Disastrous disaster movie

Sep 3 2008 Pierce Hunt , Surrey Herald

WHEN will the spoof movie saga end? Sure, it was funny in the beginning. Airplane was a masterpiece and even Hot Shots had its moments. But the last decade has seen Hollywood bombard us with awful efforts from teams of very lazy writers.

But Disaster Movie could be the curtain call for this flagging genre.

Directors Friedberg and Seltzer unfortunately highlight their total inadequacies when attempting to deliver a comical feature. They have effectively reached the bottom of the barrel, which is an accomplishment considering they released the god-awful Meet the Spartans earlier this year.

For a film to be based on continuous laughs, it was embarrassing to sit through a very long 89 minutes which failed to raise even a faint smile from a barrage of tumbleweed moments.

A very unfunny opening sequence with Amy Winehouse appearing as a Saber Tooth Tiger hybrid fails to stir even the slightest reaction. It's an incredibly painful watch. You could hear a pin drop in the cinema for the duration of the film. If you said to me before that I wouldn't laugh at all, I wouldn't have believed you. But, the film lives up to its title as truly abysmal.

Far too many ideas are thrown into the mix with an exhausted list of film characters including Iron Man, Batman, The Incredible Hulk and Kung Fu Panda. It also dips its toe in the storylines of Sex and the City, Juno,

Superbad, Enchanted, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cloverfield, High School Musical, Hancock and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, to name only a few.

You have been warned, so don't waste your time or money on the worst film of the year!

1/10