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Avg. Critic Score: 15 out of 100 Overwhelming dislike Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    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. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    The product's not 100% giggle-free: Several songs have amusing lyrics, especially parodies of "Juno" and "High School Musical." Read full review

  • 20
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Real disaster movies have more laughs than this spoof. Read full review

  • 20
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead? Read full review

  • 20
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Seldom has a pic been more appropriately titled than Disaster Movie, yet another frantically unfunny free-form farce. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Nathan Lee

    Does little more than congratulate its audience on recognizing the source of its riffs. "High School Musical" -- ha ha ha! Read full review

  • 16
    The Onion A.V. Club |

    It's too easy to say Disaster Movie deserves its title, but why put more effort into trashing it than the filmmakers did into writing it? Read full review

  • 12
    Boston Globe |

    The filmmakers are idiots. Read full review

  • 0
    L.A. Weekly |

    This carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores. Read full review

  • 0
    Austin Chronicle |

    There's no nice way to say this, so I'll just say it: Writer/directors Friedberg and Seltzer are a scourge. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Crude, dumb spoof isn't worth your time or money.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this crude parody is from the same directing team responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans. Like all of those movies, this one features a seemingly endless list of celebrity impersonations and reenactments of scenes from other popular films. Expect strong language ("s--t," "a--hole," etc.) and comedic violence. There are a couple of scenes of women in bikinis or lingerie, a shot of Beowulf's naked behind, and tons of sex-based jokes and references. As for commercialism, the entire film could be regarded as an ad for all of the movies and celebrities it references.
  • Families can talk about whether this film is really a parody of disaster movies. What characteristics of that genre is it making fun of? What other things does the movie mock? Why do you think the filmmakers included so many pop-culture references? Are the celebrity impersonators and sight-gags from other movies funny? Do you think anyone will find any of it funny decades from now, when half of the references will have been forgotten? Does any of it go too far? Are there better examples of spoofs?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: There really isn't a message except that perhaps the directors don't understand the meaning of parody. Women are portrayed as damsels in distress; there's a scene filled with gay jokes/stereotypes. A random little person pops up as a sexual joke.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Gun play and comedic violence (like fake-looking body parts landing everywhere), Dr. Phil and others being shot, a delusional woman eating glass, a woman being crushed to death, and other disaster-movie stereotypes.
  • sex false4 Sex: Many references to heterosexual and homosexual acts; a couple of female characters are shown wearing lingerie; Beowulf's naked rear is visible; Flavor Flav and a little person are in bed with a woman; the princess, who has a pimp, says she'll "do anything" if the price is right.
  • language false3 Language: The usual suspects: "s--t," "d--k," "bitch," "ass," "a--hole," "p---y."
  • consumerism false4 Consumerism: Starting with the framing device cribbed from Cloverfield, the entire movie is strung together by overt references to popular films, musicians, and TV shows, including Juno, No Country for Old Men, Wanted, Enchanted, Kung Fu Panda, Hancock, Jumper, Night at the Museum, High School Musical, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Get Smart, Indiana Jones, Hellboy II, Amy Winehouse, Flavor Flav, Dr. Phil, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers, and many, many more. Actual products include Mac, Pinkberry, Calvin Klein, Ambien, Facebook, MTV, Head On, and others.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults drink at a party, where teens try to steal booze; references to various drugs.
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