Disaster Movie

I know it's hard to believe, but I couldn't find any existing threads discussing this movie.

Okay, this is not a good movie. It isn't funny, and it's as bad as you already know it to be. That said, it is the purest form of "reference movie" I have ever seen. There is only the slightest of throughlines, and it just keeps moving into to the next unfunny reference with no genuine connection. Like Emmerich and 2012 it is the fulfillment of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's filmmaking careers*, and it is proof that the very act of editing causes the audience to draw connection.

If I didn't know any better I might even say that this was intentional anti comedy. The only saving grace in this film is Nicole Parker's Enchanted Princess character (and the only reason I bring this movie up). I can only assume the character is a complete invention by the actress as nothing else like her exists in the rest of the Ref-o-verse of Friedberg and Seltzer.

I wouldn't recommend anyone go out and watch this movie. It's righfully avoided, so in order for you to appreciate this bizarre anomaly I searched youtube for some clips of the character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3KR...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkw6Ipi8QXk&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiCW...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDPh-XBYvW4

Just ponder these scenes amidst a wasteland of bland unfunny jokes and non sequitir transitions to new references.

*So they can stop. They should stop. Stop.

I actually have Showtime. I think as movies they're all shit, but sometimes they'll have one or two clever bits. I find comedies with no laughs fascinating, so I'll sometimes catch these on cable. Only saw a few bits from Superhero Movie, but it did benefit from having Christopher McDonald's comedic timing.

Yeah, I thought the scene in Enchanted where Amy Adams delightfully ate glass because she was hungry was out of place, but I think it works in this one. So "completely" is obviously not the right word. To clarify, I mean the decision to take the parody to such a weird place.

I think it would be interesting to see someone with more avant garde sensibilities, competent direction, and weird make a Lynchian type reference movie. No discernable plot, pure reference, pure experience, and it just cuts off after about 90 minutes. Call it Lynch Movie.