Compared to this appalling spoof, Twilight is a work of genius, writes Peter Bradshaw
The last time I heard a film audience in such a state of silence was during Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light. Jason Friedman and Aaron Seltzer have specialised in genre spoofs such as Date Movie, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, and now they're back with a desperately, almost fanatically unfunny version of the Twilight franchise. It's the kind of satire that could be renamed "parasitire": a movie that tries to siphon off some of the box-office cash with what is effectively a humourless knock off, a line-by-line, moment-by-moment, mickey-take without jokes – or at least very few. Matt Lanter plays Edward Sullen, the pale teen-vampire hottie, and Jenn Proske does what I admit is a nifty impression of Kristen Stewart, playing Becca, the glum girl who falls in love with him but can't have sex...
The last time I heard a film audience in such a state of silence was during Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light. Jason Friedman and Aaron Seltzer have specialised in genre spoofs such as Date Movie, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, and now they're back with a desperately, almost fanatically unfunny version of the Twilight franchise. It's the kind of satire that could be renamed "parasitire": a movie that tries to siphon off some of the box-office cash with what is effectively a humourless knock off, a line-by-line, moment-by-moment, mickey-take without jokes – or at least very few. Matt Lanter plays Edward Sullen, the pale teen-vampire hottie, and Jenn Proske does what I admit is a nifty impression of Kristen Stewart, playing Becca, the glum girl who falls in love with him but can't have sex...
- 10/14/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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