Quote: Abraham’s and the Zuckers’ early collaborations are characterized by the way they effortlessly crammed every scene with anarchic sight gags. Today, that style of frenzied genre spoof has been co-opted by the considerably less inspired film-making team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who are responsible for such soulless dreck as Not Another Teen Movie and Vampires Suck.
If you've turned on a television in the past ten years or been to a movie theater then you probably know what a parody film is. One where they usually take popular films, ones that most people recognize, and then warp the characters and plots into "somewhat" comical reenactments. If you're like me, then you're probably pretty glad these films seem to be what i like to call a "dying breed"... We don't seem to see many of these too often anymore.
Why's this? Some might say that it just been done to many times and we all know what happens when you repeat the same joke just one too many times; it's just no longer funny. The humor found in these films were very "immature" and repetitive. What they lacked in creative and witty writing they made up with humorous injuries.
How did these catch on? Like most jokes or funny movie sub-genre's, when something is new, it seems brilliant. These movies appealed to anybody up for a good laugh. If you were interested in something funny or if you loved scary movies or drama's and wanted to see them being made fun of, then these were directed towards you.
Like mentioned in the quote above, these movies were just overdone and uninspired. They no longer contained the creativity or wittiness that they once did and once that was gone, they began to seem over-done. They used the same soulless, thoughtless jokes and no longer appealed to anyone as there production quality exponentially decreased very quickly.
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