10 Incredible Movie Parodies Nobody Noticed
1. A Deadly Adoption
In fairness, you can't really blame audiences for being totally baffled by A Deadly Adoption - a seemingly typical Lifetime thriller in which a married couple (Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig) takes in a troubled pregnant woman only to discover things aren't quite what they seem.
Despite the casting of comedy actors Ferrell and Wiig in the central roles, the story is played almost completely straight, with Ferrell and Wiig giving totally deadpan performances.
But therein lies the fun - we expect the pair to offer up a subversive riff on the Lifetime formula, and it never really comes.
The absurdity lies in two Hollywood A-listers deigning to star in something so trashy and appearing to take the assignment seriously, no matter how ridiculous the story is.
And yet, when A Deadly Adoption first aired, audiences and critics alike were left scratching their heads over the lack of laugh-out-loud comedy from a movie starring two of the most famous A-lister comedians on the planet.