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Video of the Day: 'Step Up 2 the Streets' Marketing Parody
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Note: The above video contains mild profanity. You've been warned.
So you know how after a film comes out, they'll throw together one of those commercials featuring moviegoers outside the theater, telling everyone how much they loved the film? They don't do it as much anymore, but it's always fun to watch some random fat dude with a sign proclaiming his love for the latest Hollywood release. Anyway, some very funny folks got together and recorded a parody of one of these commercials for the new film Step Up 2 the Streets. Ya know, that movie with all the kids dancing in the streets? In its first week, Step Up 2 pulled in roughly $28 million, which means them kids out there definitely step up to the box office when one of these urban dance flicks arrives. The video, which you can watch above (via Funny or Die), comes with the description: "The Step Up franchise is like You Got Served for white people!"
Personally, I thought it was hilarious. Just try not to take offense -- it's all in good humor. Step Up 2 the Streets is currently playing in your local theater.
[Thanks ivamarie for the tip]
New On DVD - Date Movie, Freedomland, Winter Passing
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• Date Movie - Nowhere in the formula "Comedy = Tragedy + Time" does "Cruelty" figure in, something that this caca-palooza -- "from 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie" -- sets out to correct from the very first scene. When they introduce us to morbidly obese Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan), it is with ridicule as they paint her as a hideous beast that makes men vomit and turn gay. Of course, when we remember that 2 of the 6 writers of Scary Movie were Wayans Brothers, whose stock in trade is that kind of cruelty, it makes sense (even if these are another two writers.)
A parody of romantic comedies like Bridget Jones's Diary, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Hitch, this lame spoof goes for the easy laugh almost every time, beating to death with a golf club every gag with the subtlety of, well ... someone who beats someone else to death with a golf club. The "13" in the movie's "PG-13" rating would seem to be either a limit for either I.Q. or emotional age, as the movie's show pieces are either juvenile blue bits or have something to do with either poop, pee, puke or pus (the dreaded "4 P's"). Putting gifted comic actors like Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge in this stinky mess makes them both stinky by association, though as time goes by, the whole lot of them will only be guilty of contributing to a vast background of white noise that we will have learned to filter out when we grow up. Presently #64 on the IMDB's Bottom 100 of all time.
Review: Scary Movie 4 -- Rob's Take
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A good parody is hard to spin beyond the here and now. Take "Weird Al" Yankovic, for example. The pop-music jokester has put out 11 regular albums since 1983, when the accordian-playing nice guy's spoof of The Knack's "My Sharona" (titled "My Bologna" and recorded in the men's room of his college radio station) started his career as a musician, comedic icon and food fetishist when it blew up on The Dr. Demento Show. However, every hilarious and unforgettable cut like "Eat It", "Like A Surgeon" and "Smells Like Nirvana" that hit was matched by fade-away tracks like the New Kids jape "The White Stuff" (an ode to Oreos), the Rocky III goof "Theme From Rocky XIII (The Rye Or The Kaiser)" or the misjudgment "Taco Grande" (a riff on Latin rough-boy Gerardo's only hit, "Rico Suave"). The secret to a successful parody is complex, involving a careful balance of picking a song that is big enough, worthy of a good-natured dressing down and most important, funny. The same is true with movies, and the latest in the popular Scary Movie series is a great example of what can go right and wrong with such an attempt.
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