-By Frank Scheck
For movie details, please click here.
Parody specialists Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have found
their formula and are sticking with it despite what any of the rest
of us might think.
The duo, responsible for such stinkers as
Date Movie,
Epic Movie and
Disaster Movie, now have turned their puny sights on the
rabid pop-culture phenomenon of sexy vampires. Or rather, just the
Twilight series, as this effort would be more accurately
titled
Twilight Sucks.
Ignoring such contemporary bloodsucker-themed hits as HBO's "True
Blood" and the CW's "The Vampire Diaries," not to mention stalwarts
like Dracula or the works of Anne Rice, this witless spoof instead
merely provides an unfunny scene-by-scene retread of the first two
movies in the hugely successful franchise.
Thus, it dutifully trots out slightly renamed versions of the
iconic
Twilight characters, including the romantically torn Becca
(Jenn Proske) and her dueling suitors: the taciturn vampire Edward
Sullen (Matt Lanter) and hunky werewolf Jacob White (Chris
Riggi).
If you think Jacob peeing on a tree or Becca farting in Edward's
face when he attempts to climb into bed with her are the height of
comic wit, then you're clearly of the adolescent mindset to which
these films cater. The director-screenwriters, clearly aware of
their target audience’s lack of sophistication, are not even
ashamed to trot out such hoary gags as when a horde of vampires
hungrily devour Chinese food and Edward observes that they'll be
hungry again in a half-hour.
As they've done with all their efforts, they also inject an endless
amount of current pop-culture references, in this case with gags
devoted to "Jersey Shore," the Kardashians, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger
Woods, Chris Brown and Tim Burton's
Alice in Wonderland. (To their credit, they also bite
the hand that feeds them, in the form of a dig directed at Fox
News.)
There's a joke or broad sight gag every 15 seconds or so, but the
ratio of hits to misses is nearly nonexistent. The sole truly funny
bit, riffing on the homoerotic subtext of the werewolves' penchant
for constantly exposing their chiseled torsos, features Jacob and
his fellow lycanthropes bursting into an exuberant dance routine to
the song "It's Raining Men."
The main performers do a reasonably good job of parodying the
Twilight leads, with Proske particularly effective in subtly
lampooning Kristen Stewart's moody mannerisms.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Film Review: Vampires Suck
Vampires Suck…and so does this lame Twilight spoof.
Aug 19, 2010
-By Frank Scheck
For movie details, please click here.
Parody specialists Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have found their formula and are sticking with it despite what any of the rest of us might think.
The duo, responsible for such stinkers as
Date Movie,
Epic Movie and
Disaster Movie, now have turned their puny sights on the rabid pop-culture phenomenon of sexy vampires. Or rather, just the
Twilight series, as this effort would be more accurately titled
Twilight Sucks.
Ignoring such contemporary bloodsucker-themed hits as HBO's "True Blood" and the CW's "The Vampire Diaries," not to mention stalwarts like Dracula or the works of Anne Rice, this witless spoof instead merely provides an unfunny scene-by-scene retread of the first two movies in the hugely successful franchise.
Thus, it dutifully trots out slightly renamed versions of the iconic
Twilight characters, including the romantically torn Becca (Jenn Proske) and her dueling suitors: the taciturn vampire Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter) and hunky werewolf Jacob White (Chris Riggi).
If you think Jacob peeing on a tree or Becca farting in Edward's face when he attempts to climb into bed with her are the height of comic wit, then you're clearly of the adolescent mindset to which these films cater. The director-screenwriters, clearly aware of their target audience’s lack of sophistication, are not even ashamed to trot out such hoary gags as when a horde of vampires hungrily devour Chinese food and Edward observes that they'll be hungry again in a half-hour.
As they've done with all their efforts, they also inject an endless amount of current pop-culture references, in this case with gags devoted to "Jersey Shore," the Kardashians, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods, Chris Brown and Tim Burton's
Alice in Wonderland. (To their credit, they also bite the hand that feeds them, in the form of a dig directed at Fox News.)
There's a joke or broad sight gag every 15 seconds or so, but the ratio of hits to misses is nearly nonexistent. The sole truly funny bit, riffing on the homoerotic subtext of the werewolves' penchant for constantly exposing their chiseled torsos, features Jacob and his fellow lycanthropes bursting into an exuberant dance routine to the song "It's Raining Men."
The main performers do a reasonably good job of parodying the
Twilight leads, with Proske particularly effective in subtly lampooning Kristen Stewart's moody mannerisms.
-
The Hollywood Reporter