Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are an American film director and screenwriter team. They were two of the writers of one of the three drafts combined to make the original Scary Movie and have on their own written and directed films such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie, all of which have been widely panned by critics.
Friedberg and Seltzer's movies consistently turn in a reliable box office performance, but their...
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are an American film director and screenwriter team. They were two of the writers of one of the three drafts combined to make the original Scary Movie and have on their own written and directed films such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie, all of which have been widely panned by critics.
Friedberg and Seltzer's movies consistently turn in a reliable box office performance, but their critical reception has been consistently negative. Disaster Movie is currently ranked #24 on the IMDb's Bottom 100 list of worst movies, and Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans were rated the two worst films of 2008 by The Times newspaper.
Critic Josh Levin of Slate said of their work:
"Friedberg and Seltzer do not practice the same craft as P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Michael Bay, Kevin Costner, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, the Wayans Brothers, Uwe Boll, any dad who takes shaky home movies on a camping trip, or a bear who turns on a...
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