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{{quote|''I’ve rarely seen a movie as hostile as this one, both to its audience and to its protagonists, and I don’t think I realized before just how mean-spirited comedy can get (and I was raised on [[the Three Stooges]]).''|Josh Rosenblatt, [https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2007-01-26/438452/ reviewing ''Epic Movie''], February 2, 2007}}
Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are a pair of writer/directors that collaborate with each other on all of their projects. They create comedic movies that parody and reference pop culture in the [[Airplane!|Zucker, Abrams and Zucker]] style of [[Rapid-Fire Comedy|rapid-fire gags]] [[Negative Continuity|without concern for the overarching plot or characterization]].
Their first official project was the 1996 film ''[[Spy Hard]]'' and they contributed one of the many scripts that was folded into the first ''[[Scary Movie]]'', but they did not gain notoriety until 2006 with ''[[Date Movie]]''. While panned by critics, the film made back triple its meager budget and secured them a contract to do a couple more films. While 2007's ''Epic Movie'', January 2008's ''[[Meet the Spartans]]'', and August 2008's ''[[Disaster Movie]]'' received worse critical reception and inspired a vocal [[Hatedom]], it wasn't until the last that the public rejected them (although it's unknown whether or not the film's failure was simply due to the different audience provided by its August release). In 2010, the duo released ''[[Vampires Suck]]'', a ''Twilight'' parody which was as poorly received as their previous works. This was followed by 2013's ''[[The Starving Games]]'' and ''[[Best Night Ever]]'', and 2015's ''[[Superfast!]]'', a parody of the ''[[Fast and Furious]]'' franchise. As of 2016, they are at work on a film tentatively entitled ''Who the F#@K Took My Daughter?''.
In 2010 they announced an ambitious parody of James Cameron's ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' called ''The Biggest Movie Of All Time 3D'', to be released in 2012. However at some point shortly afterwards the project was abandoned and all official trace of it was "erased" from the Net -- promotional videos were removed from YouTube and even the [[IMDb]] page for it was deleted.
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* [[Artifact Title]]: Some of the films have issues with the titles not really representing the content being parodied. As the making-of materials on ''Disaster Movie'' revealed, this is because the films change rather rapidly in production and the title is simply meant to cover what the filmmakers expect to be the most marketable element.
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Carmen Electra]] appears in ''all'' of these movies (and plays a major role in ''Meet The Spartans'') making her, for want of a better term, the series mascot.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]:
** Jokes about the most recent deaths of celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith in ''Meet The Spartans''.
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