Disaster Movie 2008

Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: Perhaps they'll eventually make one called Spoof Movie, which would brilliantly parody the genre by being consistently funny. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: Disaster Movie, the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: It's too easy to say Disaster Movie deserves its title, but why put more effort into trashing it than the filmmakers did into writing it? Read more

Michael Hardy, Boston Globe: No one spoofed in the film -- yes, including Jessica Simpson -- is more worthy of derision than the people responsible for making it. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Since many of the targets (Cloverfield, Hancock, Kung Fu Panda) already have a cheeky self-consciousness, the comedy rarely seems more than a hasty patchwork of cheap-shot allusions. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Embarrassment. It's a feeling you should get used to, Freidberg and Seltzer. May you never befoul another cinema with your grotesque comic abortions. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead? Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Disaster Movie is the latest and most slap-dash of the movie parodies to atrophy out of the Scary Movie franchise. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: The result is a series of extraneous, deplorably unfunny scenes and sketches stitched together in completely haphazard fashion. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Seldom has a pic been more appropriately titled than Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce from the unfortunately prolific writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Read more

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: Rushed into production with no better drape for its threadbare gags than Cloverfield, this carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores. Read more