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Scary Movie 4 (2006)

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Reviews Counted:123

Fresh:46

Rotten:77

Average Rating:4.7/10

Consensus: Sure to inspire a few chuckles, but not enough to compensate for the recycled material from its predecessors.

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: No spoof is left unturned in director and parody-meister David Zucker's SCARY MOVIE 4, the latest installment in the popular horror-cum-humor series. Among several returnees from previous films,... No spoof is left unturned in director and parody-meister David Zucker's SCARY MOVIE 4, the latest installment in the popular horror-cum-humor series. Among several returnees from previous films, Anna Faris reprises her role as Cindy Campbell, the eternally unlucky and hilariously clumsy heroine. In a send-up of 2004's THE GRUDGE, Campbell is assigned as full-time nurse to a mysterious old lady in a house haunted by the ghost of a small boy. In a takeoff of 2005's WAR OF THE WORLDS, next door lives Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko), a divorced dock worker somewhat in charge of his two kids, who is called into action as Alien TriPods (remove the "Tr" for a hint at the inspiration for their invention) seek to destroy Earth. The two meet and quickly fall in love. Joined by Cindy's ever-present sidekick, the flirtatious Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), the protagonists must save the planet from aliens and solve the mystery of the ghostly boy. One of the stops along the way includes a sharp lampooning of THE VILLAGE, complete with appearances from SCARY MOVIE veterans Carmen Electra and Chris Elliot, and other cinematic spoofs, including BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, MILLION DOLLAR BABY, and SAW. The satirical wit extends beyond the movies, containing personal jabs both self-inflicted (Charlie Sheen, Shaquille O'Neal, and Dr. Phil) and not (Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, and George W. Bush). Ultimately, there is more than enough funniness to sate the SCARY MOVIE or slapstick comedy fan's appetite. [More]

Starring: Anna Faris, Chingy, André Benjamin, Carmen Electra

Starring: Anna Faris, Chingy, André Benjamin, Carmen Electra, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Garrett Masuda, Charlie Sheen, Debra Wilson, Beau Mirchoff, Conchita Campbell

Director: David Zucker

Director: David Zucker
Screenwriter: David Zucker, Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams
Composer: James Venable
Studio: Weinstein Company

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Watch (sober) at your peril.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
05/06/06
Anna Smith
Anna Smith
Time Out
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Scary Movie 4 is a fun time out at the pictures, but the genre has become so unnecessarily vicious over the last few years, and has lost its way so desperately, that you end up feeling rather guilty for laughing at it.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
05/06/06
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus

Worse than Scary Movies 1 through 3… And they were terrible.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/12/06
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
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The law of diminishing returns is in full effect here -- there are a couple of inspired gags but most fall embarrassingly flat.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
04/21/06
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Three's a trilogy, four's a bore.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/11/06
Paul Arendt
Paul Arendt
BBC
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By keeping the parody and humour so tightly focussed, they've generated more laughter than any other filmmaker this year.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
04/06/06
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Frighteningly silly, intentionally incorrect and stupendously stupid, Scary Movie 4 skewers everything in its path with a wild-eyed glee that's contagious.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment 1 Comment
04/14/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

Stars Anna Faris and Craig Bierko display great comic timing, which is sad considering how little they have to work with.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
04/13/06
E! Online

For those jonesing for a loosely connected string of comedy sketches, heavy on the scatological humor, this is the fix.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/14/06
Angel Cohn
Angel Cohn
TV Guide's Movie Guide

I can take a gross movie as well as anyone, but seeing Leslie Nielsen naked in "Scary Movie 4" pretty much set the limit.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
04/20/06
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

for die-hard fans for whom there is no such thing as a poop gag taken too far and there can never, ever be too many Brokeback Mountain parodies

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/13/06
Anne Gilbert
Anne Gilbert
Filmcritic.com

Every scene looks like it was thrown together in two sloppy takes.

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
04/22/06
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Not surprisingly, the fourth installment is a total retread of its predecessor.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
04/13/06
Ben Wasserstein
Ben Wasserstein
Slate

Scary Movie 4 proves that downward momentum is still momentum, and some comedic concepts keep rolling long after they've exhausted almost all the laughs.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
04/13/06
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic

The latest example of cultural degeneration: The stupid Scary Movie franchise now has one more entry than the smart, satiric Scream series it originally set out to spoof.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
04/14/06
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Brian Marder
Brian Marder
Hollywood.com

Nothing here is red carpet, admirable entertainment, but compared to last February's bottom-feeding knockoff, Date Movie, the self-assured Scary Movie 4 looks like The 400 Blows.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
04/13/06
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

Starts with some promise. Unfortunately, when it takes a dive, it falls so fast the g-forces shock the audience into silence (no, they just got quiet because it stopped being funny).

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
04/14/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

If you enjoyed any of the previous Scary Movies this one will likely appeal to you. The humor is broad, but much of it hits.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
04/14/06
Chris Carle
Chris Carle
IGN Movies

Watching the movie is quite a bit like reading a slightly out-of-date Mad magazine or, I guess I should say, quite a bit like I remember Mad as a seventh-grader.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/13/06
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
 
 
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