Movie Review: Vampires Suck (2010)

Alright, so after a brief absence from Media World, I return to review a movie that I just saw for the first time last night: Vampires Suck. Vampires Suck is a 2010 comedy/spoof film that parodies the Twilight series (mainly). I say mainly because I looked up this movie on Wikipedia to see what the critical response was and I saw a whole list of other movies that this one spoofs off of. Now I'll get to my analysis. This movie is pretty much universely panned. I'll you why: this movie doesn't really have any funny scenes. There is one scene where Bella (Becca's) dad is trying to beat up that guy in the wheelchair. Who is supposed to be Jacob's dad. That scene was midly amusing, but other than that, the movie tells jokes likes its a kids movie. My real problem with this movie is that this movie starts a joke and has no follow through. It's like the directors did this movie and didn't actually put any real jokes, they showed a preview of a possible joke. It's almost like when your watching a trailer and they show you the setup to the gag, and then they leave the other part to your imagination. That doesn't work for me. A joke has a setup and a punch line, that's just basic social etiquitte. Plus, any joke or spoof that does almost kind of follow through, doesn't make you laugh. It's like when someone tells you a really unfunny joke, you pretend to laugh so they won't feel hurt, but the joke is really just not all that funny. That's the deal with this movie. The acting in this movie is the other problem. Some people may say that the lack of good acting in this movie is a result of the poor jokes and script. I think the acting may just be inexperience. These actors aren't all that well known. So, when they present their style, it's foreign to us because we aren't familiar with them. Anyway, to wrap it up, Vampires Suck presents only one or two slight sniggers and spoofs the Twilight series in a way that just makes the real films feel strange. One star.