Discovery Channel opened its annual Shark Week on 4 Aug 2013 with Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, a mockumentary about the survival of the megalodon. It’s a real shame that the Lonely Island’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping bombed at the box office, because it was one of the funniest comedies of the 2010s. Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events, or as cinéma vérité pieces following people as they go through various events. RELATED: 10 Quotes From This Is Spinal Tap That Go Up To Eleven. [8][9] Woody Allen's 1983 film Zelig stars Allen as a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he is near, and Allen is edited into historical archive footage. The film centers on kooky contestants of a cooking competition all vying for the $1 million prize money, which sounds promising.
The 1980 South African film The Gods Must be Crazy (along with its 1989 sequel) is presented in the manner of a nature documentary, with documentary narrator Paddy O'Byrne describing the events of the film in the manner of a biologist or anthropologist presenting scientific knowledge to viewers. Juhasz, Alexandra/Lerner, Jesse (eds.) The Dark Knight: 5 Characters With The Most (& 5 With Very Little) Screen Time, can stand among the funniest movies ever made, The Funniest Movie From Each Year In The 2010s, Ranked, Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his role as Kazakh news reporter Borat Sagdiyev, The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Movies Based On TV Shows, some viewers didn’t realize it was supposed to be a comedy, 10 Quotes From This Is Spinal Tap That Go Up To Eleven, Harry Potter: 5 Things That Changed After The First Movie (& 5 That Stayed The Same), Star Trek: Next Generation Movies — The 10 Best Fight Scenes, Ranked, Harry Potter & Game Of Thrones: 5 Couples That Could Work (& 5 That Would Be A Disaster), Harry Potter: 5 Things The Films Got Right About Hermione (& 5 They Got Wrong), 10 Westerns To Watch If You Love Red Dead Redemption, May The Schwartz Be With You! British comedy duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French often presented short mockumentaries as extended sketches in their TV show French & Saunders. All the found-footage & mockumentary style horror movies that I've seen + those that I plan to see as well as some upcoming releases & also the ones that I've decided not to watch for now - they're marked as "Gonna skip this one".
In addition to writing for Screen Rant and Comic Book Resources, covering everything from Scorsese to Spider-Man, Ben directs independent films and does standup comedy. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Early use of the mockumentary format in television comedy may be seen in several sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974), such as "Hell's Grannies", "Piranha Brothers", and "The Funniest Joke in the World". However, pseudo-documentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events.
[11], Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a controversial yet successful film from 2006 which uses this style, as does Brüno, a similar film from 2009.
The Beatles own 1964 feature film debut, A Hard Day's Night, was itself filmed in mockumentary style: it ostensibly documents a few typical (and highly fictionalized) days in the life of the band as they travel from Liverpool to London for a television appearance. Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his role as Kazakh news reporter Borat Sagdiyev from Da Ali G Show for a movie in which he’s sent to America to learn how to improve life in Kazakhstan from its democratic society. In 1994 Viper and his crew ... See full summary » Director: Chris Woods | Stars: Amanda Beck, Dave Alspach, Liana Morrison, Phillip Barry Powell. RELATED: The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Movies Based On TV Shows. The film's titular director wants to have his name removed from his latest terrible movie.
Film genre in which fictional events are presented in documentary style to create a parody.
[7], Tim Robbins' 1992 film Bob Roberts was a mockumentary centered around the senatorial campaign of a right-wing stock trader and folksinger, and the unsavory connections and dirty tricks used to defeat a long-term liberal incumbent played by Gore Vidal. In television, the most notable mockumentaries in the 2000s have been ABC Australia's The Games (1998–2000), the Canadian series Trailer Park Boys (2001–present), the British shows Marion and Geoff (2000), Twenty Twelve (2011–2012) (which follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics), and W1A, which follows the main characters of Twenty Twelve as they start work at the BBC, as well as The Office (2001) and its many international offshoots, and Come Fly with Me (2010), which follows the activity at a fictional airport and its variety of staff and passengers. "Mockumentary." Melissa McCarthy played one of the lead roles long before she was a famous movie star, but Cook Off! After Twilight all but killed the vampire movie genre, What We Do in the Shadows managed to defy the odds and make the pale bloodsuckers feel fresh again. Apparently, he originally wanted to just re-dub the original movie, but the producers wouldn’t let him. Unsurprisingly, this particular style of filmmaking can be done horribly in the hands of unskilled directors. Ironically, the movie turned out so horribly that its own director, Arthur Hiller, decided to have his name removed from it, so it is actually credited to “Alan Smithee.”, NEXT: The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Spoof Movies. The story of how An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn got made is more interesting than the movie itself. Arguably his funniest work is Best in Show, which tackles the hilarious world of dog shows. [6], Early work, including Luis Buñuel's 1933 Land Without Bread, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, various April Fools' Day news reports, and vérité-style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre.
Popular examples in the US include sitcoms Trailer Park Boys and its films (1998–present), Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), The Office (2005-2013), Arrested Development (2003–2019), and Modern Family (2009–2020); the American improv comedy Reno 911! (2003–2009); the comedy series The Muppets (2015); Derek (2012–2014); People Just Do Nothing (2011–2018) and the Australian Chris Lilley shows Angry Boys, Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, Jonah from Tonga and Lunatics. reached theaters after her career took off.
The mockumentary is a curious subgenre of comedy movies. Samuel L. Jackson replaced the original’s Morgan Freeman as the narrator, which provided a couple of laughs, but the premise is stretched really thin in a feature-length movie. God only knows what possessed Bob Saget to write and direct Farce of the Penguins, a spoof of the Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins.