We get the news of another Wayans’ spoof movie from the Webmaster of delight at FILMJUNK:
Supermovie is, as you can probably guess, going to poke fun at the multitude of comic book movies that have been hitting theatres over the past few years. The thing is, they’re a little late to the party on this one, as there are already a number of superhero parodies in the works (including one by Scary Movie 4 helmer David Zucker). Not much is known about the project at the moment other than the fact that Shawn, Marlon and Keenen Ivory Wayans will produce (I’m assuming Keenen will direct as well).
I have a strong dislike for 98% of all spoof movies. The Wayans’ brothers are involved in way too many. They did one of the best spoof movies ever with I’m Gonna Get You Sucka and everything since has been far less hilarious.
Spoof movies are easy to pump out and get a good return most of the time, but the clip at which they are coming out leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I know these types of films are popular with younger movie goers and I guess they deserve to have them. These type of films are more interesting when they mock a genre rather than simply reenacting scenes from a handful of movies in a genre that were released recently.
The super hero genre will have enough to make fun of and there are certainly enough films to draw from now; I am simply not able to get excited about this type of film and find the formulaic approach to be dreadfully boring. The only parody film I want to see is I’m Goona Get You Sucka 2 – that would be the exception to the rule.
