Disaster Movie

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Movie
German title Disaster Movie
Original title Disaster Movie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Aaron Seltzer ,
Jason Friedberg
script Aaron Seltzer,
Jason Friedberg
production Peter Safran ,
Aaron Seltzer,
Jason Friedberg
music Christopher Lennertz
camera Shawn Mason
cut Peck Prior
occupation

Disaster Movie is an American feature film from 2008 by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer , which was also used for the films Date Movie  (2006), Scary Movie  (2001-2006), Fantastic Movie  (2007) and Meine Frau, die Spartans und I  (2008) are responsible. The film received very poor critical acclaim, grossed $ 14.8 million on a budget of $ 20 million, and is the duo's least successful film in this regard. Disaster Movie started in the USA on August 29, 2008. In Germany, the film was originally supposed to open on October 2, 2008, but the start date was canceled at short notice. Instead, the film was released directly on DVD on February 19, 2009.

action

In the year 10,001 BC A prehistoric man encounters Amy Winehouse , who prophesies that humanity is about to be extinguished on August 29, 2008 and that an orange crystal skull will somehow be connected to it.

On August 29, 2008, Will woke up in the morning dreaming about what happened to Amy Winehouse. He notices that a skull is marked on the calendar today. He tries to tell his friend Amy, who has been cheating on him for a long time. But she doesn't believe him.

On the same day, at his Super Duper Sweet Sixteen party for his 25th birthday, the earth began to shake and the radio reported about the end of the world. Shortly thereafter, meteors and earthquakes put the city in danger, and Will finds it getting colder and colder. Together with Calvin, Lisa and Juney, he makes his way to leave the city, where they watch as Hannah Montana is killed by a meteor. They are looking for a hiding place, but first they have to drive the "Sex and the City" girls from there. Amy calls Will from her work and says she's in a museum and wants to check that everything is in place. Will wants to check on Amy, but Lisa refuses to go with Will, Juney and Calvin and is shortly afterwards also killed by a meteor, which is a hard blow for Calvin, who loses his great love as a result. But not for long, because the enchanted princess crawls out of the sewer and falls in love with Calvin. The new troop must now get to safety from tornadoes. In the safe hiding place, however, Juney is eaten by rabid chipmunks and Will is running out of time. Amy calls him that she cannot move because a statue is holding her to the ground. When they arrive at the museum, the princess and Calvin are killed by Kung Fu Panda. It turns out that Amy has stolen the crystal skull and hidden it under her skirt and wants to bring it to an altar. Before that, they fight against Beowulf, which they win. At the altar they meet Will's father: Indiana Jones. Will manages to bring the skull back to the altar and thus prevent the end of humanity.

The film ends with a "Love Guru" -style wedding for Amy and Will - followed by a song from the full cast in which they sing about how they all dated / fucked each other .

background

  • In the theatrical version the word fucked and some others have been replaced by dated . In the unrated version, the song can also be seen uncut.
  • Working titles for the film were Meet the Spartans 2 , Goodie Two Shoes and Meet the Spartans 2: The Story of McLover & The Kingdom of the Crystal Beer Can

reception

The reviews of Disaster Movie were consistently bad. The film gets only two percent in the rating of Rotten Tomatoes . Josh Levin from Slate calls the makers "charlatans" and denies them the right to be called filmmakers. Disaster Movie was at number 1 on the list of the 100 worst films, which is kept by the Internet Movie Database .

“It is to be hoped that 'Disaster Movie' will be treated with the same disregard in Germany as in the USA. The Schwachfug, which Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer did, definitely deserved it. In seventy minutes, the two 'creative minds' manage to let every possible joke drift into the unbearable or disgusting. And even if 'Disaster Movie' can only be attested to with pure lack of imagination over long stretches, the would-be parody is finally disqualified by its countless taste lapses. "

- Filmstarts.de

The film received six nominations for the Golden Raspberry in the categories of Worst Picture , Worst Supporting Actress , Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip Off or Sequel , Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay . Both Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian were nominated in the Worst Supporting Actress category. Overall, the film received no "award".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Disaster Movie - Box office income
  2. ↑ [2] Disaster Movie: German cinema release set for satire?
  3. ^ Disaster Movie Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  4. ^ Meet the Charlatans . Slate . Retrieved September 23, 2008.
  5. ↑ Bottom 100 movies as voted by our users. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .