Do we really expect these movies to be good at this point? Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the all-time worst parody movies.
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00:00You have won a dinner for two, at a restaurant.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the all-time worst parody movies.
00:10Burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp.
00:17Number 20, not another teen movie.
00:19It's just a girl's locker room, I'm sure it's no sexier in there than it is in here.
00:24Hey Molly, can you help me take off my panty?
00:28There's one fundamental problem with this movie, it parodies films that are already funny.
00:33Even worse, those movies are infinitely funnier.
00:36Parody works best when it's making fun of something that takes itself seriously,
00:40whereas not another teen movie parodies teen comedies like She's All That and American Pie.
00:44And, you know, we wouldn't mind so much if the jokes and observations were actually funny, but they're not.
00:51The gags are predictable and lack originality, relying heavily on toilet humor and tired stereotypes.
00:57While there are some decent moments, the movie is way more miss than hit,
01:01with its reliance on gross-out bits overshadowing any genuine wit.
01:05Oh no, Jake.
01:07Way too much information would be telling you that after they're done, I always take a huge dump.
01:12Number 19, dance flick.
01:14Honey, you hungry?
01:16Can I borrow you to help me with my homework?
01:18Special delivery for Megan.
01:21Kenan Ivory Wayans directed the first scary movie,
01:24a legendary parody and a touchstone of early 2000s pop culture.
01:28Dance Flick, directed by Kenan's younger brother Damian, is like the ninth entry in a horror franchise.
01:34It sort of looks like the original, but it's lost all the charm.
01:37Dance Flick tries to do for musical dance films what Scary Movie did for, well, scary movies.
01:43But the jokes are forced, relying on easy slapstick humor and goofy dance sequences that fail to land on their feet.
01:49The film lacks any sense of comedic choreography,
01:52often going for the simplest laugh instead of crafting smart or original scenarios.
01:57Damn, Nora, you are so mean.
02:00Not mean, just real.
02:02Number 18, Casino Royale.
02:04Now be a good girl, run along and watch the changing of the guard.
02:07I bet mommy would have taken me in.
02:09Mommy took everyone in.
02:11Ever since its release in 1967, Casino Royale has caused a lot of confusion.
02:16Despite being based on an Ian Fleming novel, Casino Royale was not a proper James Bond film owing to rights disputes.
02:23The producer who owned the rights decided not to compete with Eon Productions and made a spoof instead.
02:29But everyone involved knew it was going to be terrible.
02:32And sure enough, following a disastrous production, the movie was released to strong numbers but horrible reviews.
02:39Many criticized its sloppy and meandering structure and the 131-minute runtime certainly did not help.
02:46That's longer than most Bond films.
02:48Listen, you can't shoot me.
02:50I have a very low threshold of death.
02:53My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
02:57Number 17, Superhero Movie.
02:59You do there.
03:01It's easier than it looks.
03:05Ah!
03:08No, I don't think so.
03:10This one really should have been a home run.
03:12It was released during a superhero boom, playing on the likes of Batman Begins and Spider-Man.
03:17It stars a number of scary movie veterans like Regina Hall, Leslie Nielsen, and Simon Rex.
03:23It was even directed by Craig Mazin, who wrote the very good Scary Movie 3.
03:27Yet it crashed harder than Iron Man.
03:30The film relies too heavily on juvenile humor and cheap gags instead of clever satire or observational comedy on superhero tropes.
03:37These jokes are way too easy to make, not to mention generally unfunny.
03:41And it seems like the actors are not really invested in the material.
03:45But hey, it's always nice seeing Leslie Nielsen.
03:48Ah, the rituals of manhood.
03:50Today you have your first beer and tomorrow we'll circumcise you.
03:53Number 16, Dracula, Dead and Loving It.
03:56She's alive?
03:58She's Nosferatu.
04:00She's Italian?
04:02All right, well, we must admit, as much as we love Leslie Nielsen, he has starred in a few stinkers.
04:08Long before superhero movie came Dracula, Dead and Loving It, a spoof of the general Dracula mythos.
