The Soup recently did a mock trailer for a film called REFERENCE MOVIE. I don't think we are that far off.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=27291795

That was really awful. Just a series of flat and empty references to scenes from Spider-Man. People should realize that a few friends, a six pack or two, and a copy of Spider-Man on the tube will easily generate jokes better than these.

Too bad Leslie Nielsen won't pull a Christopher Lee move and distance himself from this whole subgenre.

I want to write something called SPOOF MOVIE where we follow a group of hapless boiler room writers trying to create one of these lame gag movies. Hilarity ensues when the audience gets to see how clueless these guys really are.

"You mean they made movies before 1980?"

"Explore and heighten? What does that mean?"

Look on the bright side... at least we have the comfort of knowing that they won't give classic movies or foreign films a run. Too outside the target demographic.

Although I might be tempted to endure another one if they had the cojones to call one Art Film Movie.

I can't believe this movie is actually recycling the old "you're kneeling on my crotch/standing on my foot" gag that was moldy (but still funny) when GET SMART used to do it.

Wasn't there one a few years back that spoofed art house pics, especially Merchant-Ivory-style films? I never saw it, but I saw a box for something along those lines at Blockbuster.

Stiff Upper Lips?

A failed attempt:

The Remains of The Piano?

Mike: Indeed, "Stiff Upper Lips" is most probably the one I saw on the store shelf.

Victoria Wood did a funny Jane Austen spoof in her WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS Christmas special. It had a great cast: Alan Rickman, Hugh Laurie, Richard E. Grant, Lindsay Duncan, Imelda Staunton. I think. I can't lay my hands on my DVD at the moment, but those actors are on the disc somewhere. Rickman was definitely in it, in a British army uniform looking very Col. Brandon-like. For some reason I can't remember who played the female lead.

Either they're showing their age by including a breakdance set-piece... or that I'm showing my age for missing the whole breakdance revival.

Other than that, it just looks sad, cheap and pathetic.

But then, the schmucks are cashing a better paycheck than I'm pulling, so what the hey.