Disaster Movie is a 2008 spoof film. Jason Friedberg and Adam Seltzer the two guys who did EPIC MOVIE, DATE MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE, and MEET THE SPARTANS bring you DISASTER MOVIE, a compendium of gross-out gags and reference-check quasi-satire bits aping THE INCREDIBLE HULK, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, JUMPER, ENCHANTED, DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN, SEX AND THE CITY, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, and so on.
The story is structured via CLOVERFIELD with Will (Matt Lanter), after having a 10,000 B.C.-style dream involving an Amy Winehouse look-a-like (Nicole Parker), races against time to rescue his girlfriend (Vanessa Minnillo) who is trapped in a museum with references to TWISTER; meanwhile kids who look like the teens from SUPERBAD try and score booze. What? Along for the ride are a JUNO-esque slacker girl (Crista Flanagan) and Gary "G-Thang" Johnson; there are take-offs of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, and celebrity impersonations of Dr. Phil, Michael Jackson, the real Kim Kardashian, and the ubiquitous Carmen Electra; lots of dances and fights and dance/fights (à la STEP UP and STEP UP 2 THE STREETS).
The comedy talent here is mostly imported from MAD TV, particularly Parker, who also does ENCHANTED and a mean Jessica Simpson. The recipe here, as before, is to cram in as many pop-culture references as possible, douse liberally with gross bodily fluids, and serve face forward.
At first, we thought this movie gonna be fun and hilarious, but our thought slides down as the movie started. There were too much repeated action. The same thing were repeated over and over again. Like on the first few minutes when the movie started, when the main character meet with Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse was burping on the main character face. This last for a few minutes. One or two burps is enough to make it hilarious but 10 burps? The audience are starting to get annoyed.
There was as scene where a meteor fell down and hit Hanna Montana. Before she died, she did said something and its kinda funny. Then we thought she already died, but she still have an energy to talk. This scene was repeated a few times.
Then the scene when the main characters was chased by a twister. Then come the Iron Man. Its already hilarious to see the Iron Man making a somewhat cool entrance and then he was hit by a cow that was flown by the twister until he became a tin can. Then the scene repeated with The Hulk, and Hellboy. Its started to get bored to watch the same scene over and over again.
Disaster Movie is not, as you might have guessed, a parody of disaster movies. But it is a disaster. Disaster Movie is lazily written, insulting rubbish and it's unquestionably one of the worst films of the year. Avoid like your life depended on it. Why challenge yourself when you can have your Juno stand-in end a fight by lactating on the "Sex and the City" girls? Nope, a better question is why did I subject myself to this movie?
The movie is cheap, lazy, and sloppy, an obvious throwaway that no one put any effort into. There is not a single laugh in it. As in their last bloodbath, Meet the Spartans, the directors demonstrate an astonishing unawareness of how to write a gag, much less how to film it. They kill time by staging dance-offs and fight sequences, because those things are easy to write. The few elements that had humorous potential feel dated after all, even movies that are slapped together take a few months to assemble, and the cultural landscape changes quickly. The "I'm F***ing Matt Damon" parody that appears at the end might have been mildly amusing if we'd seen it in February. Now it's just embarrassing. I give this movie 4 out of 5 ROTTEN TOMATOES!!
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