Quartile rating: 4/10 · 1 rating
When the Pevensie siblings each follow their own path, they find themselves at Willy's Chocolate Factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover the world of Gnarnia, ruled by the White Bitch. Meeting up with characters such as Harry Potter and Captain Jack Swallows, the newly reunited family must team up with Aslo, a wise-but-horny lion to stop the White Bitch's army.
Epic Movie is widely regarded as one of the worst films of its era. The plot is a threadbare string of disconnected pop-culture references masquerading as parody, with no coherent narrative arc. Acting is uniformly poor, with performers delivering lines with little comic timing or conviction. Cinematography is functional at best — competently shot but entirely unremarkable. Novelty scores marginally above the floor because the specific mashup of early-2000s blockbusters (Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pirates of the Caribbean) gives it a faint time-capsule identity, though the spoof format itself is thoroughly derivative of Scary Movie and its ilk. The ending is as limp and incoherent as the rest of the film, resolving nothing satisfying. Overall one of the clearest examples of cynical, assembly-line comedy filmmaking.