Epic Movie (2007)

A comedic satire of films that are large in scope, reputation and popularity

Directors:

Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Writers:

Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Stars:

Kal Penn, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard

Bottom Rated Movies #42 | 2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kal Penn	...	Edward
Adam Campbell	...	Peter Pervertsky
Jennifer Coolidge	...	White Bitch
Jayma Mays	...	Lucy
Faune Chambers Watkins	...	Susan Pervertsky (as Faune Chambers)
Crispin Glover	...	Willy Wonka
Tony Cox	...	Bink
Héctor Jiménez	...	Mr. Tumnus (as Hector Jimenez)
Darrell Hammond	...	Captain Jack Swallows
Carmen Electra	...	Mystique
Fred Willard	...	Aslo
David Carradine	...	Museum Curator
Kevin McDonald	...	Harry Potter
George Alvarez	...	Ron Weasley
Crista Flanagan	...	Hermione Granger

Storyline

Four troubled orphans from four separate movie scenarios who are bound together in a wacky chocolate factory after receiving golden tickets to go on an 'epic adventure.' After they escape from the clutches of a very scary Willy Wonka they discover the magical world of 'Gnarnia' through an enchanted wardrobe. There they must seek the help of a randy lion, a hoard of mutants from the x academy, students of witchcraft and wizardry, funky swash-buckling pirates and a mischievous beaver to defeat the evil white bitch!

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Plot Keywords:

orphan | student | chocolate factory | chocolate | factory | 

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Taglines:

We Know It's Big. We Measured.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and some comic violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 January 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Bob Bailey

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$18,612,544 (USA) (26 January 2007)

Gross:

$39,737,645 (USA) (27 April 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Paul Schiff Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min 93 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

(at around 8 mins) The high school used for "The Fighting Wolverines" is the same one used for the 1978 film _Grease_.

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Goofs

(at around 3 mins) When Silas attacks Lucy in the Louvre, his robe reveals his right leg, and it is dark instead of white (Silas' whole body is supposed to be albino).

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: This is the story of four orphans brought together by fate. They didn't know it yet, but there was something more greater in store for them, something epic.

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Crazy Credits

Multiple positions/titles are misspelled (intentionally) (seen in theaters

• unknown if this is included in DVD)

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: Breaking Wind (2013)

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Soundtracks

Funeral March
Composed by Nigel Ogden
Courtesy of Opus 1

User Reviews

Please refer to reviews on Date Movie

Some movies are funny, some are not. This movie may be funny to you, if you liked Date Movie, since both films are pretty much the same in cast and script quality.

Epic Movie is a loosely strung together collection of slap-stick comedy sketches based on various epic movies (Pirates of the Caribbean, Nacho Libre, Chronicles of Narnia, X-Men, Superman, etc...) so it's probably helpful if you have seen a few of the epics this movie takes off at, to understand the jokes used. (If you've seen the clips during MTV video awards, you get the idea on the kind of jokes I'm referring to). Epic Movie tries to cash in on the Scary Movie, Date Movie, "Movie" Movie franchise, but doesn't measure up to the originality shown in the Scary Movie series.

It doesn't take a genius to recommend that you save your box-office ticket money, and if you're interested, wait for the DVD, since this isn't an essential big screen movie.