Of all the different films that have resulted from Hollywood
today at its most adaptation-happy, one of the rarest seen nowadays is the
spoof. There are probably two fairly big reasons for that: The proclivity of
YouTube parodies have pretty much made the notion of paying to watch a spoof
movie on the big screen unnecessary, and the simple fact that none of the
filmmakers that could actually pull off doing spoof movies are around anymore.
When the only champions for spoof films are the sanity-stripping duo of
Friedberg and Seltzer, the guys behind Date Movie, Disaster Movie and Meet The
Spartans, it’s enough to make anyone swear off snarking on films ever again.
But, then again, maybe these parodies aren’t as dead as we think; they can also
sneak up on people if you’re not careful. For example, we have today’s film:
This is American Ultra… and points already for the most awesomely ludicrous
name for a film this year.
