Like many critics, moviegoers and Tibetan monks, I am getting sooooooo tired of spoof movies. I used to be a huge fan of them. I loved the old Mel Brooks classics like “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” I thoroughly enjoyed the old ZAZ flicks like “Airplane!” and “Top Secret!” Even the string of “Scary Movie” titles were a lot of fun.
But over the past few years, there have been so many of these movies that it has run the genre into the ground. Much of this is due to Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who were responsible for such cinematic terrorism as “Epic Movie,” “Meet the Spartans” and “Disaster Movie.” They drove the genre into the ground, using overly random pop culture references that they often needlessly explained to the audience.
And it shows. There’s something horribly amateurish about this film, which seems to be influenced a bit too much by Friedberg and Seltzer’s leftovers. There are some very funny moments and laugh-out-loud gags. But the deliver is terribly inconsistent.
For the die-hard fans of the spoof genre, this will be more of the same. But for the rest of us… well, it’s more of the same, just in a worse way.