David Zucker

Features

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

By Bill Gibron

What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. [10 September 2008]

Reviews

Naked Gun: I Love the 80’s Edition

By Evan Sawdey

Some 21 years down the line, The Naked Gun, surprisingly, is still pretty damn funny. [1 March 2009]

An American Carol

By David Hearne

This is what right-wingers accuse Hollywood liberals of making: a vanity project intended to please a small, select group. [15 January 2009]

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

By Ron Mashate

This isn't a movie so much as a series of set pieces with a theme of parody in mind, only to quickly devolve into toilet humor of the most literal kind and asinine, gross-out histrionics. [1 September 2006]

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

By Noah Davis

The problem is that none of this is surprising. We've seen these jokes on late night television, heard them on the radio or even thought of them ourselves. [21 April 2006]

Airplane!: The ‘Don’t Call Me Shirley!’ Edition (1980)

By Mike Ward

Airplane! basically gets by on one joke: sight gags based on tricks of perspective or on thwarting expectation. [11 January 2006]

Scary Movie 3 (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Just when you thought the Scary Movie franchise had run out of ideas, here it comes again -- looking like it's run out of ideas. [23 October 2003]

My Boss’s Daughter (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Bring on the vile humor and mindless embarrassment. [28 August 2003]