Have you grown tired of the fervor over the Twilight films? Would love it if you never heard of Team Edward and Team Jacob ever again? Well, thanks to two filmmakers, a film aimed at you and me came out in theaters last year, the Twilight spoof Vampires Suck.
Like the Twilight series, you see a young woman (in this film, named Becca) moving to a gothic-looking town in the Pacific Northwest, meets two young guys, discovers one of them is a vampire and the other a werewolf (sorta), has to choose between them, and blah, blah, blah, blah...you know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, Vampires Suck is not only a spoof of Twilight, but also of vampire movies of recent and just about any and all movie and television program popular with teenage audiences. And while it's refreshing to see a film which mocks one of the more overrated films I have seen, it is unfortunate that Vampires Suck, for the most part, sucks.
Much like all of the recent spoof films to come out in the last decade or so, the comedy in Vampires Suck includes some truly hilarious gags and jokes, but it's far too littered with over the top gags so painful to watch, it's not funny. I mean, using a baby in a juggling scene? Who thought that was funny?
While this was a film not worth paying the $5 to see in theaters (and I'm glad I didn't see it in theaters last year), I'd prefer to see this one to any of the Twilight films any day of the week, and it is worth watching at least once; just get it on Netflix or wait for it to appear on cable. I give Vampires Suck two (of five) stars.
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