According to a definition I found online, the "law of averages" is a colloquial term which relates to the idea that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term, that one will neither win nor lose all of the time. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have now made five movies together -- Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, and their latest Vampires Suck. The law of averages says that over the course of five movies, at least one of them would be good. Well, congratulations Friedberg and Seltzer, you've broken a law of science. I hope that you're happy.

Vampires Suck is a spoof of the Twilight movies and plays off of ideas from both Twilight and New Moon. Becca Crane (Jenn Proske) has just moved to the small town of Sporks to live with her father, Frank (Diedrich Bader). Becca is a brooding teenaged girl who doesn't hesitate to share her pain with others. She runs into Jacob White (Chris Riggi), a Native American boy whom she knew years ago. At school, Becca sees Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter), a pale boy who comes from a strange family. Becca and Edward are immediately attracted to one another, and even when Becca learns that Edward is a vampire, she doesn't want to be away from him. When a group of evil vampires come to the area, Edward decides that he must protect Becca.

In their other movies, Friedberg and Seltzer used a specific movie as a framing device for the movie, but would then fill the rest of the "story" with scenes making fun of other films. (The closest that they came to spoofing an entire movie was Meet the Spartans, which was a take-off on 300.) For Vampires Suck, the duo have decided to actually spoof a whole movie, or rather two whole movies. In the way that Scary Movie basically played as an insane version of Scream, where entire scenes were played for laughs, Vampires Suck flies through Twilight and New Moon, replacing action and angst with attempts at humor. This more cohesive and direct approach works in Friedberg and Seltzer's favor, as unlike their other movies, there are actually a couple of laughs here. There are a few visual gags that actually work and while this doesn't look like a $100 million movie, the production designers have done a good job of making it look like Twilight.

Despite some improvements over their previous films and a nice look, Vampires Suck still feels like an amateurish production. Friedberg and Seltzer have yet to master what a joke truly is or how to write consistent ones. While the movie benefits from spoofing Twilight, there are still scenes which include random cultural references, such as Dear John or The Jersey Shore, for no reason whatsoever. And then we have the Alice in Wonderlandreference, which may be the most random and pointless joke ever. It's as if the duo say to one another, "Hey, we really don't have a joke to put here, so let's say the name of another movie that our target audience has most likely seen." That's not a joke, that's just naming another movie. And, as one would expect, the movie often aims far too low, assuming that only 12 year old boys will be watching it. The really sad thing is that the Twilight movies are perfect targets for spoofing and it wouldn't take much work to make fun of them. The fact that Friedberg and Seltzer can't pull this off proves that they shouldn't be allowed behind the camera again.