04:14With Nielsen in the lead and the legendary Mel Brooks behind the camera, we don't know where or how this film went wrong.
04:20But went wrong it did, greatly lacking the biting wit of Brooks' earlier works.
04:25Pretty much all the jokes fell flat, whether from poor comedic timing, general laziness or subpar performances.
04:31It received overwhelmingly negative reviews and bombed at the box office.
04:35And it was the last film that Brooks ever directed.
04:38Take this one out in the sun and let it melt.
04:41Your eyelids are getting heavy.
04:44You'll feel the...
04:46Renfield, you fell asleep too soon.
04:50Number 15, Ricky Won.
04:53Up you go, great, great.
04:58You know the saying, strike while the iron is hot?
05:01Well, Ricky Won certainly did not.
05:03This film about a male gigolo who becomes a boxer is a parody of Rocky.
05:07Only it came out over 10 years after the original film.
05:10In fact, it was released after Rocky IV, which, let's admit, is basically a self-parody of the franchise anyway.
05:17With production values that seem held together by duct tape, Ricky Won was cheaply made and entirely forgettable.
05:23Have you ever heard of it? Exactly.
05:25We wouldn't mind the low-budget jankiness if the movie were funny.
05:29But let's just say it's not competing for the comedy belt anytime soon.
05:34Why'd you bring me here, dummy?
05:36For inspiration, dude.
05:38Inspiration for what?
05:39Number 14, Repossessed.
05:41That old geezer stopped slinging holy water years ago.
05:44Not before he kicked your slimy butt.
05:46No way! I could've taken him! The fight was fixed!
05:51We hate to keep adding Leslie Nielsen to this list, but we have to do it.
05:55Repossessed is a parody of The Exorcist, and its title serves as a nice bit of wordplay.
06:00You see, the movie follows Nancy Aglet, who is possessed twice, once in 1973 and again in 1990.
06:07Nancy is played by none other than Linda Blair, who played Reagan in The Exorcist.
06:12So, Blair herself is being repossessed.
06:14Unfortunately, that is the smartest thing in this otherwise terrible film.
06:19It lacks the intelligence and originality needed to make a successful parody,
06:23relying on gags and pop culture references that were dated even by 1990 standards.
06:28That's what happens when you parody a movie that's already 17 years old.
06:31Mom looks terrible.
06:34Well, they say TV does add 10 pounds to you.
06:37Number 13, Spy Hard.
06:39There's only one man for this operation.
06:42Agent WD-40, Steele.
06:45Dick Steele.
06:47Uh, yep, it's Leslie Nielsen again.
06:50In this one, he plays secret agent Dick Steele, who has the codename WD-40.
06:55Are you laughing yet? If you're not, then this movie has little for you.
07:00Spy Hard is another parody of the James Bond franchise,
07:03coming just one year before the infinitely superior Austin Powers.
07:07Critics noted that Nielsen's schtick was starting to get old,
07:10and that the movie copied the general style of the Naked Gun films without a fraction of their wit.
07:15Director Rick Friedberg has acknowledged the poor quality of the film,
07:18claiming that Disney interfered and cut entire sequences to make the film more family-friendly.
07:24Rick Scott!
07:28Steele, see a doctor!
07:30Number 12, Plump Fiction.
07:33Hello, Jimmy.
07:35Hey, turn it down, will ya?
07:39Despite its title, Plump Fiction isn't just a parody of Pulp Fiction.
07:43It's more a parody of Tarantino's style and the type of violent, transgressive films he helped usher in in the early 90s.
07:49But those movies have more artistry in one minute than Plump Fiction does in its entire 82,
07:55with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
07:58It seems like no one likes this movie or what it was attempting to do.
08:01Yes, Tarantino films are ripe for parody,
08:04and indeed, they have been parodied successfully on many occasions.
08:08But not in Plump Fiction.
08:10Like that guy in the bathroom, this movie missed every shot it took,
08:14and it led to equally baffled reactions.
08:22Number 11, A Haunted House.
08:24I'm Father Doug.
08:27I'm here to unpossess you.
