When parodies of movies are done there is usually enough laughs to tie the story together so that the audience feels like their enjoying themselves. With this lampoon of big budget films and their larger than life situations, what we're left with are jokes fall flat and some that take to much brain power to figure out. You'd think that with the success of films like Scary Movie, Date Movie and a number of others that just to numerous to mention, that by now these writers and producers would know what to do to make the audience laugh.
While four orphans are trapped in a chocolate factory they discover an charmed wardrobe that whisks them to the land of Gnarnia where they must battle the White Bitch with the help of a peculiar pirate and some student wizards. One of the biggest problems that this film has is that the movies that they start to lampoon they story moves away from it before a good joke could be established. The jokes that are in the film are about 90% telegraphed so when the punch line finally does come it's a let down and you really don't care. There are some jokes that have really good set ups but then don't follow through and unfortunately it happens to often to not be a factor in the film failure.
I was hoping for so much more from this film, yes some of the jokes left me laughing but there were to many running jokes that weren't funny to begin with and then some of the gags fell so far from the mark that your left wondering what happened. I do understand that spoofing movies is a difficult thing, and to do it successfully is even tougher, but when you try to hard to pull it all together maybe its time to sit back and wait a while. So if you want to see good spoofing of movies don't watch this mess, you'll feel better about yourself for it.
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