And yet your email address is “twilightobsessed” and if you read Charlaine Harris’ Stackhouse Mysteries (which are adapted loosely to make True Blood on HBO), its pretty undeniable that most of Twilight was ripped off from those books. Oops.

I agree that these movies are mostly lame, but the art of spoofing is not a “ripoff” its a tribute or homage. If done right they are an artform all their own. These latest films of this genre just dont try very hard and they dont do spoofing very well at all.

I agree with Rocket why even watch it period. It’s stupid and so are the people who make all this movies. They have no thoughts of their own so they steal others. Kind of pathetic really.

Sorry, let me rephrase that:

Making spoof movies NOWADAYS equals fail.

Making a failed spoof movie is a fail.

Just because you don’t like the genre doesn’t mean they cant make a good one.

There are lots of spoofs out there that I like, but the recent trend is not my cup of tea.

Making spoof movies in general=FAIL

Here is an Interesting studio experiment: Remake “Airplane” with young stars, and a few modern airport references, and see how it performs against the new spoof form. If the “Airplane” remake did well, it would start a trend.

Until I see the old style return, I will probably see this and other spoofs. I need the silliness in my otherwise fenced-in life.

What these filmmakers seem to have not learned from classic spoofs like Airplane, Hot Shots, Naked Gun, Wrongfully Accused, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and pretty much everything Mel Brooks has done is that you don’t spoof particular films…you spoof the genre as a whole. You come up with the most cliched plot for that particular genre and you make all the main characters believe what they are doing. All of the actors have to play their parts as if they were real people. In other words…play it straight. Then you put these characters in the most ridiculous situations. For example: Airplane – serious “soap opera” style characters, we learn way too much back story about each of them, a hero who has a “dark” past, a rough and tough ex-pilot who has to guide them down – all singing a folk song on a plane. Or an old lady, usually played by an ex celebrity, talking jive. These are all cliches of, not just Airport, but ALL disaster films with a bizarre, off the wall moment to set it just off of normal.

When the actors play these cliched and predictable characters straight, that’s when the funny comes in. Throw in some crazy over the top stuff in the background that none of the main characters ever seem to see happening, mix in a few scenarios that don’t fit in that genre (ie: modern day film studio in Blazing Saddles or musical number in Robin Hood Men in Tights), break the fourth wall (ie: damn near every scene Charlie Sheen has in Hot Shots) and fill the credits with a few humorous credits…..and there you have it. That is what a true “spoof film”, as they are now called, should be.

Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, Dance Flick…these are just bad comedies. Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Top Secret, Young Frankenstein, Not Another Teen Movie, Silent Movie, Wrongfully Accused….these are classic spoofs that follow the classic and tried and true formula of good spoofs. Some better than others, true, but they follow it regardless.

Unfortunately, The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It looks like it will fit in the first group. Maybe one day the spoof will come back. But until then, it is an endangered art form.

Good movies