If people want to say that nothing is CS is supposed to be taken seriously, none of their criticisms are supposed to be valid and the whole thing's a joke about being extremely nitpicky, fine (I disagree, but we'll go with it for now). I'll argue then that the joke is bad, that it's lazy, one note, poorly conceived, executed and edited, that there's some weirdly off putting sexist bullshit in there mixed in with tossed off, half thought through one liners that don't build to anything. I would furthermore compare it to something like MST3K which also does a "riff" on movies, but does so with well thought out, well written jokes that aren't simply "hey, there's a cliche!" but are actually creative in their own right.
However, that's not really what supporters of CS think. They'll say "don't take it seriously", but then they'll defend the criticisms of films CS makes. And then if you take issues with any of the criticisms, they'll say "no, they're just having fun."
Personally, I think CS is both bad criticism and bad comedy. It's neither funny nor insightful. I think it's trying to be humorous while also making valid critiques of movies, and I think it fails massively at both.
Having said that, my post was intended to say that even if I meet defenders halfway and just say "fine, it's just pure comedy, let's ignore the poor quality of the criticism," it still doesn't hold up.
