The filmmaking team behind the hits "Scary Movie," "Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of all time -- the disaster film.
Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
2 Sep 2008
rotten:
Disaster Movie, the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops.
– Nathan Lee,
New York Times,
2 Sep 2008
rotten:
Rushed into production with no better drape for its threadbare gags than Cloverfield, this carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores.
– Jim Ridley,
Village Voice,
2 Sep 2008
rotten:
The result is a series of extraneous, deplorably unfunny scenes and sketches stitched together in completely haphazard fashion.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
5 Sep 2008
rotten:
Disaster Movie is the latest and most slap-dash of the movie parodies to atrophy out of the Scary Movie franchise.