Product Details

• Actors: Carmen Electra, Vanessa Minnillo, Nicole Parker, Matt Lanter, G. Thang
• Directors: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
• Writers: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
• Producers: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg, Hal Olofsson, Jerry P. Jacobs
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001J710YI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,033 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Disaster Movie (Unrated Widescreen)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Even within the subgenre of grab-bag comedy, Disaster Movie sets a new bar for free-associative lunacy. To what degree there is a plot, it's vaguely stolen from Cloverfield: A handful of twentysomethings try to rescue someone in a city assaulted by an incomprehensible threat--in this case, falling asteroids. But that's just a thread on which to string a long and increasingly tedious series of gestures towards recent movies (ranging from High School Musical to Enchanted to Sex and the City to Kung Fu Panda) and pop culture figures (Amy Winehouse to Flavor Flav to Dr. Phil to, of course, perpetual punching-bag Michael Jackson). No one over 30 will recognize more than a fraction of the movie's references, but the movie's bigger problem is that there are hardly any actual jokes--the filmmakers seem to think that simply alluding to Hancock or Jumper is funny in and of itself... and it just isn't. Disaster Movie will probably appeal to its primary audience of high-school students and repressed frat boys, for whom the mere mention of homosexuality prompts jittery laughter and who find generically pretty girls and studly boys in tight clothing titillating. It's a wasted opportunity; there are moments that, through sheer incompetence and desperation, suggest a surreal stream-of-consciousness. A filmmaker like Luis Bunuel or Federico Fellini could have turned such raw matter into a satirical aria that would genuinely critique a culture that worships Paris Hilton. Instead, we get this. Featuring, as ever, Carmen Electra.--Bret Fetzer

Product Description

OVER THE COURSE OF ONE EVENING, AN UNSUSPECTING GROUP OF TWENTY-SOMETHINGS FIND THEMSELVES BOMBARDED BY A SERIES OF NATURAL DISASTERS & CATASTROPHIC EVENTS.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Recipe for the film, December 11, 2008

By	Denzel Lockheart "Up the Irons" (Edmonton, Canada) - See all my reviews

INGREDIENTS:
2nd rate actors and comedians
Endless sex jokes
Unsubtle humor
Dumbed down Slapstick
Movies that aren't disaster flicks
Cliche'd jokes everyone's tired of hearing
Two talentless directors
A script full of all of the above

DIRECTIONS:

1. Take the two talentless directors and give them the aforementioned script.

2. Then, put in endless sex jokes and pop culture refrences.

3. Have lame jokes, such as Iron Man getting hit by a cow.

4. Hire a bunch of second rate comedians and actors to play the characters.

5. Don't reshoot any scenes. Rush it as fast as you can so that you can get that paycheck.

6. Release it into theaters and watch MTV kids flock.

BEST SERVED WITH: A vomit bag, and a face-palming pad.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DISASTER INDEED 2 OUT OF 10, April 21, 2009

By	ACEMAN1 "HERE TO PISS YOU OFF" (Ripon, California) - See all my reviews

Welcome to the downfall of Hollywood, folks. Where uncreative, untalented, and uncaring writers, directors, producers, etc. are allowed to continue pumping out crap while talented filmmakers are banished from Hollywood because their films don't make much money. Shame, shame. Now we're left drowning in a wasteland of terrible films. This isn't the worst film I have ever seen, but it certainly is one of the ten worst films I've ever seen.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The film is basically a horrendous parody of Cloverfield with many other crappy parodies thrown into it. Three nobodies are tasked with saving the world and rescuing a girlfriend, and to save the world the Crystal Skull must be returned to its altar. This film doesn't flow cohesively, it's hardly funny (if you're lucky you get a few cheap chuckles), and it's downright painful. You know you're in trouble when your DVD player is making strange noises as if it doesn't like the film and if you vomit slightly in your mouth. That's how bad this film is. Not to mention within the first few minutes of watching it I was left saying; "I hate myself, I really do." Here's a list of the films this one parodies:
1. Cloverfield.
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
3. Juno
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks.
5. No Country For Old Men.
6. Iron Man.
7. The Incredible Hulk.
8. The Dark Knight.
9. Beowulf.
10. Hannah Montana.
11. Hancock.
12. Kung Fu Panda.
13. Wanted.
14. Hellboy.
15. Enchanted.
16. The Love Guru.
17. Speed Racer.
18. High School Musical
AND MORE... UGH.
MUSIC: The musical score is rather terrible and rather annoying.
ACTING: I hated each and every one of these actors. I especially hated the actress who did a parody of Juno because she pissed me off so much. None of the actors were funny and I wished they would all die.
HUMOR: The only part of the film I found somewhat funny was the parody of those annoying Head On commercials, any other slight chuckles I had were killed off almost immediately afterwards. This film is nothing more than an incredibly crappy parody. You know, I'm surprised it's not like The Happening; except instead of wind making people kill themselves, it's this film every time someone watches it.
ACTION: This film has very badly scripted action parodies that continued to make the quality of this film shoot straight down. Every moment of the action scenes was awful and nothing worthy of talking about.
OVERALL: Unless you are contemplating suicide, run away from this wretched disaster flick.
THE GOOD: The Head On parody.
THE BAD: Everything else.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This movie was nominated for 13 Academy Awards! No joke!, February 25, 2009

By	Movie Freak "denno" (Germany) - See all my reviews

Nominated in the categories:

WORST Actor in a Leading Role
WORST Actor in a Supporting Role
WORST Actress in a Leading Role
WORST Actress in a Supporting Role
WORST Art Direction
WORST Cinematography
WORST Costume Design
WORST Directing
WORST Film Editing
WORST Makeup
WORST Music (Score)
WORST Music (Song)
WORST Picture
WORST Sound Editing
WORST Sound Mixing
WORST Visual Effects
WORST Writing (Original Screenplay)

This movie makes "Attack of the killer Tomatoes" look like an epic blockbuster!