Vampires Suck

Vampires Suck is another one of those parody movies that takes shots at anything and everything they can. Vampires Suck is done by the same guys that have done all the movies with "Movie" in the title. While there are those who the that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are two of the worst film makers for all these movies, but a completely stupid movie like the parody movies they make, will make you laugh when you are in the right mood. Vapires Suck though is a lot different then the "Movie" movies of the past. In this go around the focus is on simply the first two movies in the Twilight Series.

Jenn Proske in the role of Becca Crane does a great parody job of Kristen Stewart's, Bella Swan. She has all the quirks and mannerisms of Stewart down perfectly. Honestly, I think you could slide Proske into the role of Bella and the audience would truly not tell the difference. Matt Lanter in the role of Edward Sullen like Pronske hits the parody of Cullen perfectly as well. He plays the booding, shimmery vampire great. The ability they both have to parody characters so spot on and while it can both be a great talent as well, it is something that could peg them into smaller movie type roles, it will be intersting to see what they both can do with their future careers. The supporting cast all do admirable jobs and you get exactly what one would expect in one of these parody movies. Chris Riggi in his parody role for Taylor Lautner, while not really playing the role with the mannerisms as much as he is making fun of Taylor Lautner as being simple tennage girl eye candy. The best way they do thisis with him actually taking off his shirt and misting himself with a water bottle while stating that it is in his contract to have his shirt off every few minutes. I think one of the stronger casting aspects of this film was the simple fact that they did not cast Carmen Electra like they have in just about every other parody movie.

The story for Vampires Suck was pretty simple vecause they basically took the first two Twilight movies and condensed the stories into one script that took the outlandish aspects of the Twilight series and just took them even farther. I do not know if it is that Seltzer and Friedberg are learning that they do not have to parody an entire genre while also throwing in a pop culture reference every fifteen seconds or if my expectations have just been supremely lowered, but I felt in this go around they managed to keep most of the jokes focused on the Twilight series and kept the pop culture references to a minimum. An aspect that definitely works in the favor of a parody movie is that of the special effects. Since most of these movies do not have the budges for over the top seamless special effects, they use this to their advantage by making the effects super cheesy and even corny that it ends up making the movie funnier.

Vampires Suck is nothing special of a movie. Even though it had its moments that made me laugh throughout they ended up being few and far between. While the parody was much more focused then past parody movies, they had some great source material in the Twilight series that I think they ended up falling short of the potential this movie could have had. I am giving Vampires Suck two and a half buckets of popcorn out of five. I would recommend Vampires Suck on a night when you are in the mood for a senseless, stupid parody movie that will make you laugh from time to time.

-The Movie Man