One Vote for the Libertarian Parody

"...The Libertarian Party is extreme to the point of parody. It's what everyone wants but no one dares. The..."

June 14, 2004 Postmarks

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Texas Travesty

Sept. 26, 2003 Best of Austin Feature

The Comebacks

A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.

"...that, for one brief scene, managed to be a parody of a parody. Now, the fact that The Comebacks..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Blake Behind Bars

To write a parody of prison movies, Naughty Austin's Blake Yelavich sentenced himself to 27 films in the big house

"...So what do you do when you've put a parody of prison movies on your schedule, and you're appalled..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

This French box-office sensation is a send-up of Sixties spy films.

"...of Not Another Teen Movie, et al. Truly great parody relies in equal measure on both finely calibrated nuance..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scary Movie 3

Third outing is 90% chaff, 10% wit, and pure Children of the Corny.

"...to be fervently hoped, last in the less-than-venerable horror-movie parody series fires the gags in such a bewildering fusillade..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undercover Brother

"...Richards, Chris Kattan and Eddie Griffin. How do you parody a genre that as often as not is so..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wrongfully Accused

"...worse things than Mr. Magoo. With any luck, this parody of The Fugitive and other on-the-lam thrillers will sound..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mafia!

"...out as part of the holy trinity of cinematic parody -- (David) Zucker, Abrahams, and (Jerry) Zucker -- with..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...to crush everything in its path with this femme-centric parody of James Bond and Mission: Impossible-like hijinks. McCarthy gets..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...entirely in bathroom humor, low-grade sadism, puerile sexuality, tin-eared parody, and insignificant pop-culture references with a shelf life of..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon One

"...overambitious attempt at cashing in on the highly lucrative parody genre. Taking aim at overwrought buddy-cop movies like the..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hot Shots!

"...her sizzling encounter with Sheen, we're treated to a parody of 9 1/2 Weeks that really cleans out the..."

Aug. 2, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Bookshop

British period literary drama is pretty weak tea

"...occasionally tips the entire endeavor past whimsy and into self-parody...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ghost Team

A group of losers stumble onto paranormal activity

"...Team is, on the one hand, an increasingly stale parody of the paranormal television subgenre of reality shows, and..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Warcraft

No fun storming the castle in this lousy adaptation of the hit video game

"...too seriously is, by film’s end, an inadvertently hilarious parody of the very fantastical tropes that made the online..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fifty Shades of Black

Marlon Wayons takes on another spoof

"...the zeitgeist to come up with this racially tinged parody of Fifty Shades of Grey. The film is also..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Más Negro que la Noche

This remake of a Mexican horror classic is remarkably routine.

"...dangerously close to succeeding as an astutely crafted genre parody, yet Bedwell instead settles for fashioning a horror show..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.

"...The Exorcist are some of the eye-rolling springboards for parody, while Wayans and co-writer Rick Alvarez flog gross stereotypes..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Watch

This comedy is awfully lightweight although Richard Ayoade lends some spark to the goofy quartet.

"...Vaughn's Bob is a parody of suburban masculinity taken to the extreme; Hill's wannabe..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Man on a Ledge

This semi-functional thriller tingles but never terrifies.

"...while Harris mugs and rhapsodizes like some freaky, methed-out parody of Donald Trump (which, I guess, he is). Jamie..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hobo With a Shotgun

Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.

"...Hobo never seems to settle on whether it's a parody, satire, knowing wink, or clever riposte to the low-budget,..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Your Highness

This vulgar medieval travesty is awfully good fun when it works.

"...of unperturbed misanthropy serve him well in this risqué parody of the questing-knights genre. The film is equal parts..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Name Is Bruce

Cult star Bruce Campbell directs and stars here as himself, but the actor is mistaken for his popular character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and is forced to fight a real monster.

"...for Old Spice cologne), and thus this severely over-the-top self-parody comes off as pretty much pointless. Campbell casts himself..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hell Ride

This grindhousey biker film, executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, is a convoluted, overly snazzy-looking tale of bad blood between even worse people.

"...Carradine and Leonor Varela. The line between homage and parody is blurry enough at the best of times in..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steep

The glories of extreme skiing are proclaimed from international mountaintops.

"...workout in the past decade-plus that it's become a parody of itself, to the extent that even The Simpsons..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rambo

In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.

"...to it, but its follow-ups are this side of parody. Having artistically exhausted this franchise long ago and ended..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Meet the Spartans

The working title says it all: Not Another Scary Epic Teen Date Movie.

"...Epic Movie, Date Movie, et al. – mean to parody last year's hugely successful swords-and-sandals actioner 300; what they..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Sheep

It's smart; it's silly; it's shear terror, as the ruminants develop a taste for human flesh.

"...borderline surreal vibe that never quite slouches into outright self-parody. It's smart; it's silly; it's – kill me now..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kickin' It Old Skool

Jamie Kennedy wakes up after a breakdancing injury put him in a coma 20 years ago. That's when this film's real trauma begins.

"...through a series of predictable gags and low-rent cultural parody. The continued existence of Jamie Kennedy as a factor..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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