Gone Direct-to-DVD: April 2009
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Friday, May 01, 2009
6. Extreme Movie
Who's in It? Michael Cera, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Frankie Muniz, Ryan Pinkston and Andy Milonakis
The Verdict: “We knew we had to take things beyond where they had been in the past,” Adam Jay Epstein reveals during the “making-of” of this sex-driven sketch comedy he directed with Andrew Jacobson. Good awareness on the directors’ part to realize that their target audience of high schoolers likely began experimenting sexually soon after hitting puberty. Too bad they barely push the boundaries established by Woody Allen’s 1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but were afraid to ask). So cue the tired, one-joke skits featuring porn stars, midgets, sex dolls, and animals. The Weird Science and hidden camera show parodies offer some laughs, but not enough to make Extreme Movie any extremer than an episode of Real Sex.
DVD Features: Commentary with co-directors Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson; The Making of Extreme Movie featurette.
Stars: 2 out of 5
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