Do We Really Need This Movie?

Short answer: NO!

So what movie am I talking about? Not Another Not Another Movie starring Chevy Chase & Burt Reynolds. Sounds innocent enough until you read the description of the movie. The description has recipe for disaster written all over it.

1st the plot summary of the movie that writer-director David Murphy put up on IMDb: In this non- stop hilarious ride we follow a struggling Movie Studio that is willing to do anything to make a buck even if it means ruining its reputation, and running the Movie Industry into the ground. This film has everything that an audience wants from a LAUGH OUT LOUD COMEDY by taking a no-holds barred attack on the Spoof Genre from Blockbuster Action movies to Dramas and Documentaries to Popular Television shows.

OK, I know that when promoting YOUR movie there is a tendancy towards hyperbole. But this news article confirms my suspicions:

Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen and "Stuttering" John Melendez are spoofing the nonstop flood of spoof films in the upcoming indie comedy "Not Another Not Another Movie."

Chase plays a studio head who quits his floundering company, leaving his ex-con sibling (Madsen) in charge. Soon their equally inept gangster friend (Jones) takes over and assigns a production assistant (David Leo Schultz) to direct a spoof of spoof movies. Reynolds plays an actor playing the director of the chaotic film within the film.

Writer-director David Murphy's "Movie" features cameos from actors playing themselves spoofing their memorable roles, including Richard Tyson (the villian in "Kindergarten Cop") and Wolfgang Bodison (the young African-American Marine on trial in "A Few Good Men"). Ellie Gerber, Tim Piper, Jennifer Sciole and James Duval also star.

The True Fiction Filmz feature is produced by Ron Loudoun, Murphy, Nick Cole, Schultz, Piper and Electra Avalan. Darren VanCleave, Ronald Derrickson, Zach Cole and Sciole are exec producing.Production is nearing completion on the film. True Fiction and Daval Releasing are repping AFM presales. (Meta movie: 'Not Another' spoofs the genre)

It may turn out to not be as bad as expected, it may actually turn out to be a decent send up of how low Hollywood has sunk into the slimepit.

But when you reach the point where the most original Hollywood can get is to start spoofing spoofs then it is time to quit & let someone else take over who can put out something decent.

I recently came across this in a newsbrief in Dubuque365.