This review was originally posted in August 2010, and is a recut version that runs 3m shorter than the original, with numerous cuts to film clips, remove some jokes I don't feel worked, and tighten up the pacing. If the review doesn't look great, there is a reason for that: my friend Chris edited this review, and I don't have the final master file for it, I only have the heavily compressed FLV file that I uploaded to Blip (you got better quality doing it that way than them doing the conversion for you). As such, in order to re-edit this, I had to convert that back into an MP4 file to edit that, so this is essentially a fourth generation file, although I have nevertheless upscaled it to HD to preserve what quality there is. I've also applied noise reduction throughout the review to reduce tape and camera noise. That's part of the reason this heavily-requested review has been away for so long. This re-post is to coincide with Night School, as Kevin Hart is in this in a prominent uncredited role that he'd likely not want to be reminded of. Have fun!

You cannot spoof a comedy. That's the most basic rule of parody humor. These movies fail at even that simple concept.

It's a shame really great KZfaq channels get copyright strikes for unfair reasons, yet these two idiots get to straight up rip off other properties with no apparent consequence.

The problem with these spoof movies are they're way too unfocused and throw in too many characters and scenes from movies that have nothing to do with the actual movie and are just there.

This movie is so 2006 its physically causing me pain.

You know a movie is bad when the only funny jokes involve someone getting shot. Also, the "joke" where the girl was accidentally crushing David Caradinne's hand was stolen from Good Burger. (Uh, Dexter, you're squishing my pancreas)

I remember being about 12 years old at secondary school and thinking this film looked like the funniest film ever made. I should also say I had awful taste back then.

I've seen movies made back in the 1920s that have aged better than this movie from 11 years ago. The sad part about Epic movie in particular is there are a few jokes that could have worked, but they lack any context and most of them drag on way too long.

Yeah, that whole "From 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie" thing... the other four writers never actually read Friedberg and Seltzer's script. The duo wrote an early draft, and were only credited for contractual reasons.

Friedberg /Seltzer movie are so Bad, porn parodys are better.

so crispin glover said no to back to the futures sequels but said yes to this what a weird world we live in

This is why I don't take spoof movies seriously anymore. After the likes of Scary Movie (which I admittedly liked), the filmmakers seem to have gotten lazy with the likes of Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, and especially this movie.

Considering this movie was from 2006, the “weapon of mass destruction” could’ve been potentially and maybe even cleverly used to parody George Bush’s reasoning for us getting into a war with Iraq, but then I realize that would take more effort and thinking in a movie that lacks it.

I work at an oil rig in Mexico. After 14 days of labor me and my colleagues were aboard the ship that was taking us to dry land. This movie was shown during the trip and for the first time ever the workers asked the captain to turn the movie off or put another one.Even they couldn't endure this travesty. And I'm talking about people who find funny and enjoy the Adam Sandler movies.

I still die of laughter when Film Brain screams,"David Carradine???!!??"🤣🤣

Back when Kevin Hart was an unknown actor.

"References are not Jokes" Tell that to Robot Chicken and Family Guy.

It seems that Hollywood is no longer funding anymore Friedberg/Seltzer films. One of their future projects, *_Who the F#@K Took My Daughter?,_* which was to be a _Taken_ parody, hasn't been heard about for four years, and another, a _Star Wars_ parody titled *_Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue,_* was said to film in fall 2017 but nothing's come about it either. Has Hollywood finally given up on those two guys?

Borat does politically incorrect humor much better than Seltzerberg ever will.

Still a better film than Disaster Movie… And still… My deepest sympathy for anyone who had been through this piece of abomination.

There are some films that I think can be uses to torture people. Like this one.

I'm just happy that these kinds of spoof movies seem to be dying out now, guess the kind of audience they were aiming for grew up and moved on If I want genuinely funny and clever lowest common denominator parodies, I'll just watch Robot Chicken or Spitting Image

This review is funnier than the movie

This movie's jokes were chosen via dartboard but the writers kept missing the dartboard.

A movie so bad that even a review of it is kinda painful to watch...

Friedberg and Seltzer are the worst filmmakers ever! Vince Offer: Hold my ShamWow!

The only funny thing about this movie is that people paid money for it.

Glad this is back on YT. This was actually the first review of yours I ever watched, I've been hooked ever since

Quite a lot of it was based on 2005 movies and it came out in 2007 so it was dated on release

I just realized that the Willy Wonka torture bit was supposed to be a reference to that old fan theory that the Gene Wilder Wonka is a serial killer who uses human flesh for his candy...a reference that's rendered invalid since the Tim Burton movie they’re spoofing in particular AND the original book it was advertised as being closer to showed that the cast survived

I'm eating Nacho chips while watching this! Your review is so much funnier than the actual movie, itself!

I think Crispin Glover may legitimately be insane

I watched this movie with my friends in middle school. We thought it seemed funny. in the commericals. When we left the theather, we then made a pact to never tell our parents what this movie even was. We were too terrified to let them know. The Wonka scene still haunts me to this day

RIP Fred Willard..

Wow, this movie absolutely sucks

4:33 I wouldn't expect Seltzerberg to make a Strong Bad reference. That would actually be funny. 9:44 Oh, and the old "open closet and a whole bunch of stuff falls out" gag. That goes back to radio shows from the 1930s. 11:02 In almost every episode of Cribs featuring a rapper's crib, the rapper has a Scarface poster in his home.

This is not a bad movie, its a HORRID movie, honestly, the writers who wrote this should be out of a job and kick out of Hollywood for good.

9:50 Because it was funny in Airplane? Except it worked there to fit the madness of how everyone was reacting to the plane falling, this was just…Seltzerberg.

On the bright side, Seltzerberg's stock went way down after Vampires Suck. Their last few movies had limited releases and were certified box-office bombs, and despite announcing a few projects haven't actually released anything since 2015. Let's keep it that way.

1:57-2:07 I love how you sound like a frustrated little kid (that wasn’t an insult by the way).

14:36 Okay, I kinda laughed at that part. However, they killed it by making it drag for too long.

They Forgot to put "Failure" between epic and movie.

Either these Movie Makers are extremely unfunny or this is anti humor.

Thing is, there is a lot about Epic Films as a genre that can be parodied, their typically gargantuan lengths, their similarly gargantuan casts, and plots that rarely feel like one narrative as much as they do TV miniseries.

Does anyone notice the herry Potter is played by the guy who did voice work for cat scratch & invader Zim

It gets even worse in Meet The Spartans, where the actors keep turning to the camera and *EXPLAINING* what the "references" are. Even more so than they do here. Why not hold up a cardboard sign with "PLZ LAUGH NOW" written on it in crayon while you're at it?

I saw this with a high school boyfriend our first date...Is over a decade too late to get a refund? (PS: I really hope Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard fired their agents after this.)

the funniest part is the guy playing Cyclops actually does bear some resemblance to James Marsden... unless its actually him.

Why would they cast a actor from nacho libre while parodying nacho libre?

4:23 is pretty much Cal Penn's reaction to the damage he did to his career. He's like please kill me. Kill me. Get me out of this irredeemable pile of horse crap.

Something occurred to me - they could've used Aslan as it can't be copyrighted due to just being Turkish for lion, rendering whatever joke they're attempting even more nonsensical

Seeing Kevin Hart in this hurts just as much as the fact that these asshole directors dragged amazing voice actress Brittney Karbowski in The Starving Games. Just...why?

If you gave anyone with a brain cell this same basic premise and told them to write a script of their own with it, they'd cook up something way better than this. Online video reviewers, always proving that there are far worse things than the worst movie you've ever seen (at least "Addicted to Fresno," for as ABSOLUTELY VILE as it was, didn't lazily rehash plot points and jokes from other hotel-set movies, nor did it constantly point them out as if we weren't able to figure it out straight away).

Clips i used for this: this is bad comedy! This! Isn't! Funny!

We know Epic Movie is insufferable when Kevin Hart left himself uncredited, so he was definitely ashamed of ever participating. But Disaster Movie worsened the horrid qualities of Epic Movie and Date Movie combined. Remember that you shouldn't parody comedies, since your spoof movie is already a comedy hence the rules of humorous art in cinema.

Epic Movie...Epic Cluster****...

14:22 - Film Brain's signature quote!

One of only two movies I regret ever watching, the other is "Son of the Mask".

“This is outright THEFT” Haha you’re awesome man, keep making videos !

maybe mystique's flabby arm shapeshift gag was a monkeybone reference lol

10:37 Wait, so they parody Nacho Libre and yet still pay an actor from that movie to be in this? What?! That makes no sense whatsoever. Edit: I just realized that Kal Penn was in Superman Returns. That's two angering instances.

"How do you put a funny spin on something that was supposed to be funny in the first place?" There's Seltzerberg logic for you.

I don't get what they're supposed to be spoofing here, it's so random. Xmen, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Snakes on a Plane?

I saw most of Epic Movie on TV once. The *only* jokes that me chuckle were the brief mention of White Castle (which I now see isn't funny) and when Tumnus got shot (until they made the joke go on for too long). I got so bored that I ended up devoting my attention to watching KZfaq videos on my dad's computer.

Lesson: when doing a parody or spoof make sure you research the thing you are parodying and don't overly it with stuff references even to the point of Blatant Plagarism or thinly veiled shallow parody

I think the Cribs gag was spoofing how everyone in 2005/2006 was obsessed with Scarface. There was Scarface junk everwhere. Also the bullet in the eye had context as it was spoofing the Superman Returns trailer where the bullet bounces off his eye

I find these movies interesting because they’re practically a time capsule of 2006. Also I was gonna say this is the most shameful thing Kevin Heart has done, but then I saw Think Like A Man 2.

What part the Golden Tickets had in this slock? Bad and unfunny is one thing, but throwing away your plot, or what goes for plot in this thing is unforgivable.

You know a movie is bad when you can take out more and its better.

Here's a rule of thumb. If you want to do parody right, don't remind us of better movies or even subpar movies while we're watching yours.

That remote really turned me off. I was like "wtf?" So stupid.

