Disaster Movie (2008)

Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.

Directors:

Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Writers:

Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Stars:

Matt Lanter, Vanessa Lachey, Nicole Parker

Bottom 100 #1 | 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matt Lanter	...	Will
Vanessa Lachey	...	Amy (as Vanessa Minnillo)
Gary 'G. Thang' Johnson	...	Calvin (as Gary 'G-Thang' Johnson)
Nicole Parker	...	Enchanted Princess / Amy Winehouse Look-A-Like / Jessica Simpson Look-A-Like
Crista Flanagan	...	Juney / Hannah Montana
Kim Kardashian	...	Lisa
Ike Barinholtz	...	Wolf / Javier Bardem Look-A-Like / Police Officer / Hellboy / Batman / Beowulf / Prince Caspian
Carmen Electra	...	Beautiful Assassin
Tony Cox	...	Indiana Jones
Tad Hilgenbrink	...	Prince
Nick Steele	...	Underwear Model
John Di Domenico	...	Dr. Phil Look-A-Like / Love Guru
Jason Boegh	...	Male Carrie
Valerie Wildman	...	Samantha
Abe Spigner	...	Flava-Flav Look-A-Like

Storyline

Will, Lisa, and two of their friends attempt to flee man-made and natural disasters and encounter Batman, Hancock, The Hulk, Indiana Jones, Hannah Montana, Michael Jackson, Beowulf, the Love Guru, Iron Man, rabid chipmunks amongst others in their seemingly vain efforts to seek help and shelter from unknown threats.

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Plot Keywords:

disaster | natural disaster | cell phone | hit with a frying pan | woman shot in the forehead | 

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Taglines:

Mother !@#?*% Nature.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, drug references and comic violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [au]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 August 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Goodie Two Shoes

Filming Locations:

USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£925,655 (UK) (5 September 2008)

Gross:

$14,174,654 (USA) (17 October 2008)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lionsgate, Grosvenor Park Media, 3 in the Box

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min 88 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Film critic Louis Fehrey was furious after he saw the film, claiming that it insulted his intelligence, the intelligence of the American people, and the intelligence of cinema. As "revenge", Fehrey spent weeks collecting every single American review of the film. He then published an article in USA Today, stating that 98.7% of "Disaster Movie" reviews were negative.

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Goofs

Juney sings "I just sold the baby to the highest bidder on eBay," but the website she's on is called "Upay" not eBay.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Will: [after falling face-first into a pile of feces in his dream] Oh, shit.

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Connections

Referenced in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: The Last Exorcism/Piranha 3D/Vampires Suck (2010)

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Soundtracks

"My Dear Prince 2"
Written by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Ali Dee (as Ali Theodore),
Joey Katsaros (as Joseph Katsaros) and Alana Da Fonseca
Performed by The Cast

User Reviews

Never EVER make a bet with your "friends"

If you saw the other previous spoof movies by these two horrible gentlemen, then you should know that this already will be bad. I'll tell you the truth, if you want to watch it as a brainless person (ironically meant for the stereotypical teenagers, which I am not) then you will laugh at it a bit. But if you judge it, even a little, the movie automatically fails. Why? Never ask that when it comes to these two men.

Remember the good old Hollywood days whenever making a movie was about showing people a type of art, and also a story that kept you on the edge of your seat? Well whenever word hit that making films earned you loads of cash, then all these greedy people came in the picture and its quite pathetic. These two are no exception. We still have movie artists (most notably the genius that is Christopher Nolan). But these two guys just...well I've been writing so big words, let me put it in simple terms for these guys...These guys suck, they are not artists, but instead money craving whores. And their latest movie proves this even more so.

The movie fails so easily its mind blowing. I mean nothing was funny in the trailer, and people usually put the best stuff in them (like idiots sometimes).

I knew it was going to be bad, but I made a bet with my "friends" and that wasn't a good idea at all. I have to write movie reviews in a paper and tell everyone whats good and whats bad, same for my friends. We flipped on who has to review it...Why me? Well I'm warning you at least. It shouldn't even be called a movie, nothing about it is artistic or original. The jokes..I'm sorry, the references are made throughout at pretty much random, like the Hannah Montana or the Juno gig (they were actually close to spoofing it, but failed by referencing instead of joking and twisting it).

Oh and please, the random wrestling scene? I don't know about you other guys, but I have high respect for women, and I have a high respect for film-making. What I do know is you shouldn't have something in a movie that doesn't add up to the story or anything. Nudity is not really needed (Titanic was the closest exception, but still you would've gotten the idea if you only saw her bare legs.) Now I hate it when a girl says all guys are the same, perverts and brainless (and if you disagree with what I said about the nudity in a film, you might be one of them unless you actually believe it has a point), and sadly this film just makes that stereotype a little bigger. Thats if anyone watches it, which hahahaha!!! By the way, when I said movies should have scenes and only scenes that add up to the main plot, that was the ticket right there to say that this movie fails. Yup, just like that. Perhaps I'm grading too hard for these guys. I mean its a brainless movie...Nope, they deserve it. Besides thats the best part about reviewing a bad movie, you get to rip it inside out. Thats if you know how to grade a movie correctly.

But lastly (well I've got about 4 scores worth of bad movies I need to write about, but whatever) the main idea about spoofing was brand new when Airplane! came out. Same with Naked Gun. And whenever something random came into play, the story was still progressing. For example, the arrow in Airplane! shooting out of nowhere: random, yes, but the story was still movie and no one was distracted except the audience. Perfect. Naked Gun, not only was it spoofing cop films and others, but it also had its own jokes. Same with Airplane! Anyways this movie was made for money, not to tell people a story. Simple as that, and never flip a dang coin to determine something that could be life threatening.

I give it a 1 out of a 10. Just do yourself a favor and watch good movies, or mediocre for that matter.