However, most parody movies struggle.
For everyAirplane!orThe Naked Gun, there’s aDisaster Movie(or three).
Enter Father Mayii (Leslie Nielsen), a bumbling priest who must exorcise the demon once again.
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This premise could have made for a goofy good time, but the finished product isn’t particularly spirited.
For all these reasons,Repossessedcurrently holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
This material is ripe for parody, butthe movie underwhelms with its gross-out humor and crude jokes.
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The only thing the movie has vaguely going for it is the energetic performances by Damon andShawn Wayans.
Even its director,Malcolm D. Lee, hasadmittedit’s “a bad movie.”
This is the skin of a killer.
Twenty years after her initial ordeal with a demonic presence, a woman again finds herself the victim of possession. This time, her fight against the supernatural is turned into a television spectacle, with an eccentric televangelist and two priests, one veteran and one novice, attempting to save her soul in a comedic battle of good versus evil.
Like its characters, this movie should never have seen the light of day.
6’The Starving Games' (2013)
“May the odds be ever in your favor.
And by favor, I mean ‘against you.'”
AsVampires Suckis toTwilight,The Starving Gamesis toThe Hunger Games(though the title is even lamer).
The film is utterly lacking in creativity, attempting to round out its runtime with filler and blooper reels.
It somehow feels overlong despite clocking in at just 82 minutes.
Much of the slog is due to the shockingly low production values, with everything looking amateurish.
Simply put,Date Movieis a mashup of cliches.It rightly won the Razzie Award for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy.
Unsurprisingly,Plump Fictionwas a box office flop,bringing injust $71, 000.
It starsDavid Nivenas the original 007, who comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
The movie frequently builds up a particular joke or scenario, only to abandon it later without explanation.
Much of this is probably due to the fact that there were five directors working on the project.
Too many cooks and all that.
All told, 1967’sCasino Royaleis just bizarre; it’s a wonder that it even exists.
Surpassing evenVampires Suckin its awfulness isBreaking Wind, its title an ever worse pun.
Here, flatulence is considered the height of comedy (the title is unfortunately not just a pun).
This extends even toDanny Trejo’s cameo as an elder werewolf.
Worst of all, there’s a sequence at the end where the movie mocks real-life fans.
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It’s a moment that reaches disdainful levels of mean-spiritedness.
In the end,Breaking Windhonestly makesVampires Sucklook likeNosferatu.
1’Disaster Movie’ (2008)
“This is the worst day of my life.”
It takes aim at the disaster genre and everything else trending in 2008, fromHigh School MusicaltoIron Man.
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A chaotic evening unfolds when unexpected catastrophes strike, compelling a band of friends to confront a whirlwind of surreal and over-the-top disasters. Mimicking various blockbuster hits, they encounter everything from invasions to superstorms, poking fun at cinematic tropes with each misadventure.
