I think people need dumb movies like this. With all the stuff going on in the world we need movies like this where we can just sit and let the brain cells die, besides we have been doomed for a long time now.

will watch

If Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet (1956) .... Commander Adams) can't be in a sci-fi movie, then who can? However I'll wait until it comes on Pay Per View.

I don't know, the Cerebro-beer-hat is pretty ace. :-)

I like underwear jokes.

You had me at Tracy Morgan as Professor X. Yo I love cerebro so much I'm gonna take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.

Wow, it's like Mystery Men without the talent or humor.

wow...thats the worst poster i've ever seen. its like someone who took a photoshop tutorial had a half hour to throw something together.

quick question: what the heck is "meet the spartans???" is that real? i've never heard of it

btw: these movies will keep coming out as long as they make money. and according to idiocracy, this will probably make money.

Do not want!

@EDread83: True, but there are far better examples of movies that are shut-your-brain-off fun while still managing to be in any way good. Mystery Men comes to mind. They even managed to have a major character entirely revolve around fart jokes and still make it funny.

@Gopherit: um... did you see a different "mystery men" than me?

@EDread83: Looks like a two dollar movie, although they have just raised their price to $2.50, so this one is getting a little dicey.

@inakizombie: "I am the sh-pleen. Pull my finger."

@the earl of weaver:

No, just some of us love it. There's dozens of us dozens!

I had no idea this was being released by the Weinstein Company. I thought they only did Merchant Ivory flicks?

@Seth L: Exactly. I pity those who can't ttell the difference between MM and this schlock.

@Garrison Dean: X just wants to hold a mirror up to society and then win world record for biggest mirror!

How can you argue with any Professor that believes the moon doesn't exist, that vampires are the world's greatest golfers but their curse is that they'll never get to prove it, and that there are 31 letters in the white alphabet.

@92BuickLeSabre: Answer... you can't.

My problem with these films is that they don't even TRY to be funny. They just think throwin' in some random cultural references and presenting the characters in a situation they don't belong in equals teh funny.
Well, it doesn't.
And they don't care.
Because the maroons who will be watching this in-between text messages don't care either.

NOOO!!! THERE IS NO JUSTICE!!!

Make fun of the movie all you want, but do not trash Leslie Nielson. He was in Naked Gun.

Yes, this WILL be terrible, and I regret its existence, but just look at Tracy's face!! How can you not want to see that??

Tracy Morgan is comedy gold.

@Plague: yeah that is what family guy does

@inakizombie: Mystery Men was a fine movie for comic fans but we are not exactly the group they are targeting with this film. This film is for the people who have little to no knowledge of the comic realm. I mean you can tell us about a guy with a funny haircut that has claws and a metal skeleton and we are like "Hell yeah thats awesome" but joe shmo is like "WTF?!?!" This movie is for them. I am not saying comic fans wont like it, some will, but the movie is really more for the average person.

oh... and I am a ticking time bomb of fury.

Critical analysis of comedy films are doomed to fail. If it makes you laugh, who cares? What makes a 10 year old girl laugh is different from what makes a 20 year old guy, and that is still different from a 60 year old woman.

We all agree this movie will suck (or blow, depending on your preferences). So let's get on to something better.

What is YOUR Gawker superhero identity, and what are his/her special powers?

Yes, it's been pretty much pre-ordained that this movie will suck huge. We all know it. That being said, who doesn't want a t-shirt that says "With great power comes hot bitches"? I'd pay for that if I could get it in a Navy or Oxford gray.

Not enough rake thin women with huge boobs to make this movie a success for the fans, I don't think. Need more than one! ;)

(I kid, it'll probably be a cult favorite in about 5 years.)

According to imdb, Brent Spiner and Keith David are in this movie.

game set and match.

MR. BODY MASSAGE MACHINE....GO!

All these movies (Scarey Move, Teen Movie, Date Movie, etc...) are all good for a few laughs but are never "good". My problem with these movies is, that after 2, 3 years, they will no longer hold up because they are packed with pop culture references that will not be relevant in a few years. That's why Airplane! is so awesome, it's comedy that stands the test of time.

GO!

I think this movie and it's ilk are good because they prepare us for our inevitable collapse into being a 3rd World Consumer Dystopia like "Idiocracy" (but with higher infant mortality) which is still preferrable to the "Children of Men" future we could have been spiralling towards.

@Plague: That's also why Dane Cook and Family Guy exist.

My dad loves superheroes and stupid movies so he's really excited for this...

Sigh...

This is what happens with old age.

@Garrison Dean:
"Wolverine's Bar Mitzvah
Sharpy, pointy
Boys becoming X-Men,
X-Men becoming wolves."

DOTS
EVERYWHERE

this is why America will soon cease to be a superpower, because her shores are filled with degenerates and idiots.

OMG, who is playing fake Storm?

I don't mind the occasional dumb movie like this. I think they're a little too frequent and low-quality these days, but I suppose that'll happen from time to time. This one doesn't look too awful, though. Relatively speaking.

However, yes, the poster is atrocious.

@tazo: its the same actress that was in all scary movie movies

Sadly, it will make a fortune. And yes, we are doomed.

Fleeing to Mars, brb.

This look like it might make Mystery Men seem like an actually funny movie.... and that is oh so hard since MM is swathed in the fetid stench of Stiller Failure...

Craig Mazin is behind this trash... he also happens to be involved in part of a trifecta that's wholly/partially responsible for the following gems (the other two being Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, who are much MUCH more responsible for this shit):

Scary Movie 1
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Date Movie
Meet the Spartans
Epic Movie
Spy Hard

Someone needs to keep these idiots from ever getting near a film set again.

@iJake: Petition Time?

@Ghede: and?

Damn it. We need parodies of Airplane standards, not this crap. And meet he spartans, if there isn't a single caketown joke in there...

@Ghede: "Make fun of the movie all you want, but do not trash Leslie Nielson. He was in Naked Gun."

He was also in "2001: A Space Travesty" and "RePossessed". He gets no free passes anymore.

@iJake: Exactly. Bring back the old National Lampoon parodies, or the Mel Brooks parodies (like Men in tights)

All I know is that I want that 'hot bitches' shirt

Mel Brooks where are you when we need you?

DEATH TO THE FRANCHISE!!!!!!!!!
anyone agree?

I've feared for the fate of our species far before this movie.... hell I would say we've been doomed for at least a decade.

My suggestion just roll with it. There really isn't anything the few of us can really do to change it now.

Not another film with Leslie Nielsen in it he has too be about 90.

Bad? How could it possibly be bad with Drake Bell in the leading role?!