This film is built on a gimmick - the notion that the characters are making a terrible film and we, the audience, get to see the ensuing train wreck.
However, the film itself becomes a train wreck, using tired jokes and uninspired writing. Every scene feels forced and there's no character to root for. The "bad guys" look like people who just grabbed some Halloween garb off the clearance rack and the "good guys" are supposed to be your goofy Scooby Doo mystery team types, but that cliché only works if the film were set in an era before people reviewed every location on the internet and before you could vet any person with the touch of a button.
The worst part is, there's this smugness to all the writing that just makes it seem in every line of dialogue like the writer thought he was being the most clever guy who ever walked the planet. Hopefully he learned from this experience that a "so bad that it's good" film is usually fun because its creators worked extremely hard at something that INADVERTENTLY turned out extremely bad. They didn't make it bad ON PURPOSE.
However, this film was made badly on purpose to try to cash in on that type. All the "so bad they're good" movies were never planned that way, and this film is no exception. It's just bad.
However, the film itself becomes a train wreck, using tired jokes and uninspired writing. Every scene feels forced and there's no character to root for. The "bad guys" look like people who just grabbed some Halloween garb off the clearance rack and the "good guys" are supposed to be your goofy Scooby Doo mystery team types, but that cliché only works if the film were set in an era before people reviewed every location on the internet and before you could vet any person with the touch of a button.
The worst part is, there's this smugness to all the writing that just makes it seem in every line of dialogue like the writer thought he was being the most clever guy who ever walked the planet. Hopefully he learned from this experience that a "so bad that it's good" film is usually fun because its creators worked extremely hard at something that INADVERTENTLY turned out extremely bad. They didn't make it bad ON PURPOSE.
However, this film was made badly on purpose to try to cash in on that type. All the "so bad they're good" movies were never planned that way, and this film is no exception. It's just bad.