On the /FilmCast tonight a discussion about the new Disaster Movie trailer turned into an examination of the spoof film. Neil from FilmSchoolRejects had to remind me that spoof movies were not always the bottom of the comedy genre. Mel Brooks and Monty Python created highbrow (or at least highbrow in comparison to contemporary spoof films) films which were not only praised during their time, but have gone on to become classics.
What is the difference? What has become of this genre. Watching the Disaster Movie trailer you will quickly realize that the film doesn’t even stick to the core concept presented in the title. What does Iron Man, Juno, Enchanted or Hancock have to do with disaster movies? Modern spoof films rely too much on recent pop culture references, likely because the audience for these films have such small attention spans. Any core story elements are lost, and the pop culture overload results in the loss of timelessness. The movie is only funny (if funny at all) at this moment in time.
A film like Spaceballs will always be funny because it works on its own. Sure, it helps that the subject of the spoof - Star Wars, is timeless, but even if you lived in a vacuum where Star Wars was never made available, Spaceballs would still be funny. You invest yourself in the characters and story, and in effect the comedy is elevated. I seriously doubt much time was spent on the story or characters in any one of the spoof comedies that have plagued our cinemas for the last decade. They are shot and dumped into theaters in a fraction of the time that it takes a real screenwriter to produce a first draft. That said, enjoy the Disaster Movie trailer below. Tell me your thoughts in the comments.
You can watch the trailer in High Definition on MySpace. Disaster Movie his theaters on August 29th 2008.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:04 am
At least they got the title right.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Wow… Anti Funny?
June 24th, 2008 at 1:07 am
The only reason python worked is that they had all of them doing there own bit and wasnt doing it for the money, the holy grail wasnt even going to be made unitl Led zepplin and other bands gave them some help with money.
This film is going to be terrrible and hopefully the film that show everyone how bad it is.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Why even cast more attention on something like this?
You have the power to quell the exposure of this sort of thing, /Film (Peter). YOU, ALONE, CAN SAVE US.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:26 am
yeah this looks horrible. its like the guys arent spoofing the movies, they are spoofing the TRAILERS of the movies.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Ok so I can take a spoof movie that deals with events in other recent films…
I might even take a summer movie that spoofs other movies which come out during the same summer…
But to have a movie that spoofs on scenes from trailers of summer movies is just ridiculous. The Zohan’s feet kicking scene is unbelieveable. This movie is going to blow chunks all over hollywood.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Oh yeah, and I agree, what happened to the disaster aspect of this film? Armageddon, Independence Day, War of the Worlds, aside from the asteroid I doubt anything like that is featured. Sex & The Hulk in The City is more like it.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Ummm, i like spoofs but this has Disaster written all over it ;). Any1 see how lame the SFX was on the Iron Man crushing scene? And whats up with Kim Kardashian in this? You hit it right on the head when you commented that they just stole scenes from trailers.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Why?!
Because all of you masturbate, that’s why! You’re all a bunch of fucking perverts!
June 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Disaster Movie: Finally, definitive proof their is no god. “Parodying” movies that haven’t even been released yet, now that is innovation… or should I say “parodying” movie trailers for movies that haven’t even been released yet by directly copying scenes verbatim… it’s funny because it’s so random to have a scene from Hancock with a fake Will Smith next to tranny Sex and the City and Juno and Hulk… get it? That’s awesome. These guys are geniuses
June 24th, 2008 at 2:04 am
And worst, we all know the average teenagers of this generation are gonna watch it and love it. Damn you, Friedberg and Seltzer!
June 24th, 2008 at 2:04 am
I didn’t laugh, not even once
June 24th, 2008 at 2:12 am
What’s the point of spoofing Hancock? Apart from the poor FX that bit could actually be a scene from the movie…
June 24th, 2008 at 2:20 am
“the end is coming”
at least they got the right tag-line
and what about Walk Hard? isn’t it a great modern spoof movie?
i think it’s a great example of a parody which isalso a good movie by itself…
June 24th, 2008 at 2:35 am
I can film me shitting and it would be better then that crap of a movie.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:43 am
I’m not sure how people being hit by random objects is parodying these films, but then again this movie is made for the lowest common denominator… mainly retards.
Two hours of my hairy asshole flinching would be a far better film than this one. Honestly anybody who pays money to see this needs to be put down. This franchise has become so terrible that I hope this is the last they make. If not then I am leaving this country and all it’s idiots behind.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:48 am
ohh crap
June 24th, 2008 at 4:22 am
At least they got Sarah Jessica Parker right.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Next, coming to a theatre near you: ASS
(Idiocracy, anyone?)
June 24th, 2008 at 6:32 am
i can probably film my own spoof movie and it will be 10 times better than anything that friedberg and seltzer put out
June 24th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian. How could it be anything less that great?! /vomit
June 24th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Are you f**king kidding me?
June 24th, 2008 at 7:29 am
This is a new low: Spoofing a film (Hitchcock) which comes out a month BEFORE Disaster Movie.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:35 am
WHY, WHY why why why why why why why do they keep makeing these shitty movies. If hollywood wants to keep makeing shitty knockoff movies give me some money and I am sure that I can make a movie just as bad as this
June 24th, 2008 at 8:15 am
i would rather be subject to uwe boll than be forced to sit through this tripe. can we please kill everyone associated with the production of this garbage?
on the other hand, they’re useful in that if someone finds them funny i know not to associate with them.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I watch this trailer…and find that I only have one question: Where’s Dexter Morgan when you need him? Surely he can see that the making of these movies is the only true pure evil in this world, why not silence all of the producers, actors, and directors?
