re: Funniest Movie Ever

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Maybe you're not familiar with the concept of a parody or the Scary Movie series in general but they're pretty much meant to rip off every movie in existence. I can assure you the similarities were on purpose.

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I'm very familiar with the concept of a parody, and Scary Movie doesn't qualify. It's simply a rip off and just blindly steals shite from it's source material. A parody points out how ridiculous the premises to your favorite movies are, but this doesn't do any of that.

Any idiot could write a _____ Movie. It's just as simple as them watching fricking movie trailers, stealing the direct scene from the movie, and someone gets kicked in the nuts instead. That's not a parody. Parodies are movies like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Quest for the Holy Grail, Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz. Watch those if you want to know what a parody should look like.

The only movie I think that qualifies as a legitimate parody that these guys have done is "Not Another Teen Movie". That one was a bit more clever and it didn't just blindly rip everything off (although it did it's fair share of that too). It paid homage and legitimately showed you how ridiculous the high school movie genre was. Granted, I still don't think it's all that great, but hey at least every fricking scene wasn't "directly rip off this scene but he gets kicked in the nuts instead".