It's weird, or all the entertaining and delightful screenwriter bloggers, the only ones who are good at what they do are Jane Espenson and John August.

At least all the ones I know of.

I don't know. I can never get enough "old lady in the wood chipper" gags.

Why do they keep making these type of films? Seriously, how big is the audience that they can justify making them over and over again.

Oy.

Watching other people being hurt makes me laugh. Probably not a good sign.

Dammit. As awful as that looks I did laugh a couple of times. At least it looks coherent and they don't blatently throw in pop culture references like that Meet The Spartans noise.

i think the more poiniant question is how does leslie nielson keep getting work given that he's never actually been funny.

I have to hope that it is PG friendly. My boys love Drake Bell.

Awful.
But, did I hear a Wilhelm Scream in the first 10 seconds of that?

@Metropolis: Ask yourself who the audience to "ghost whisperer," anything on MTV or VH1, reality television in general, and fox news is, and you will have your answer.

@tetracycloide: Awe come on. Naked Gun?! "Heroin Frank!" "That's a pretty tall order there Nordbert, you might have to give me some time."

Why does every single one of these lame spoof movies need to include break dancing sequence? Since when is break dancing funny?

this hurts my brain.

Count me in for the 'laughed despite knowing its going to be awful' crowd. The 'stop the bus' gag and the 'old lady in the woodchipper' gag, dammit, in a trailer, that's funny!

Love that the most expensive effects in the trailer are the title cards. If that's the theatrical trailer, they spent as much on the transition out of the Dimension Films logo as they spent on music clearance (and that breakdancing joke really needed "Rockit" or "Funkytown", not that needle-drop knockoff.)

In Arizona, Leslie Nielsen does commercials for a local credit union. Believe me, this is a step up.

@Punty: The break dancing was lame, but I laughed at the cat. =X

OK. I laughed a couple of times. But Drake Bell's career is over.

Were Leslie Neilsen and David Zucker ever funny?
-Kle.

@Klebert: Ever heard of Airplane!?

@Klebert: NcSchu's already mentioned Airplane (aka Flying High) and Flying High 2 was pretty funny.

Kentucky Fried Movie and BasKetball are also classics, although Neilsen doesn't have a major role in those two...

This looks surprisingly not-awful. I'll give it a chance, if only because I hope that Hollywood hasn't completely killed this genre to death.

I laughed too, but then again I'm stupid tired and I probably would have chuckled at an America's Funniest Home Video joke from Bob Saget. This looks awful. I saw Scary Movie 1 and 2, and it just got more dumber and I even feel more stupider for done havin' watched that thur trailers. Look at meh, I can't even type grammatical-like no mo'

@Punty: Since that Voltron break dancing skit on Robot Chicken.

It's really a shame, cause Mazin seems to know a lot about film and loves the right types of films. He just doesn't make them.

Action Phoo proves that wedgies actually are the new superpower
and it rocks

too bad this movie didn't know that when they did all this bollocks

@DCI Gene Hunt: I like movies that let me turn my brain off, and make fun of themselves as they make fun of others. When a movie tries to be serious, and is so dull of plot holes and mistakes that detract from the enjoyment, they're un-enjoyable. I admit to laughing at the scary movies after the wayans left, and watching them every time they were on TV. Also add Date Movie in.

@FunkyJ: I got the Kentucky Fried Movie on DVD, and watched it w/ my ex and her dorm mates, and they barely laughed once. I was laughing though.