.
#Some of the movies, like Alvin and the Chipmunks (live action series) and The Love Guru, are already terrible movies. What made them think that parody horrible movies would make this one good?
#The costumes for Batman and Iron Man aren't good and look like cheap Halloween costumes. Iron Man looks more "Plastic Man" and Batman's costume has wonky ears for no apparent reason. Has he been in fight or something?
#Really stupid, unrealistic and sometimes vulgar names, like "The Guru Shitka".
#Blatant product placement for Calvin Klein and Apple.
==Redeeming Qualities==
#Some of the costumes are pretty good, like the Enchanted Princess' costume, the costumes for the Sex and the City girls, and Ike Barinholtz does a decent performance as a parody Hellboy.
#The "HeadOn" joke is pretty funny.
# "Friends Forever" is actually pretty catchy, despite the bad lyrics.
#Since the film received disastrous reviews, we can at least say it lives up to its title.
==Parodies==
===Movies & TV Shows===
*10,000 BC (2008)
*American Gladiators (2008)
*Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
*Flavor of Love (2006-2008)
*My Super Sweet 16 (2005-2008)
*Superbad (2007)
*Wanted (2008)
*​No Country for Old Men (2007)
*Juno (2007)
*High School Musical (2006)
*Cloverfield (2008)
*The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
*Hannah Montana (2006-2011)
*Hancock (2008)
*Sex and the City (1998-2004)
*Sex and the City (2008)
*You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
*Jumper (2008)
*The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
*Enchanted (2007)
*Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
*Twister (1996)
*Iron Man (2008)
*Hellboy (2004)
*The Incredible Hulk 
*Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
*Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
*The Shining (1980)
*HeadOn (2006 commercial)
*The Dark Knight (2008)
*Speed Racer (2008)
*Night at the Museum (2006)
*Beowulf (2007)
*Kung Fu Panda (2008)
*The Love Guru (2008)
===Real-Life People===
*Amy Winehouse †
*Justin Timberlake
*Jessica Simpson
*Phil McGraw
*Michael Jackson †
==Reception==
===Box office===
The film grossed over $34.8 million against a budget of $20 million. Making it a box office bomb and the first unsucessful film from Friedberg and Seltzer.
===Critical response===
The film was universally and heavily panned when it came out. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 1% approval rating based on 73 reviews with an average rating of 1.8/10. The site's critical consensus says "Returning to their seemingly bottomless well of flatulence humor, racial stereotypes, and stale pop culture gags, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have produced what is arguably their worst movie yet." The movie also has a 1.9/10 on IMDb, and, as of October 13, 2018, tops the site's Bottom Rated Movies list. It also has a 15% on Metacritic based on 12 critics and an F from Cinemascore.
===Awards===
The film got nominated for six Razzie Awards (Worst Picture for Friedberg and Seltzer, Worst Supporting Actress for Electra, Worst Supporting Actress for Kardashian, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, Worst Director for Friedberg and Seltzer, and Worst Screenplay for Friedberg and Seltzer), but all lost to The Love Guru, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King, and Postal. It however won a Golden Schmoes Awards for Worst Movie.
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