For the last thirty years, from “Airplane” to “Hot Shots” to “Scary Movie,” parodic comedies have focused on specific movie genres. With the studios’ ongoing deluge of summer and holiday blockbusters becoming the norm, writers/directors Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer felt the time was ripe to expand the scope of genre parodies to include recent action films, comic book films, and children’s fantasy films.
The idea for the film came to Friedberg and Seltzer while they were making “Date Movie” with producer Paul Schiff. “We had so much fun making that movie we didn’t want to stop, so we came up with another one,” says Schiff. “We were just brainstorming and talking about targets of opportunities ripe for parodies.”
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The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one reared by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks); another, a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling; the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane; and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a silent "G").
There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia. EPIC MOVIE comes from the new masters of the parody genre - Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer - who now set their parodic sights on the largest genre of them all: Hollywood's big-budget, special effects-laden, blockbuster franchise films.
After successfully skewering the scary movie and romantic comedy franchises as two of the six writers of "Scary Movie," and as the writers/director of "Date Movie," the duo now focus on this untapped niche - Hollywood's summer and fall tentpoles - proving once again that they are proud of being "first to be second."
This film has been rated RATED PG-13 by the MPAA for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence
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