Disaster! The Movie (Unrated Edition)

• In the satirical spirit of ROBOT CHICKEN and TEAM AMERICA, DISASTER! is a Claymation spoof of action blockbusters with bloated budgets. When scientists discover that an asteroid is on a collision course with earth, it's up to Harry Bottoms, Sandy Mellons, and V.D. Johnson to save the world. Featuring the voices of Motley Crue, DISASTER! takes aim at movies like ARMAGEDDON by using lots of scatolog

Genre: Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 6-JAN-2009
Media Type: DVDEven within the subgenre of grab-bag comedy, Disaster Movie sets a new bar for free-associative lunacy. To what degree there is a plot, it's vaguely stolen from Cloverfield: A handful of twentysomethings try to rescue someone in a city assaulted by an incomprehensible threat--in this case, falling asteroids. But that's just a thread on which to string a long and increasingly te! dious series of gestures towards recent movies (ranging from High School Musical to Enchanted to Sex and the City to Kung Fu Panda) and pop culture figures (Amy Winehouse to Flavor Flav to Dr. Phil to, of course, perpetual punching-bag Michael Jackson). No one over 30 will recognize more than a fraction of the movie's references, but the movie's bigger problem is that there are hardly any actual jokes--the filmmakers seem to think that simply alluding to Hancock or Jumper is funny in and of itself... and it just isn't. Disaster Movie will probably appeal to its primary audience of high-school students and repressed frat boys, for whom the mere mention of homosexuality prompts jittery laughter and who find generically pretty girls and studly boys in tight clothing titillating. It's a wasted opportunity; there are moments that, through sheer incompetence and desperation, suggest a surreal stream-of-consciousness. ! A filmmaker like Luis Bunuel or Federico Fellini could have tu! rned suc h raw matter into a satirical aria that would genuinely critique a culture that worships Paris Hilton. Instead, we get this. Featuring, as ever, Carmen Electra.--Bret Fetzer


Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: UrDISASTER MOVIE - DVD MovieSUPERHERO MOVIE (EXTENDED EDITION) - DVD MovieNo Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD