
Disaster Movie (l-r) Nicole Parker, Matt Lanter, Garry ''G-Thang'' Johnson, and Crista Flanagan
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Release Date: Aug 29, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian
C+
Title aside, Disaster Movie may be the first Airplane!-style parody that has no overriding concept beyond...skewering a bunch of recent hit films. It should have been called I Love the First Half of 2008. Since many of the targets (Cloverfield, Hancock, Kung Fu Panda) already have a cheeky self-consciousness, the comedy rarely seems more than a hasty patchwork of cheap-shot allusions. But a few arrows hit their marks. The movie is merciless sending up Juno's self-satisfied hipster gobbledygook, and it's quite funny to see Hannah Montana still promoting her tie-in products as she lies crushed and dying under a meteor. C+
Posted Aug 29, 2008
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