Post by StevePulaski on Aug 17, 2010 21:37:52 GMT -5
Rating: ★★
Low Budget Pictures has made a spoof of the popular teenage vampire love series Twilight, and it took this movie to find my true opinion on parody films. It takes one to know one. If you make a parody of a popular series, you're just as guilty because you can't think of a better idea then to spoof something more popular than anything you could make. I'm not attacking LBP here, in fact, I found this to be an average, sometimes funny take on the overall basis on the Twilight series. What LBP did here was a decent parody film, but it doesn't surpass the classic 90s parody films of Scary Movie 2.
Taintlight spoofs the first movie in The Twilight saga and basically pokes fun at everything referring to the vampire team as "Fagpires". Mostly homosexual, toilet, and sex jokes hit the field here, some funny, some not, leaving me at an overall mix of the jokes. Most don't do justice, but about one third make the cut as "passable" in my book. Jokes like the Bella character never smiling and her being a miserable teenager were the funniest, but somehow LBP thought that jokes about intercourse and other sex acts would be funnier.
Stella (parody of Bella from the series) moves into a new town and like in the original film, she's completely miserable and shy of the world. She moves back in with her sex crazed father who cant help but try to make a move on his own daughter. She meets an old friend and come the first day of High School she learns about a pale jock by the name of Edgar Mullen (parody of Edward Cullen of the series). She basically falls in love with Edgar and while trying to form a relationship, she becomes romantically involved always being around him and having being thrown into situations like fighting "Michael Jackson were-wolfs".
Even at a very mere and barely passable time length of sixty minutes, the movie feels as if it was extended twenty minutes just to be called a movie. Bebe's Kids was around the same length as this and was far more enjoyable because of the ambition. Even though they are trying to be like the characters from the movie their just not good actors all around. It would be better as just a used parody in Scream 4 or Scary Movie 5 rather than have it's own movie and having the bare minimum requirements of a "real movie."
The real problem here is Taintlight doesn't try to be mature and make a clever parody from Twilight as much as it tries to make a silly and senseless parody. When parody films come out they used to try and accomplish something - an efficient mockery of a well respected, or highly overrated series. Taintlight gains nothing but the award of immaturity with things like "Vampires" being called "Fagpires" and so on. I mean, what are we in grade school again?
I dont hate The Twilight Saga, but I find the tragedy about the series of films is usually when things like this come out. Movies that are way better than this get little to no money or get cheated out of their money by people seeing a movie in the saga. When New Moon came out, a decent, not direct, parody film of vampires (which is better than this by a bit) called Transylmania came out and hardly got seen at all because this took in all the fans. It was definitely better than New Moon, but far less recognized.
When Eclipse came out, it took away a lot from a phenomenal movie, Toy Story 3. Its no one's fault, but TS3 was definitely the one to see over Eclipse without a doubt.
I will continue to watch more of LBP's films in the future like Filthy McNasty, I Spit Chew on Your Grave, and maybe others. Though as for this, it's just a floundering parody film that lacks true comedic wit and humor. My index as reviews (mostly in "The Avoid Files") of Busted, Stan Helsing, and The 41 Year Old Virgin.... Taintlight maybe hilarious to strong haters of the series, but too a regular consumer looking for laughs, not many are delivered.
Starring: Meredith Host. Distributed by: Low Budget Pictures.
Low Budget Pictures has made a spoof of the popular teenage vampire love series Twilight, and it took this movie to find my true opinion on parody films. It takes one to know one. If you make a parody of a popular series, you're just as guilty because you can't think of a better idea then to spoof something more popular than anything you could make. I'm not attacking LBP here, in fact, I found this to be an average, sometimes funny take on the overall basis on the Twilight series. What LBP did here was a decent parody film, but it doesn't surpass the classic 90s parody films of Scary Movie 2.
Taintlight spoofs the first movie in The Twilight saga and basically pokes fun at everything referring to the vampire team as "Fagpires". Mostly homosexual, toilet, and sex jokes hit the field here, some funny, some not, leaving me at an overall mix of the jokes. Most don't do justice, but about one third make the cut as "passable" in my book. Jokes like the Bella character never smiling and her being a miserable teenager were the funniest, but somehow LBP thought that jokes about intercourse and other sex acts would be funnier.
Stella (parody of Bella from the series) moves into a new town and like in the original film, she's completely miserable and shy of the world. She moves back in with her sex crazed father who cant help but try to make a move on his own daughter. She meets an old friend and come the first day of High School she learns about a pale jock by the name of Edgar Mullen (parody of Edward Cullen of the series). She basically falls in love with Edgar and while trying to form a relationship, she becomes romantically involved always being around him and having being thrown into situations like fighting "Michael Jackson were-wolfs".
Even at a very mere and barely passable time length of sixty minutes, the movie feels as if it was extended twenty minutes just to be called a movie. Bebe's Kids was around the same length as this and was far more enjoyable because of the ambition. Even though they are trying to be like the characters from the movie their just not good actors all around. It would be better as just a used parody in Scream 4 or Scary Movie 5 rather than have it's own movie and having the bare minimum requirements of a "real movie."
The real problem here is Taintlight doesn't try to be mature and make a clever parody from Twilight as much as it tries to make a silly and senseless parody. When parody films come out they used to try and accomplish something - an efficient mockery of a well respected, or highly overrated series. Taintlight gains nothing but the award of immaturity with things like "Vampires" being called "Fagpires" and so on. I mean, what are we in grade school again?
I dont hate The Twilight Saga, but I find the tragedy about the series of films is usually when things like this come out. Movies that are way better than this get little to no money or get cheated out of their money by people seeing a movie in the saga. When New Moon came out, a decent, not direct, parody film of vampires (which is better than this by a bit) called Transylmania came out and hardly got seen at all because this took in all the fans. It was definitely better than New Moon, but far less recognized.
When Eclipse came out, it took away a lot from a phenomenal movie, Toy Story 3. Its no one's fault, but TS3 was definitely the one to see over Eclipse without a doubt.
I will continue to watch more of LBP's films in the future like Filthy McNasty, I Spit Chew on Your Grave, and maybe others. Though as for this, it's just a floundering parody film that lacks true comedic wit and humor. My index as reviews (mostly in "The Avoid Files") of Busted, Stan Helsing, and The 41 Year Old Virgin.... Taintlight maybe hilarious to strong haters of the series, but too a regular consumer looking for laughs, not many are delivered.
Starring: Meredith Host. Distributed by: Low Budget Pictures.