8 Comedy Films You Should Die Before You See

1. Disaster Movie

Disaster Movie If you ever have to choose between watching glaciers for a million years or seeing a film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck etc), here€™s a helpful tip: watching ice melt is underrated. An endless succession of references to 2008€™s movies, TV shows and celebrities, Disaster Movie gives us 10,000 BC, Gladiators and Amy Winehouse €˜jokes€™ before moving on to the likes of Juno, Superbad, Wanted, Hancock, Enchanted etc. Friedberg and Seltzer don€™t actually satirize anything, they just reward their MTV-saturated, junk food-munching demographic for their pop culture knowledge. Their 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.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'