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7 | [[caption-width-right:203: [[IronicEcho This also includes the Seltzer and Friedberg saga.]]]] |
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9 | ->''"Some sagas just won't die."'' |
10 | -->-- '''{{Tagline}}''' |
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12 | A 2010 film by Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg, and the first one to concentrate on parodying a single franchise, rather than the usual system of parodying a single genre like ''Film/ScaryMovie'' or just parodying everything they could think of like ''Film/EpicMovie2007'' and ''Film/DisasterMovie2008''. As usual, the film is pretty trope-heavy, with most of them being {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. It stars Creator/MattLanter, Jenn Proske and Creator/KenJeong. |
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14 | The movie is a parody of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', and got quite a bit of success at the box office, perhaps indicating that if there's one thing the public loves to mock more than Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg, it's ''Twilight''. While most critics panned the film overall, many of them noted that Jenn Proske's [[DullSurprise dull-eyed]] Creator/KristenStewart impression almost saves it. In early 2011, the film also earned the distinct honor of competing with ''Twilight'' '''itself''' for ''four'' UsefulNotes/{{Golden Raspberry Award}}s, including Worst Picture. |
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16 | Not to be confused with the trope YourVampiresSuck. ''Definitely'' not to be confused with the ''other'' Vampire parody, ''Suck: Vampires Rock''. |
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19 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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21 | * AdvertisedExtra: Notice how "Music/LadyGaga" is on the cover of the movie itself (the page picture above). She (or rather an actress playing her) appears for a single throwaway joke ''that's actually in the trailer almost in its entirety''. |
22 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Becca can rip her biological father's moustache off. It comes off in one piece, leaving behind a moustache-shaped injury. |
23 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: PlayedForLaughs, with the vast majority of the jokes in the film not having any sort of logic behind the physics in the slapstick gags. |
24 | %%* BatterUp[=/=]OffWithHisHead: Edward, to [[strike: James]] Jack. |
25 | * BeardOfSorrow: Edward starts growing one after breaking up with Becca. |
26 | * BetterThanABareBulb: Pretty much every single trope to be played straight in the Twilight Saga is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in this. |
27 | * BlackComedy: Edward at one point is forced to juggle an apple, a bowling ball and a baby before he catches them in Becca's bag, with the baby landing in second place. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext, to be honest. |
28 | * BlatantLies: The trailers actually went so far as to ''make up acclaiming reviews'' by "reviewers" with {{punny name}}s such as "Oliver Klozeoff". |
29 | * BookEnds and/or {{Flashback}}: Like the ''Twilight'' films, the film starts with a scene from later on. Here, though, it's played for laughs. |
30 | -->'''Becca's narration''': Oh, wait, you've already seen this bit. |
31 | ** There's a hard zoom on Becca's mouth at the beginning and end. |
32 | * ButtMonkey: |
33 | ** Becca's father. [[EpicFail The guy in a wheelchair can kick his ass.]] |
34 | ** Becca herself. She gets violently picked on first day at school, gets bricks falling down on her when in her room and Jennifer throws a champange bottle in her face while screaming "bitch!" |
35 | * CampGay: All of the werewolves except Jacob. Being a Seltzer and Friedberg film, expect gay stereotypes to be in this film as well. |
36 | * CompressedAdaptation: The film covers both ''Twilight'' and ''New Moon'' in less than 80 minutes and mocks them relentlessly. |
37 | * {{Dominatrix}}: Becca dresses in this outfit at one point as a random gag some point in the film. |
38 | %%* EatingTheEyeCandy: Jacob's first ShirtlessScene. |
39 | * EmoTeen: Lampshaded constantly, as it mocks the fact that all the characters in the film are emos. |
40 | * FanDisservice |
41 | --> '''Edward''': The only thing that doesn't stop aging is your ass. [[{{Foreshadowing}} It gets pretty wrinkly down there...]] |
42 | * FanService: |
43 | ** Lampshaded by Jacob. |
44 | -->'''Becca''': Why'd you take your shirt off?\ |
45 | '''Jacob''': It's in my contract ''[[AsideGlance [gives camera unimpressed look]]]'' |
46 | ** Played straight with [[FemaleGaze Edward's exposing scene]]. |
47 | ** And [[MaleGaze Becca in the leather dominatrix outfit]]. |
48 | %%* GangstaStyle: "I'm a killer!" |
49 | * GrossUpCloseUp: |
50 | ** When Edward uses [[ParodyNames Derric]] as a HumanShield, there are some [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] close-ups of his injuries. |
51 | ** Edward's naked, 109-year-old butt. It takes up the entire frame. ''Twice''. |
52 | * HammerSpace: Becca's backpack |
53 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: The infamous sparkly vampires of ''Twilight'' are parodied by Edward having a [[RuleOfFunny disco ball]] covering his, [[StealthPun um...]] |
54 | * HowWeGotHere: The opening. |
55 | * KarmicDeath: At the end of the movie, a Jacob fangirl kills Edward, only to die by a vampirized-just-then Becca. |
56 | * KryptoniteProofSuit: The SPF 500 sunscreen, which all the vampires used to prevent them for dying in sunlight. |
57 | %%* NextSundayAD |
58 | %%* NoFourthWall: See FanService above. |
59 | * ParodyNames: As with Seltzer and Friedberg's other films, all the characters names were changed, with Edward and Jacob only having their last names changed. |
60 | * ProductPlacement: All over the place, though BlandNameProduct also comes up. |
61 | * ProtagonistCentredMorality: Edward's "keep Bella safe at all costs" attitude in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is parodied by giving him a tendency to actively put random people in harm's way every time Becca is threatened. ''[[InsaneTrollLogic Including Becca herself]]''. |
62 | * RedundantParody: The constant lampshade on Jacob's constant shirtlessness? The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies already did that, several times. |
63 | * RomanticVampireBoy: As with everything else parodied being PlayedForLaughs, as it is a parody of ''Twilight'' after all. |
64 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: They obey multiple vampire 'rules', but only the ones that can be played for laughs at the time. |
65 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Some of them are actually chihuahuas... |
66 | * RuleOfFunny: The only reason why ''anything'' happens in this movie, with so many of the non-sequiturs, slapstick, and pop-culture references being shoehorned in for the sake of a joke. |
67 | * ShoutOut: |
68 | ** In addition to the entire plot being based off of the first two parts of the ''Twilight Saga'', there are also references to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', ''Series/JerseyShore'', ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', ''Series/TrueBlood'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Music/LadyGaga, and Music/TheBlackEyedPeas. |
69 | ** The Team Edward vs. Team Jacob fight is a ShoutOut to ''Twilight'''s infamous FanDumb. |
70 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Team Jacob, bitch!" |
71 | * VisualPun: When the Chinese takeout guy is sacrificed so Edward can get Becca out of there. |
72 | --> '''Edward:''' "Hurry! They'll be hungry again in half an hour!" |
73 | * WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: Played for laughs, with a lot of the vampires all wanting to stereotypically suck on people's necks for their blood. |
74 | * YourVampiresSuck: This is literally stated in the film's title. Being a harsh parody of ''Twilight'', it's to be expected. |
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