This is my favorite review from you. Your reactions to bad comedy are so much funnier than your reactions to bad action movies.

i remember that i only saw this movie because i got free tickets, but they didn't told me wich movie the tickets where for, so i said, what0s the worst it could happen

shaun of the dead is a better movie than this

Crispin Glover, you're better than this, why are you here?

I remember when i did a reunion with a bunch of friends, we got some movies to watch and *THIS MOVIE ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THEM* the funny thing is i knew they wanted to see this one knowing that they liked the other ones and the 300 spoof as well and i kinda wanted to them to forgot about it since i just didnt wanted to watch this one. Thing is i ended up watching it not once, not twice, not three times but like 7 times because they liked it so goddamn much that every now or then they will pop this sucker in and i had to sit throught this torture without even having a choice to not watch it, and im not joking they *LOVED* the jokes in this movie, things like every single harry potter character dying because why not? the random star wars references that doesnt make sense, that god awful Pirates of the Caribeean rap, and the borat scenes, also whenever tits or farts or something "shit" related joke come up they laughed their asses off, call me a pesimistic or too nip picky and that i dont know how to take a joke or that i dont like "comedy" but i like comedic stuff when they have a *CONTEXT* or they are *CLEVER* enough to caught me off guard and make me laugh at how clever the joke was, farting and saying stupid crap for the sake of looking like a complete asshole isnt *FUNNY* and so i do despise this movie and every single other one like this (including movie 43 *SPECIALLY MOVIE 43* ) just because they are even worse than the bottom of the barrel, and that's saying much. But i do like Scary Movie, American Pie and Another Teenager Movie, but this ones? no thank you.

Anyone remember "Film Brain Reviews Suburban Knights?"

The 1980 hit comedy film spoof Flying High! is way better than Epic Movie. Flying High! is a excellent comedy film.

I have to admit that the "nut cracking" scene made me laugh!

Idk the way the british dude describes how the fat arms should look is hilarious in how stupid it is.

Mat, do you plan to upload Bear and The Cavern around Halloween? In the case of the latter, trimming clips will be a good thing, because those lights really can give you a headache.

2:53-2:57 - And yet they proudly plastered their logo in front of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, AVP: Requiem, Dragonball: Evolution, Fant4stic, A Good Day to Die Hard and every other of their cinematic blunders you can think of! So you mean to tell me that all of those shitstains were OK, yet this is the one that they were ashamed of?! No wonder Disney bought them out. Also, poor Jayma Mays. First this, then The Smurfs? What did she do to deserve this? 6:43 - Oh, trust me, I wish I was watching Shameless instead!

Ok this has been annoying me for ages now. What is the music that Matt plays over his staring, annoyed face on two different points of the film? One is at 10:31

What happened in hindsight about Crispin Glover playing a Willy Wonka parody in a parody of Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is funnier than the parody, because Crispin Glover eventually appeared in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with Tim Burton's Willy Wonka himself Johnny Depp (and not the first time they appeared in a movie together, with What's Eating Gilbert Grape 17 years earlier).

my dad watched this whilst i was in the room when i was 7/8 and gave me nightmares for days

9:33 - Throughout these years I am curious on what song/track is that?

1:24 "That spawned 3 sequels" oh, if only it was still just 3...

Kal penn must be a fan of White Castle, god damn it.

ok so, i tried to find all of the How Gratuitous scenes on the internet but no luck and no videos are there. can you give me a link to all the How Gratuitous scenes directly ripped from the uncut epic movie dvd. thanks.

(14:22) Looking at you, Justin Roiland.

Team Seltzberg shouldn't be allowed near a camera ever.

I had forgotten how desperately this movie attempted to pander to fans of pop culture by shamelessly referencing anything that had even the smallest amount of relevance around that time. I hate the fact that if one movie or show becomes successful, a multitude of knock offs follow suit. These knock offs become so ubiquitous that their premise defines an entire era. Instead of pushing for quality, the entertainment industries use movies like this one as "filler" until either something original comes along or something old can be successfully revived. Anything to make money, I guess.

Borat is hilarious! Its infinity times funnier than Epic Fail.

Has no one seriously brought the fact that this movie has incest in it? Several of the main characters ended up having a foursome with Fred Willard's character and then they find out they're siblings a few hours (in movie time) later. I honestly can't tell whether this is more of the director's warped psyche or evidence the film was made up as they went.

>comparing a deliberately confrontational anti-comedy with a lazy spoof movie Oh okay

So I know this could be said about most jokes in this thing but...that Harry Potter joke is so baffling. Wouldn't that joke be better used on something that actually uses grown ass adults to play teens or something where characters are kinda stuck in a stasis like Dawson's Creek for the first or the Simpsons for the latter? The Harry Potter cast started as the same age as their characters and by the time of the last film were only around 4 years older than their characters.

4:23, Kal Penn REALLY not wanting to be in this movie.

Welp, I recently got up-to-date on Phelous, and I need a new series to binge through, I think this will do nicely :P

12:02 Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle joke

The worst part of the box-office returns of 'Epic Movie' is that they ensured the movie buried the much-superior 'Hot Fuzz' at the US box-office. Thank goodness for the home entertainment market.