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Not the world's smartest movie, Epic Movie is to Citizen Kane, as InTouch Magazine is to The New York Times. It's basically garbage, and yet these movies make millions of dollars. Let's talk about why.

Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie were fresh and original on top of making people laugh, but as the creators got more and more greedy, film after film was produced to create this egregious collection of cheapness. Kind of the same class as the National Lampoon movies, these popcorn flicks have no surprises. People know what they're getting themselves into, and sometimes people may just be in the mood for this type of movie. So they watch these, regardless of whether or not it's any good. Eventually, the filmmakers will make another one, and another, and another; but soon the audience for these movies will diminish. We'll just be over it.

With Epic Movie, I think they've reached their saturation point. They'll probably make a couple more of these movies, just to be sure. Maybe they can squeeze another $10 bucks from the average moviegoer's pocket for a piece of regurgitated nonsense. It's the same kind of humor over and over and over and over again. "Dude, we should make it like, Willy Wonka's child winners be the kids from Narnia, and then throw in MTV Crib, Nacho Libre, Da Vinci Code, and whatever other movie references in to create a like totally more awesomeness!"

I do give it some kudos for the creativity of intertwining so many movies into one film, as random as those intertwines may be. However, while movies like this maybe funny for a little while, these references won't stand the test of time. They'll soon be forgotten, and hopefully this movie along with it.