Spoof movies used to rule the comedy market. Naked Gun, Airplane, Top Secret, Hot Shots. Now they are just needless crap. Sometimes you get a half decent one that borders on clever, but a less smelly pile of crap is still crap. So keeping with the reign of tasteless entertainment, the makers of the upcoming Disaster Movie have spoofed Amy Winehouse to make a video game to promote the film.
Winehouse is the star of a new controversial video game called Escape From Rehab, reports NME.com.
In the game being used to promote a new film parody, Disaster Movie, the singer fights superheroes like the Hulk and Batman with her crack pipe.
I usually roll my eyes with disdain when the media takes advantage of a downtrodden fallen star for the sake of their own amusement, but I just can’t stop laughing at this one.
Amy Winehouse is a tragedy. I had once thought her to be a one hit wonder and couldnt see why everyone was lopping all this praise on this washed up substance abusing unattractive bone pile. And the irony that her one hit would be called “Rehab” when it should have been called “Denial”. But then I saw one of her earlier jazz/soul performances before she fell to drugs and alcohol. Holy crap this girl had it. All of it. I would really like to see this girl turn it around, but in the mean time she has dragged this out so long that you don’t have a lot of hope.
So long in fact, that now she’s a standing joke.
Winehouse was originally supposed to be scribing the latest Bond theme, but that got shifted to Alicia Keys. Apparently Amy intends to release the single she produced on the same day that the studios are unveiling the Keys theme song for Quantum of Solace. Winehouse thinks they made a mistake passing her by and wants to prove it by putting her single head to head with the Keyes theme.
too bad Winehouse lost that James Bond gig, she has a unique sound, would have done the job admirably
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Very good blog.I love the songs………..
I would love to hear both Amy’s and Alicia’s Bond Theme songs. I wish Winehouse would get it together.
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when will whinehouse learn that she is so 1988 …so you smoke crack….who the hell hasnt….so you a mess on the inside…who hasn been there…only differance is your fucking rich…..your a sad piece of cunt flap that makes songs that get grammies about saying no to rehab…..my words are so harsh cause you have let millions of people down by allowing yourself to make a song that plays on the radio for 15 year old girls…what a influence….i hope u slip on something and stab your eye with a broken crack pipe which leads to a bad infection where u need to get all limbs amputated and eventually you die from your boyfriend leaving you!…then he dies!
@ Mr. Chris you know I think I would rather watch a dog pooping on an infant than ever sit through one of these films. Come to think of it, I kinda want to watch a dog pooping on an infant anyway.
Disaster movie, just it’s name explains it
Tropic Thunder btw, falls into the category of spoof movie. Its a spoof movie for the 21st not last century. Actors parodying themselves if you will. Ben Stiller is probably the best person for the job.
I am pretty sure they are putting out low brow potty humour for the Jackass crowd and KNOWING that its just for the money.
Just sayin.
I would really love to have a conversation with the makers of this “film”-series.
It would be interesting to know if they really think that this garbage is in any way funny or if they are just cynical assholes who know that they produce shit but do it anyway just to get the cash.
I don’t really know which version I would find more alarming.
I absolutely thrive on fart jokes and immature humor, and yet these Friedberg and Seltzer movies are among some of the worst things I’ve ever seen, and I once watched a dog poop on a baby.
I get it that the movies are low budget and it’s easy to bring in profit, but why do they all have to be written by these two untalented bozos? I’m sure you could bring in some guy off the street and he’ll write a much better joke than Iron Man showing up, saying “I am Iron Man,” and then getting hit by a cow. What does that even have to do with parodying Iron Man? How about Iron Man firing nerf balls at somebody, or blow-drying his hair with his thrusters? It’s not great, but at least I’m working with the source material. Friedberg and Seltzer seem to get all their inspiration from tabloids and movie trailers.
Touche’
To quote White Goodman, “Toche'”
It’s most likely a flash game. And my god, I just saw a Disaster Movie TV ad. All I could think of is shouting out loud, “Godammit people, don’t watch this garbage.” You don’t need critics to tell you that.
Regardless of how the content is appreciated, it is still done in parody. Vicious parody it may be, but it is still parody.
To compare this to Ledger’s death and the potential of Amy Winehouse headed that way, I would almost suspect that if she DID die of overdose because of her abuse the joke wouldn’t be funny anymore and they would avoid spoofing her.
I already stated that these movies are tasteless, so why should their shameless promotions be any less tasteless?
Yeah but snl usually does parodies in a funny cheeky way. This just sounds vicious, especially when it’s someone who needs mental help. Last time I checked snl didn’t parody ledgers death which is where winehouses life looks like it’s heading if she doesn’t straighten up.
Copyright law allows you to use a name and likeness as long as it is in parody.
Saturday Night Live parodies stuff every week and never gets permission.
Wow, not only those movies are unfunny and tasteless, the marketing for it is also.
Don’t they need her permission to use her as a character in a video game?
Concerning that Bond-song thing:
I doubt that she will release the song she produced. I can’t be really anything good. Mark Ronson, who worked with her on it said after the session that she was in no condition to record at the moment. It’s a shame really. I’m a fan of Jack White of course and don’t mind Alicia Keys as well, but a (proper) Mark Ronson produced Amy Whinehouse-song would have been kick-ass no doubt. Maybe next time.
Hot Shots was just as horrible as any of the spoof movies that come out these days.
The others you listed were pretty good though.