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Worse than movies by the Date Movie team

posted 15 years ago by saneman1
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Before this movie, I thought the worst parodies were by those two idiots who split from the Scary Movie team and started to make their own ,movies such as the wretched Date MOvie, Epic Movie, Disaster MOvie , etc.

Well, I didn't even hate SOul Plane which was written by the same imbecile mainly because the cast of that movie elevated some of the lame jokes into watchable late night fun.

But this movie... Wow it's something else. Stan Helsing may be one of the worst movies I hav ever seen.

Is Leslie Nielsen that desperate for money that he took a small terrible role in this terrible movie?

[–] ChiStyleSports 15 years ago

It's a spoof movie. I'm sure they were not expecting great results. Scary Movie is the only one that was somewhat successful.

There's always some stupid *beep* reason to kill your girlfriend.

[–] amsyco13 15 years ago

Being a spoof movies does not mean the makers can get away with putting pure crap on the screen.

There have been many hilarious and successful spoof movies.

Airplane and Spinal Tap are always mentioned as two of the best comedies ever made.
And the recent movie Black Dynamite is, in my humble opinion, the funniest movie ever made.

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[–] Tim_Thomason 14 years ago

I agree with you on the horrendous-ness of this film. There's more of a plot in this film than in the "... Movie" franchise (discounting the Scary Movies, which are mostly alright). *But* the plot kind of makes the film worse, IMO. It would've been better if it was more of a loosely connected series of horror film parodies. But instead it's just a bad story with cheap knockoffs (super cheap, they couldn't have "realistically" puppetteered the Chucky rip-off?).

The presence of good comedic actors Leslie Nielsen, Kenan Thompson (kinda) and Steve Howey (always good for a nice laugh on Reba) doesn't do the film any favors. It just makes one sadder at the lost potential. Maybe Howey isn't the best for a lead role, but Nielsen is known to knock a supporting comedic role out of the park. The fact that the plot is so bogged down to make this impossible just makes the film worse than if they had three unknowns fill that role.

I don't think Nielsen is desperate for money. Seeing some of his late '90s offerings, I think he just likes hanging out at movie studios and accepting whatever silly role comes his way. The "in" thing now is to cast him in these parody films. Scary Movie 3 wasn't bad, and a good show of him as a supporting comedic character, but he hasn't done anything stellar since the Airplane and Naked Gun films. Stan Helsing is a new low. I now appreciate his work in Spy Hard thanks to this film. What I would *really* love to see, is another dramatic film role from Mr. Nielsen. Sadly, I don't think I ever will.