10 Worst Film Comedies Since 2000

Described by one critic as “a plague on our cinematic landscape, a danger to our culture, a typhoon-sized natural disaster disguised as a filmmaking team”, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are the duo responsible for some of the most disposable (and unwatchable) films of the 2000s – Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie etc.

Friedberg and Seltzer don’t actually satirize anything, they just reward their MTV-saturated, junk food-munching demographic for their pop culture knowledge. What makes Disaster Movie so egregious? It’s basically more of the same, but it proves that even with a string of films behind them, they still haven’t learned the difference between satire and mimicry.

In the first five minutes, we get 10,000 BC, Gladiators and Amy Winehouse ‘jokes’ before moving on to the likes of Juno, Superbad, Wanted, Hancock, Enchanted etc. (remember those movies? You’re in trouble if you don’t). Friedberg and Seltzer’s films aren’t meant to be viewed by anyone out of their late teens which, given the level of wit on display, is just as well. If you can’t mock Hanna Montana or Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, get a day job.