Epic Movie (2007)

Directors:

Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer

Writers (WGA):

Jason Friedberg (written by) &
Aaron Seltzer (written by)

Release Date:

26 January 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

We Know It's Big. We Measured.

Plot:

A comedic satire of films that are large in scope, reputation and popularity

Plot Keywords:

Orphan | White Bitch | Mutant | Factory | Pirate

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Kal Penn	...	Edward
Adam Campbell	...	Peter
Jennifer Coolidge	...	White Bitch
Jayma Mays	...	Lucy
Faune A. Chambers	...	Susan (as Faune Chambers)
Crispin Glover	...	Willy
Tony Cox	...	Bink
Héctor Jiménez	...	Mr. Tumnus (as Hector Jimenez)
Darrell Hammond	...	Captain Jack Swallows
Carmen Electra	...	Mystique
Fred Willard	...	Aslo
David Carradine	...	Museum Curator
Kevin McDonald	...	Harry Potter
George Alvarez	...	Ron
Crista Flanagan	...	Hermoine

Also Known As:

Bob Bailey (USA) (working title)
Очень эпическое кино (Russia) [ru]
Big Movie (France) [fr]
Deu a Louca em Hollywood (Brazil) [pt]
Epic Movie (Greece) [el]
Fantastic Movie (Germany) [de]
Suur film (Estonia) [et]
Una loca película épica (Argentina) [es]
Una película épica (Venezuela) [es]
Wielkie kino (Poland) [pl]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence.

Runtime:

86 min | 93 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-13 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #43041) | Spain:18 | Norway:11 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Netherlands:12 | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:M18 (unrated version) | Portugal:M/12 | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:15 (video release) | Germany:12 (also unrated version) | South Korea:18 (unrated version) | New Zealand:M

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Regency Pictures

Trivia:

The band playing at the big party sequence is Eagles of Death Metal.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Edward drinks what he thinks is chocolate from the sewer line, his face is drenched in the brown liquid. When he comes over near Willy just seconds later, his face is clean.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: This is the story of four orphans brought together by fate. They didn't know it yet, but there was something more greater in store for them, something epic.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Soundtrack:

Waiting for a Girl Like You

Not actually a movie...

...but rather just a list of movies that the filmmakers wanted to parody, strung together by the weakest plot in film history and a lot of unfunny jokes.

You would think that the team responsible for the mess of a movie that was Date Movie would at least have learned something from their last film to help them avoid the same mistakes, but they didn't.

It would appear they spent more time making parodies as visually accurate as they could and spent almost no time trying to make the film entertaining. Some of the parodies seem completely out of place and don't even fit into what little plot there is.

I couldn't recommend this film to anyone, not even those I hated.