4. Everything By Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer After Date Movie (2007 Present, Dir. Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer)
What Is The Comedy? A series of increasingly terrible films that parody pop culture elements from the past year or so.
Why Are They So Terrible? They lack intelligence, are primarily focussed on idiotic gross out humour and one-note jokes stretched out to painful degree, are full of hideously blatant product placement, and a lot of the time the parodies are just a character from whatever the film is meant to be spoofing entering a scene and saying who they are. For example, there is a scene in Disaster Movie where an actor wearing armour and carrying a sword stands in a nondescript field and says I am Prince Caspian and I am here to save Narnia. An unrelated character from the previous scene then falls out of the sky and lands on his sword, and the scene ends. They ultimately lack what a legitimate parody needs: taking well known elements of a film genre and adding a comic twist to them.
Who Should Know Better? Writers and directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
Why Should They Know Better? Upon its release, Date Movie was savaged by both critics and cinemagoers alike. It currently has a rating of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes and if you go to any reviews site, the reviews for Date Movie will be universally negative. The consensus has always been that its a pile of crap. So based on the vicious reaction from almost everyone who watched it, Friedberg and Seltzer should have marked it down as a failure and moved onto something else, realising that their particular brand of comedy just didnt work. Instead, because Date Movie was a relative financial success, they went on to make Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie, and Vampires Suck (all of which were terrible with Disaster Movie currently occupying the 2nd place spot on IMDBs 100 Worst Films list) and are currently finishing work on their latest offering The Starving Games, which looks to be more or less the same as their previous efforts.