Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and Now… Spanish Movie?!

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Just when you thought the legacy of the Scary Movie spoof series couldn’t possibly be applied to anymore genres, along comes the weirdest incarnation yet: Spanish Movie! That’s right, it’s a comedy that pokes fun at the best in Spanish-language cinema over the past few years including Pan’s Labyrinth, [REC], The Orphanage, The Others, and even Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver! The concept seems so ridiculously non-mainstream that you’d almost think this was a joke — until you realize that it’s actually produced by Fox’s Spanish studio arm.

Yep, this is a Spanish-language film that will be released in Spain this month, and really, why not? Why should North Americans be the only ones forced to suffer through such painful comedy? They actually have high hopes for the box office potential over there too. What I want to know is whether or not they plan to release it here eventually, because at that point it will become a foreign film spoofing foreign films that, for the most part, only discerning film geeks have seen. Will film snobs be forced to like it just because it’s in Spanish and skewers a wide array of critically acclaimed films, or will they hate it because it’s just another low brow spoof film starring Leslie Nielsen? Seems like quite the dilemma, if you ask me. Check out the trailer for Spanish Movie (en Espagnol, of course) after the jump and see what you think.



  • Brendan

    I thought you might be kidding when you said “just another low brow spoof film starring Leslie Nielsen” but, sure enough, there he is in the trailer!
    As to whether it’ll be released over here, but I assume it could be shown here, but only in predominately hispanic areas, undubbed. I can’t imagine a dubbed version making a wide release. Hollywood would be more likely to just remake it in English (Leslie Nielsen would probably still be in it, though).

  • I laughed at it only because it seems like a parody of parody movies.

    They even had No Country for Old Men on there…

  • Napalm

    Reed’s gonna love this!

  • asshole

    These ”Movie” films suck, but i think the hate for it is a bit overrated sometimes. I dont like them either, but they manage to give me 3-4 good laughs.
    The No Country for Old Men parody was great in this one.

  • Chris

    Besides Scary Movie, the only one that gotta few laughs out of me was Superhero Movie. Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, etc. were all terrible!!

  • BigMak

    The funniest one was Disaster Movie!!
    lol

  • who ever thinks these movies are terrible are fucking stupid punk ass bitches