Friedberg and Seltzer to Spoof Superbad?

Posted by Nathan Deen (nathan@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 2, 2008 Share

Jonah Hill and Michael Cera in Superbad

Normally, I’m very straightforward in writing news stories and for FSR articles, I throw in a little of my opinion. But here, I’m going all out. I’m talking about a Robert Fure ‘Boiling Point,’ Kevin Carr ‘WTF’ rant.

Retards, excuse me, directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans) are back at it again, already planning their next parody. So which movies will feel the wrath? According to Moviehole, Superbad along with this summer’s Hancock, Sex and the City, and The Love Guru are among the unfortunate victims, but will you be among the unfortunate viewers.

Wait a minute. Superbad? They’re spoofing a sex comedy? Allow me to borrow a line from Carr: What the double fuck? It just goes to show the amount of vision, creativity and imagination these two bastards have, which would be none. Seriously, their scripts are handed to them on a platter because they are straight from other movies. Can’t they at least come up with some decent jokes? I’d like to see them try and get someone to laugh at an actor trying to mock McLovin. Christopher Mintz-Plasse created a true original character, so whoever they find to play him will fail miserably. What I’d really like to see after this giant pile of vomit comes out is for Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen to lash back and make a spoof out of Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans. Now that would be a sight!

The only good thing these two shitheads filmmakers are good for is giving me hope that I can someday make it in Hollywood. Here we have two guys with absolutely no talent who should be flipping burgers somewhere, making more money than you or I probably ever will just by turning out one piece of shit spoof movie after another. They actually made $25 million dollars on opening weekend with Meet the Spartans! $25 million fucking dollars! That’s more than enough to fund their next catastrophe.

So this is where I turn my voice toward you, the reader. These guys can and must be stopped. All it takes is one box office flop to put them in their place. Okay, maybe two because it wouldn’t surprise anyone if these persistent cockroaches failed to learn their lesson after the first time.

Perhaps it is the general public that should have learned their lesson the first, or second time around. Was Date Movie funny? No. Was Epic Movie funny? No, it was ten times worse. But did that stop millions from completely wasting their money on Meet the Spartans? Did people actually walk into the theater thinking that this might be better than their previous two efforts? If so, it’s a phenomenon that boggles the mind.

You can put an end to the cancerous plague they are spreading into the multiplexes just by doing your part. All you have to do is stay at home and avoid their movie. I realize that in the dirges of January, it can be tempting, but seriously, go to fucking Blockbuster if you absolutely have to see a movie for that weekend.

I personally have had enough. If I want to give away my hard earned money to retards, I’ll donate it to charity. Okay, maybe I’ll stop right there. Maybe I’m getting too carried away. As Fure would say, I’m way past my boiling point on this one.

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  • Szilard
    Well, hate me or not, I liked the Meet The Spartans. I agree, it's not the top of the comedies, but worth a look. Maybe even twice. Leonidas of the 300 was amusingly and flawlessly played. Other parts were a bit painful like the pingvin or the oracles - but overall it's fine.

    The Epic, well I agree, it's less than sh.t. I saw it once and never felt the urge to repeat.
  • rick
    That's it, someone has to behead these guys for the good of the common man.
  • As far as what the movie's title will be, The current spoof cycle can easily make money without one. They can just mash together movie photos and not name the thing and it will be a success.
  • Look, I'm not going to argue that Mazin is a comedic genius like Brooks, but there's a huge chasm between Brooks and F/S, and Mazin is certainly somewhere in the middle.

    The ads for Superhero Movie weren't great, and Mazin - like most directors - probably had nothing to do with them. Chalk that up to the ad/PR/marketing department. But the movie itself was funny. It was funny in the way Scary Movie 1 was funny. And that's what matters.

    There's two schools here. Brooks with high and low brow mixes and then there's everyone else. Young Frankenstein isn't at all the same movie that Airplane is. Who could get away with doing a spoof movie in black and white now anyway? Of course, I won't even dig deeper into the difference between a specific story being spoofed v. a genre being spoofed.

    The point is, Mazin is more talented than F/S, and I feel like his box office probably suffered because the marketing department chose to piggyback on a meme that isn't actually drawing in that many fans. Like you said, if they had made a funnier ad campaign that didn't mimic Epic Movie, they might have appealed to a real audience.

    Just saying - if you told me I was no Mel Brooks, I'd feel flattered just to be in the same sentence with Mel Brooks.
  • tha plow
    the only reason these guys make a living is because stupid 14-year olds actually like this crap.
  • Craig Mazin’s almost (not quite, but almost) as big a hack as Friedberg and Seltzer. And his blog only serve to illustrate what a humorless, pompous dork he is. The ads for Superhero Movie were laughless; although admittedly not outright gut-wrenching like one of F/S’s turds. But if anything he should have benefited from the success of his slightly less talented peers.

    Know who made great spoofs? Mel Brooks. Young Frankenstein was a spoof and it's one of my favorite comedies of all time. That what Friedberg and Seltzer do is considered spoof craps all over Mel's legacy.
  • Wait...I just had another thought. What if Friedberg and Seltzer are spoofing movies that haven't come out yet because their plan is to spoof movies further and further into the future until they start spoofing films that don't even exist - at which point they'll be creating something original themselves for a change.

    They are baby-stepping their way toward creativity, people! Don't impede their progress!
  • I think the biggest victim here is Craig Mazin. The guy has a decent amount of talent - his humor isn't super high brow or anything, but it's usually executed pretty well. And when he releases "Superhero Movie", people automatically assume it's associated with the other crappy spoofs and, thus, will suck. But it was actually funny. Because Mazin understands spoofing.

    He's posted as much on his blog about the difference between a real spoof and what Friedberg and Seltzer and their ilk are doing - which is just mimicry really.

    Case in point:

    When you check out Superhero Movie on IMDB, it recommends The Naked Gun, DEBS, and Spy Hard as movies you also might enjoy. When you look up Meet the Spartans, it suggests you try Date Movie, Epic Movie and Scary Movie 4.

    Essentially, you'll only like Friedberg/Seltzer fare if you already like Friedberg/Seltzer fare. Of coure, Mazin wrote for Scary Movie 4, but we all have off days right? Hell, Jim Abrahams wrote for Scary Movie 4.

    And the title will be: Comedy Movie. Just a guess. And the only way to stop this scourge is to let it play out until they make Movie Movie. Once you go meta, you can't go back.
  • Personally, I'm curious about what the title will be... "Teen Sex Comedy Movie" or "Uncategorized Blockbuster Movie" or "Crappy Spoof Movie"...

    the world is eager to know.
  • Chris
    Kevin makes some great points, but left out the biggest one... by the time these films hit DVD (or even on occassion, the theater), their jokes are already played out and stale. 15 minutes of fame, pop culture crap, references date the films these morons make, but yet they seem to be winning formulas for some reason? Great for those fast food cinema watchers who just want to ingest garbage, bad for those who want substance and (dare I say) story and plot?

    Look at the spoof movies of yester-year... Airplane!, the Naked Gun films, and even Top Secret!. Those movies are still for the most part funny today due to the fact the filmmakers didn't focus on making a reference to what's going on at the time. All these films are, are time capsule flicks. Tom Cruise is hot? Okay... let's make a joke about him, not caring if five minutes from now nobody will understand/care about what we're referencing. It's sad.

    I'll admit, I did laugh at a lot of "Scary Movie", and some of "Scary Movie 2" (do I have to turn in my movie-lover badge now?), but those laughs came from things that DIDN'T play on the whole pop culture reference deal. That's why I didn't even bother with any spoof movie that came after it.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go work on my script for "Internet Movie"... a feature length spoof about this post that will most likely go before the cameras in two years. I certainly hope the scene I wrote that takes place in an internet cafe where the two main characters discuss George Bush and how he relates to the Weinstein's deplorable treatment of the film "Fanboys" is still fresh!
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