June 24th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I think i can speak for everyone about this movie in three words….
F**k that movie!
June 24th, 2008 at 8:33 am
One word: Idiocracy
June 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am
WTF? I’m embarrassed to be a film maker because movies like this exist
June 24th, 2008 at 8:52 am
The only way to stop these movies from coming out is to not go to them. So can whoever is paying to see this shit stop, please?? This trailer is just an embarrassment to humanity.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I thought I hated Uwe Boll…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Boooooooooooooooring… I didn’t find much to laugh in this trailer, maybe a 9 year old would laugh… At least I laughed when the princess got ran over by a cab, but then again, that would be funny in any movie…
Bring back real spoofs like Spaceballs!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:21 am
When I think about it, these type of movies are worse than what the Asylum makes… at least Asylum try to do some serious work… Those spoof movies look like they are made by teenagers that still ove your basic pee-poo jokes…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am
wow, I didn’t even crack a smile. That is one lame duck of a movie.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Come on. Tranny Carrie Bradshaw didn’t produce one slight smirk? I mean it’s A MAN. A MAN.
I hope these guys burn in hell.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
“When I think about it, these type of movies are worse than what the Asylum makes… at least Asylum try to do some serious work… ”
@Smumdax
That’s a pretty bold statement. As horribly bad as this trailer is, I could watch at least half of it (without laughing of course) which is more then I can say for any Asylum movie.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:09 am
seriously, why? why do they keep doing this crap! I think theyres something wrong in theyre head its full of f=shit!!!!!!
you want this movies to stop?
no one but i mean no one go see them, theyll recibe no money and they will be gone!!!!!!!!!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:11 am
My God!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
haha i like that someone up there says that only you /film(petter) can save us. Maybe that should be a movie in itself. XD
Haha im so glad that hannah montana died in the trailer. Shes corrupting our nations youth.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Mike Myers is so happy that there is a movie coming out this year that is actually worse than that stupid guru crap
June 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Mel Brooks save us all.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:28 am
so bad.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
WHAT???
I don’t GET it - it’s no even an issue of funny or not.
A COW falls on IRON MAN. WTF.
and “oh wouldn’t it be funny if Hancock started flying, but then hit something?”
^?????????????????????^
Man, Disaster and Superhero Movies could’ve have been sooo good, in a Hot Fuzz sort of way. I guess Hancock is the superhero version, but they could’ve done so much with this one? Disaster movies always take place in NYC. That, right there is something you could brainstorm. Like a couple of guys in Albany wondering why New York always gets the action, they move to the city to be these big heroes, and Albany starts getting destroyed. Not the best concept but hey it’s better than this
June 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
If you really enjoy this type of “spoof” movie, I (and I’m sure that I’m not alone in saying this) would like to say…
Please, just quit life. You’re not contributing anything remotely lucrative anyways.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
These movies suck. They really do but it will make millions because Teens will be taking their dates to see this.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I hope by “The End is Coming” they mean the end of these kinds of sub-par parody films. :-\
June 24th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
i wish i could kick everyone thats involved with this shitty movie in the nuts!
June 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
This is terrible. Even as a teenager who usually laughs at more juvenile stuff, I didn’t crack a smile once. Who actually likes these? It’s like “HAHA Hannah Montana DIED!” I don’t get it. What’s the joke? That it’s Hannah Montana? Why do producers think adding in a pop icon makes it funnier?
June 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
It makes you realize that Uwe Boll really is a genius.
Think about it. He’s the ultimate real-life troll. He makes shitty video game movies because he KNOWS it’ll get the nerds everywhere up in arms and crapping their pants, all for his amusement.
The man is brilliant. Best. Troll. Ever.
And they add a pop icon because the average middle school kid that’s going to see this crap thinks “Hey, Hannah Montana! This is relevant to my interests! Maybe she’ll take her top off.”
June 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
did the asses that make these movies actually see Hancock or are they making fun of it based on just the trailers?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:49 am
SJP parody was fun. but the whole thing is… ugh…
June 27th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I didn’t laugh once. Iron Man being crushed by a hollow cow? That is not comedy. This is the worst kind of hackery. I almost cried because this trailer was so bad. It obviously was gestating in a hot pile of Satan’s crap.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
In the Day the Earth Stood Still remake, they should have Klaatu tell Earth it will be destroyed by aliens if they don’t stop making these movies.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I still say it’s time someone makes “Spoof Movie”. Imagine the logical loopholes we’d have to jump through for that one.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
oh no! not again!
August 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Ok I have to ask…how it is that this movie was put together shortly after some of the movies they are spoofing came out?? Take Hancock and the HULK for instance…heck even Sex and the City (not that I went to go see it but still….)
Folk REALLY have TOO much time on their hands… :-/
August 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I just watched a clip from Disaster Movie that parodied Juno. The scene was downright unfunny and just plain old disturbing. Jokes about killing babies are NEVER funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 28th, 2008 at 4:38 am
The only thing I found funny about this trailer….
were the comments about how unbelievably bad this movie is. Not just on this website, but all around the internet. I mean, google returned many results of people posting about how they hate that these movies are made. People, you make me believe in the human race again.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Wow, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are so terrible, that they don’t even get their own wikipedia page. They are lumped together like two piles of dog shit that are put into one bag from the dog’s owner.