The very essence of bad

To say Epic Movie is a bad film barely begins to explain the degree to which it is dreadful.

A glued-together hodgepodge of inept skits based on recent blockbusters (Da Vinci Code, Narnia, X-Men etc), its morass of crude, misogynist and not-the-least-bit-funny gags is degrading.

It's as if the film-makers, not satisfied with scalping the audience of their cash by franchising their Scary Movie and Date Movie get-rich-easy scheme, need to remind us what suckers we are.

'Here's the frontal lobotomy you paid for - now act grateful...' Of course, it made its money back on its opening weekend in the US.

A cynical exercise in barrel-scraping banality that embodies the very essence of 'bad'.

Epic Movie
Cert: 12A