08:29Marlon Wayans already poked fun at the haunted house genre in Scary Movie 2,
08:33so right out the gate, this film was treading some well-worn ground.
08:37However, despite its title, A Haunted House isn't specifically taking aim at that genre,
08:43but the general found footage fad of the 2000s.
08:45While that subgenre is ripe for the picking,
08:48A Haunted House couldn't capitalize on its own promise,
08:51often settling for raunchiness and easy jokes.
08:54Scary Movie 2 was no masterpiece itself, but it sure looks like one next to this.
08:58I can't sell a house on this market.
09:00Immediate possession.
09:02Number 10, Fifty Shades of Black.
09:05Can I show you some love?
09:07Come on! Come on!
09:09Regardless of your opinion on them, the Fifty Shades series has been a bit of a laughingstock in recent years.
09:14Did we really need a parody of a movie that no one took seriously in the first place?
09:18With Fifty Shades of Black, Marlon Wayans attempts to recapture his glory days of Scary Movie,
09:23but Scary Movie this is not.
09:26We suppose the message of female empowerment was well-intentioned,
09:29but the movie is nevertheless filled with gags that miss far more than they hit,
09:33complete with the typical serving of lame, racist, gross-out and sex jokes.
09:38And for May, of course, we have Peking Duck from the Mandarin province of China.
09:43I'm Korean. Don't refresh me.
09:45Number 9, Leonard Part 6.
09:49Go easy, Monroe.
09:53It's not like anybody's running to consume any media that involves Bill Cosby these days,
09:57but even against his current reputation, this movie is terrible.
10:02Leonard Part 6 is a spy parody from the mind of Cosby himself,
10:06who produced, conceptualized and starred in the movie.
10:09It was an absolute travesty, and Bill Cosby himself even told his fans to ignore it,
10:15as he had zero faith in the finished product.
10:23The director, Paul Weiland, would also disown the movie,
10:26calling it, quote, a mistake that was bred from Bill Cosby's power
10:30and Weiland's inability to argue his creative decisions.
10:33Cosby's warnings turned out to be successful,
10:36as the movie was a massive bomb that quickly and rightfully faded into obscurity.
10:41The whole movie is a mess, and even though Cosby has disowned it,
10:45he cannot escape all the blame. I don't think so.
10:48Number 8, Breaking Wind.
10:51God, I knew I should have taken those stupid shrimp tacos
10:54from that Guadalajara street vendor last night.
10:58Before we get into the heart of our criticism,
11:00let's just sit for a second and ponder the existence of a movie titled Breaking Wind.
11:05Yeah, you can just tell this one wasn't gonna be very good.
11:08Oh, my bad.
11:09Breaking Wind serves as a Twilight parody, and surprisingly, the cast isn't too bad.
11:14The woman who played Amy on The Walking Dead is here,
11:17as is everyone's favorite badass, Danny Trejo.
11:20But aside from the casting, there are no redeemable qualities to this movie.
11:24It isn't just lame and unfunny, it's mean-spirited.
11:27It directly makes fun of real Twilight fans,
11:30and constantly cracks jokes at the idea of gay marriage.
11:33It's a mess from every angle.
11:35It's really gay.
11:37Number 7, Scary Movie 5.
11:40Look at that form, that technique.
11:42The first Scary Movie was not half bad,
11:45and then they just kept coming, and coming, and coming.
11:50Thirteen years after the original,
11:52Dimension Films released the fifth installment in the series,
11:55and it was more terrible than we could have imagined.
11:58So hungry.
12:04Is that all?
12:05PR has a weight limit.
12:06Series veterans Anna Faris and Regina Hall sat this one out,
12:10and their presences are sadly missed.
12:13No one in the movie is particularly funny,
12:15and even the gags, which spoof movies like Inception, Black Swan, and Mama,
12:19were stale and out of date.
12:21It seems as if thirteen years worth of the same tired jokes
12:24has robbed them of their funniness.
12:31Number 6, Vampire Suck.
12:34Oh, I'm a vampire. Duh.
12:37That was my next guess.
