Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Epic Movie

A complete and total waste of an hour and a half. Seriously. The only good part of the movie were SOME of the costumes. The movie took parts of Narnia, Harry Potter, Snakes on a Plane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, X-Men, Nacho Libre, MTV's Cribs, Click, some Jackie Chan moves, Flavor of Love, Borat, Star Wars, James Bond, and of course American Pie. I am sure there are more that I missed, but as I said, it was a waste of time, and I barely paid attention to it.
However, I decided to stick it out. The filming was pretty bad, although a lot of the accents were good. The costumes for the Narnia part were fairly accurate, and Chewbacca and the Storm Troopers were correct (minus Chewbacca's blue hair, of course). However, the outfits for the Charlie/Chocolate Factory were totally off (Willy Wonka looked REALLY creepy), the Oompa-Loompas were just WRONG, the shots of the entire movie were okay, could have been better, and the transitional shots were, well, practically non-existent.
One major part of the movie where it is obvious that this film is terrible, is where "Aslo" and "Silas" are fighting 'Jackie Chan style'. Aslo, played by Fred Willard, is replaced by some Asian guy, who can actually do the moves, and the shots clearly show his face, making it obvious the editor and director were not paying much attention to the shots being taken.
I was also very disappointed that Jennifer Coolidge stooped down to take this part. She played the "White Bitch" (parody of Narnia's White Witch), and, although she was amazing, as always, I still can not believe that she took this mediocre part. Within taking this part though, she reprised her role as "Stiffler's Mom". This is made self-evident by "Edward's" (Kal Penn, Harold & Kumar and now, House - he's awesome!) line, "Oh man, Stiffler's Mom!" Also, there is a shot from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, wherein "Edward" says, "I have a feeling I've been here before," and later another character calls him Kumar.
You would think that the director/producer would have tried to make some of the parodies more subtle. But then again, this movie just goes to show how terrible movie really can be.

That's the end of my review. I don't want to waste any more time on this crappy film.
So, until next time--

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