More Things I Wish I’d Written
Via Trainwreck Media’s attempted hagiography of David Zucker’s for his careersuicide bomb “An American Carol” a snippet of a review of this turkey by Jeffrey Wells on his blog, Hollywood Elsewhere:
The laugh quotient is right up there with The Love Guru and confirms that David Zucker was always the Fredo of the ZAZ comedy mafia.
Sez John Cole: “Only in Greater Wingnuttia could making a really, really shitty movie be portrayed as an act of heroism.” Not bad, either.
Really Stupid Things I’m Glad I didn’t Write: From Trainwreck Media’s John Nolte post on the putative scourging of David Zucker:
“Ironically, Zucker could have made a fifth Scary Movie installment without anyone raising a single question about his sanity, character, career choices, or ‘funny bone.’”
The truly ironic thing is that Scary Movie 4 raised plenty of questions about Zucker’s character, career choices, and “funny bone”:
Isn’t it amazing to see just how low some people will stoop if you pay them just enough money?
This is no big revelation to those of us who tune into Jerry Springer on a regular basis. If you don’t, you may be surprised to spot Bill Pullman, Dr. Phil and Shaquille O’Neal among the many formerly respectable celebrities making like orangutans in service of the almighty paycheck.
The occasion is “Scary Movie 4,” the latest in the low-flying movie parody franchise spawned by the Wayans brothers, who wisely bailed out after the second sequel.
Or:
The even numbers don’t favor the “Scary Movie” franchise. Inspiration ran dry for the Wayans Brothers in No. 2; now successors David Zucker & Co suffer gag fatigue following up their moderately improving efforts on the third installment. “Scary Movie 4″ finds horror parody overshadowed by ho-hum groin blows, C-list celebrity cameos, slapstick child abuse, soon-to-be-forgotten hip-hop personalities, plus scatalogical and gay jokes; real laughs are few.
But among the other benefits of Wingnutism is the ability to blame a flailing (or completely failed) movie career on libruls.
