Scarily awful -- this spoof horror franchise needs a stake driven through its heart, and quick...
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12/30/06
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:15
Rotten:91
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Instead of being funny, this gross-out sequel plays like a sloppy, rushed-out product.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, David Cross
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Reviews for Scary Movie 2
Top CriticIt shows no understanding of or insight into the genre it's attempting to parody, nor indeed of cinema in general.
02/09/06
Top CriticIt's just terrible, with long stretches in which the sea of writers don't even try to insert any humour, followed by an attempted joke that doesn't work on any level.
01/27/02
The film had eleven writers. I don't see why it needed any. It's unstructured, plotless, and even the truly funny moments are merely juvenile stabs in the dark.
10/28/01
If you haven't seen the target film, not only is it not funny, it becomes totally pointless.
09/10/01
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04/29/09
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
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08/07/08
Perhaps if you send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope they'll tell us why this was thought to be funny.
04/14/06
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12/06/05
Top CriticWe can only hope this excrement masquerading as humor will bury the gross-out genre once and for all.
06/23/04
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01/16/04
Top CriticBasically just a bunch of silly spoof scenes cobbled together around a thin premise, it allows the Wayans brothers to have fun in the way a group of kids might have fun with a video camcorder, except with a multi-million-dollar budget.
02/08/03
If you didn't like the first one, stay away, but if you got a few good chuckles out of it, you'll get more of the same with the sequel. I guess it's a matter of personal (bad) taste.
09/10/02
In a classic 'too many cooks' scenario, Scary Movie 2 never manages to put even the semblance of a plot together.
08/17/02
the opening 15 minutes was absolutely gut-wretchingly hysterical. I laughed more at this second film than I did at the first one...
06/22/02
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03/24/02
Top CriticThe creators of Scary Movie 2 have forgotten one crucial fact about the horror genre--for every Scream 2 there are twenty Blair Witch 2s.
02/26/02
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