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Disaster Movie
Lionsgate

Disaster Movie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 15 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
1.3 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, drug references and comic violence

Starring Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, and Ike Barinholtz

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works – hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction. (Lionsgate)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg
 
DIRECTED BY: Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 6, 2009 
Theatrical: August 29, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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58
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie is merciless sending up "Juno's" self-satisfied hipster gobbledygook, and it's quite funny to see Hannah Montana still promoting her tie-in products as she lies crushed and dying under a meteor.
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40
Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
The product's not 100% giggle-free: Several songs have amusing lyrics, especially parodies of "Juno" and "High School Musical."
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25
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Lazy, superficially au courant and utterly forgettable.
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20
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
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20
The New York Times Nathan Lee
Does little more than congratulate its audience on recognizing the source of its riffs. "High School Musical" -- ha ha ha!
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20
The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber
Real disaster movies have more laughs than this spoof.
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20
Variety Joe Leydon
Seldom has a pic been more appropriately titled than Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce.
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20
Empire Glen Ferris
A horrific waste of time, money and oxygen.
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16
The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams
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?
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12
Boston Globe Michael Hardy
The filmmakers are idiots.
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0
LA Weekly Jim Ridley
This carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores.
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0
Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
There's no nice way to say this, so I'll just say it: Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 1.3 (out of 10) based on 135 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Overly funny, I mean what is there wrong to say about a movie like this, it's built to be silly!

Alex C gave it a0:
Attention, people who gave this a ten as a joke: you're not funny.

Diego L. gave it a0:
One of the worst "comedies" I've ever seen. If not THE worst.

Jay H gave it a3:
Not sure what the disaster in the title means, since it mocks a wide variety of films and celebrities. It is indeed a very bad film, but there is at least an occasional gag here and there that work, but no where near often enough. Gross, offensive and really stupid.

Matt T gave it a10:
Hmm.. Yes.. Certainly Random. However, it makes you laugh, im sure people are getting tired off these mickey take movies though, they've got to stop sometime

Fishbound Reviews gave it a0:
I won't even provide a review this time, because all I have to say is, IT WAS A DISASTER!!!

Mike C. gave it a10:
Witty, smart and oh so humorously clever, this movie sets the bar for the prestigious "Movie" genre. You all just aren't smart enough to get the subtleties of the jokes or of the magnificent writing.

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