It shows no understanding of or insight into the genre it's attempting to parody, nor indeed of cinema in general.
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02/09/06
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 CriticScarily awful -- this spoof horror franchise needs a stake driven through its heart, and quick...
12/30/06
Top CriticThe 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
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
All in all, the movie was pretty funny and entertaining, but really stupid and vulgar.
06/13/01
Top CriticA lot funnier then the first.
06/13/01
Top CriticYes, it's pretty funny. No, it's not as funny as the first one.
07/05/01
Well-made and directed with finesse by old pro Keenen Ivory Wayans.
07/05/01
Top CriticIt's the wackiness of the whole thing that makes it work.
08/09/01
I laughed enough to qualify the film as a solid bargain matinee.
07/05/01
Basically 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
"worth a rental"
07/29/01
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing.
07/06/01
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
An almost constant laugh riot of extreme gross-out humor and surprisingly limber lampoonery.
07/03/01
Does a satisfying hatchet job on the spooky ... world of supernatural pictures.
07/05/01
Like its predecessor, it's as exuberant as it is puerile, oozing a cheeky energy that will make you forgive many things.
07/05/01
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