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Hot on the heels of Scream 4 , The Weinstein Company may be looking to reboot their Scary Movie parody franchise.

We mean, Of-fens-ive. With strong republican views, comes Big Fat Important Movie from Anchor Bay, storming your limey sensibilities on DVD and Blu-Ray from October 5, 2009.

Canadian and American filmmakers have lashed back Friday at what they described as an "outrageous" boycott of the Toronto International Film Festival by some filmmakers and writers in protest of the event's spotlight on filmmakers from Tel Aviv.

These days, if a movie is a hit, there will be a spoof right along behind it. It's the genre that won't go away The spoof movie is the cinematic runt of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa's face.

These days, if a movie is a hit, there will be a spoof right along behind it. It's the genre that won't go away The spoof movie is the cinematic runt of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa's face.

These days, if a movie is a hit, there will be a spoof right along behind it. It's the genre that won't go away The spoof movie is the cinematic runt of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa's face.

These days, if a movie is a hit, there will be a spoof right along behind it. It's the genre that won't go away The spoof movie is the cinematic runt of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa's face.

Is there any filmmaker alive, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, capable of producing a truly incisive, intelligent satire about our politically polarized times? Not Ben Stein, who checked his dry wit at the door when he made the anti-Darwinist, pro-creationist diatribe "Expelled." Not Bill Maher, whose " Religulous" revealed ...

Screenwriters Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, and David Zucker devised what felt like a new generation of zany spoofs with their 1980 hit film Airplane !, shamelessly elevating corny humor to new heights.

What I'm about to write isn't a recommendation of the new parody film "Dance Flick," but more of a gentle warning that what the Wayans Brothers are serving up here isn't nearly as wrist-slittingly disgraceful as expected.