12:39The best we can say about Vampire Suck
12:41is that Jen Prosk does a damn good Kristen Stewart.
12:44Vampire Suck is also a spoof of Twilight,
12:47and it's just as bad, if not worse, than Breaking Wind.
12:50This movie contained nothing but empty jokes
12:53that consisted of your typical head bonks and groin hits.
12:56Oh my God, there is Edward, we love you, you're the best.
12:59No, Jacob's the best.
13:03People bending over in pain after being hit in the crotch
13:05may have been funny like 5,000 years ago,
13:08but we expect a little more from our humor today.
13:11Mace will only temporarily stop your attacker.
13:14You have to hit a man where he breathes, Becca.
13:18Despite being completely panned by critics,
13:20the movie ended up grossing $80 million at the box office,
13:24proving that there is, in fact, an audience for these movies.
13:27Edward Sullen, he's a complete hottie.
13:31Number 5, Date Movie.
13:33Idiot, hell no, I won't marry you. God!
13:36In the mid-2000s, theaters were plagued with these movie movies,
13:40and every single one of them was a laugh-free travesty.
13:44Date Movie may not be as bad as some of the others,
13:46but don't confuse that with it being good.
13:54Date Movie has a good cast that includes Allison Hannigan and Fred Willard,
13:58but their talents are completely wasted on a script
14:01that believes constant toilet humor and fat suits are funny.
14:04Date Movie is nothing but a pop culture reference machine,
14:08and an unfunny one at that.
14:11Number 4, Meet the Spartans.
14:19Meet the Spartans may not have the word movie in its title,
14:22but it comes from the same directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer,
14:26and it is just as bad as the rest of them.
14:29As you can imagine, Meet the Spartans is mostly a lampoon of Zack Snyder's 300,
14:33and it comes with all the predictable gay jokes,
14:37Like Date Night, Meet the Spartans also contained less jokes
14:40and more random pop culture references,
14:42as if us recognizing the reference is supposed to be funny.
14:45We don't think they know how comedy works.
15:07Number 3, Epic Movie.
15:14Epic Movie is Friedberg and Seltzer's attempt at lampooning various blockbuster movies
15:18like The Chronicles of Narnia and X-Men.
15:21You know exactly what you're getting into simply by reading the tagline,
15:24which proudly states,
15:28The rest of the movie follows suit,
15:30as it's filled with childish humor that only a 12-year-old boy might find funny.
15:34We say might, because even that's a stretch.
15:42Epic Movie was an earlier entry in the movie series,
15:45but its box office gross of 86 million dollars ensured
15:48there would be plenty more in the years to follow.
15:51Hooray!
15:59Number 2, The Starving Games.
16:05For The Starving Games,
16:07Friedberg and Seltzer attempted to tackle, you guessed it,
16:10The Hunger Games.
16:12Like their previous works,
16:13this is a movie filled with completely random pop culture references,
16:17comic violence and horrible attempts at satire.
16:20However, unlike their previous works,
16:22there is no star power to speak of here.
16:35Whereas before, they snagged Fred Willard,
16:37Alison Hannigan and Cal Penn.
16:39There is no one in The Starving Games
16:41who can even attempt to draw your attention away
16:44from the horrible jokes on screen.
16:46But then again, there is absolutely no saving this juvenile,
16:49crass and stale excuse for a movie.
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17:13Number 1, Disaster Movie.
17:23Okay, we think you get it by now.
17:25Friedberg's Seltzer movies are bad
17:27and they are full of horrible jokes
17:29that would struggle to make even an immature kid laugh.
17:32But Disaster Movie is something else.
17:34As you can imagine,
17:35the movie is a riff on various disaster movies.
17:38But unlike good parodies,
17:40it has nothing to say about the genre it lampoons.
17:43Look at me!
17:44Look at this!
17:46It's a lobster claw!
17:47It was deemed the team's worst movie yet
17:50and unlike their previous works,
17:52it performed poorly at the box office,
17:54proving that even the duo's most devout fans
17:56had finally had enough of their random,
17:58offensive and childish sense of humor.
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