Ever happened that the trailers before a movie were more entertaining than the movie itself? 

EPIC MOVIE tells the story of four very different orphans: Lucy (Jayma Mays), whose mentor, a curator of the Louvre, has been murdered by an albino monk; Susan (Faune Chambers), who has just escaped an airplane full of poisonous snakes; Peter (Adam Campbell), a cowardly mutant who grows chicken wings in dangerous situations; and, suspiciously, Edward (Kal Penn), in whose orphanage the mexican Libre Wrestling was practiced.  Through a magic closet the four youngsters arrive in the kingdom of Gnarnia, with a silent G, where they meet all kind of interesting, different and certainly weird people, such as the always drunk pirate Jack Swallows or the always horny half-human lion. Together they fight the White Witch to stop her gaining power over the snow-covered kingdom. 

The parody spotlights a lot of recent popular movies–Hollywood films like "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Harry Potter", "Chronicles of Narnia", "The DaVinci Code", "X-Men" or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." But while Scary Movie managed to raise a real laugh, Epic Movie at most succeeds in a smile. The jokes are flat and repeated over and over again, climbing in annoyance.

As Lilly Beitzman on rotten tomatoes puts it, “the biggest problem isn't the concept, it’s how can you make fun of self-aware subjects like Borat or Johnny Depp's winkingly fey Jack Sparrow? Who hasn't already noticed Tom Hanks' bad "Da Vinci Code" hair? Is there anything left to say about Samuel L. Jackson and those snakes?”

Apparently, scriptwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are counting on audience expectations that a movie like this is going to be really funny and we will go to see it although we should know better. Not only are they right, it also seems to be enough to make it pay off for them: according to movie reporter.net, Epic Movie has brought in 40 million in the US.  

“Saturation humor used to be reliable for 90 minutes of enjoyable, disposable cinema. At some point, however, the jokes lost their zing,” comments James Berardinelli on Yahoo movie review. Even if you disagree, the movie is anything other than epic. At only 70 minutes with an extra fifteen of credits showing some useless scenes of the movie, you’d be better off making tinfoil hats and pretending to be Napoleon.  
 

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