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Scary Movie (2000)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:56
Rotten:52
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Critics say Scary Movie overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from... In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. In a small town, a copycat is reenacting the SCREAM murders, and local reporter Gail Hailstorm will do just about anything to get the story. The six high school students who ran over a man on a sharp curve the year before think the killer is out for revenge, but sweet and innocent Cindy Campbell believes that the madman might just lurk a lot closer to home. Cowritten by Shawn and Marlon Wayans (and four others), the script leaves no cliché unturned; in addition to the horror parodies, the film also spoofs such teen sex comedies as AMERICAN PIE and such hit films as THE SIXTH SENSE, THE MATRIX, and FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. The film never lets up in its striking re-creations of classic scenes, and it never passes up the chance for a joke, no matter how crude. The young, attractive cast looks like it just jumped out of DAWSON'S CREEK, playing everything up to the hilt--and beyond. [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth
Starring: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth, Regina Hall, Jon Abrahams, Carmen Electra, Cheri Oteri, Lochlyn Munro, Kurt Fuller, Dave Sheridan
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Eric L. Gold, Lee R. Mayes
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: Dimension Films
Reviews for Scary Movie
The air of desperation is emphasised by the insistence on padding out horror-movie gags with crude Farrelly-style humour.
This is Dumb American Comedy at its best and well worth 90 minutes of your time.
The film just uses the scattershot approach to parody: Throw constant jokes at the screen and some of them will stick.
This is not a film for the faint-hearted, it is an exercise in ribald humour, both scripted and visual, which will keep you laughing from start to finish.
You should know not to see a comedy when its premise reveals that the filmmakers can't identify humour.
The appeal seems to lie less in laughter than in respect for the filmmakers' irreverence as viewers sit back and think, "I can't believe they showed that!"
If you're hoping to forget your troubles for 90 minutes, Scary Movie certainly does the job.
Does its spoofing with a blunt instrument instead of a scalpel, and it's engineered to appeal to the lowest instincts of its targeted adolescent audiences.
The humor in this movie is based on the concept that if enough jokes are fired off in a row, some of them will make you laugh. The concept works.
The kind of thing that leads to sleepless nights -- from severely bruised rib cages.
Scary Movie is a sporadically hilarious parody of teen horror movies that too frequently seems half-baked.
[The Wayans'] approach, incorporating the crude humor that has become so popular of late, generates an unfortunate digression from the point.
Utimately, there are some laughs, enough to justify a video rental at least.
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