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Disaster Movie

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Film
    Parody or Humor
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Director
    Friedberg, Jason
    Director
    Seltzer, Aaron
    Screenwriter
    Friedberg, Jason
    Screenwriter
    Seltzer, Aaron
    Actor
    Lanter, Matt
    Actor
    Minnillo, Vanessa
    Actor
    Johnson, Gary "G-Thang"
    Actor
    Parker, Nicole
    Actor
    Flanagan, Crista
    Actor
    Kardashian, Kim
    Actor
    Barinholtz, Ike
    Actor
    Electra, Carmen
  • Publisher
    Lionsgate Films
    Date
    2008
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Responds to -> Beowulf, Zemeckis, Robert (2007)
  • Identifying Numbers
    IMDb title identifier tt1213644
     
    Descriptive Notes

    Duration 1 hour, 27 minutes. A spoof of the disaster genre, putatively, but more an assemblage of vignettes spoofing celebrities, moments, characters, and scenarios from many different films of all genres, loosely organized around a disaster plot: earthquakes and meteors threaten global destruction if a crystal skull is not returned to its altar, located for some reason in a natural history museum.

    Late in the film, the character Beowulf, spoofing the Zemeckis film Beowulf (2007), briefly enters the action. Everything in the natural history museum has been brought to life by the disasters taking place outside, and the warrior Beowulf is, for reasons unexplained, in the museum where the altar that is the main characters' goal is also located. As Will and his girlfriend Amy try to deliver the crystal skull to its proper resting place, Beowulf appears and confronts them, naked and wanting to fight Will. His nudity for battle is the main gag of this sequence, and after he utters the line "I am Beowulf!" several times, the dialogue between him and Will while they fight centers on Will's insistence that Beowulf is gay because he fights naked, and Beowulf's denial while saying things that are meant by the writers to imply his gayness. The scene, which lasts about two or three minutes, ends when Amy axes Beowulf in the back, and is consistent with the mode and level of sophistication of the film throughout. Beowulf makes one further appearance of a few seconds, singing a line of a song that passes from character to character following the conclusion of the film's action.

     
    Authentication

    BAM (from DVD).

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    09/26/2024