The humor is mostly flat and obvious, but Anna Faris' ability to maintain a straight face as well as her dignity under the most demeaning of circumstances continues to impress.
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04/21/06
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,... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Chingy, André Benjamin, Carmen Electra
Director: David Zucker
Reviews for Scary Movie 4
There's possibly nothing sadder in the world of cinema than a comedy trying this hard for laughs.
04/20/06
The cleverness dies slowly in this horror spoof ... reaching bottom with a bevy of bathroom jokes and the offal appearance of Leslie Nielsen as a dithering, Bush-league president.
04/20/06
What makes it to the screen feels pretty joyless.
04/20/06
Unspectacular but hardly disastrous comedy.
04/20/06
I can take a gross movie as well as anyone, but seeing Leslie Nielsen naked in "Scary Movie 4" pretty much set the limit.
04/20/06
Thin on plot even by spoof standards, Scary Movie 4 runs like clockwork for 80 minutes. It's a movie strangely lacking in both comedic highs and lows.
04/19/06
If `Scary Movie 4' had a sell-by date, it would likely be 12/31/05. Any viewing after then may cause food poisoning.
04/19/06
More disposable than a five-day-old Good News razor, David Zucker's Scary Movie 4 is strictly a movie for the moment.
04/19/06
You know exactly what you're going to get, and you get it. Is that so wrong?
04/18/06
The jokes miss more than they hit, but there are a lot of them, and when they work, it's gold.
04/18/06
Cheap laughs are better than no laughs at all.
04/18/06
there are just barely enough of these hits to make this 4th installment in the spoof trilogy into a mild winner.
04/17/06
There's a kinda/sorta plot going on here that strings together a bunch of gags, which work more often than not.
04/17/06
Spoofing on surprisingly solid footing for a third sequel, Scary Movie 4 continues the shift from horror to slap-shtick that director David Zucker began with No. 3 in 2003.
04/17/06
Faris is left to pathetically flail for laughs by getting, you guessed it, bonked on the head. First, she gets hit with a baseball and then (spoiler alert!) she's drilled with a football.
04/17/06
Having director David Zucker (The Naked Gun) take on the latest Scary Movies has made the franchise slightly more watchable %u2026 even so, this series of action spoofs is difficult to watch.
04/16/06
For what it's worth, Scary Movie 4 probably is the best entry in this strangely resilient series.
04/16/06
...a cockeyed collection of watered-down, lowbrow parodies that have all the revered spark of a joy buzzer jolting an arthritic patient during a spontaneous handshake.
04/15/06
The biggest joke in Scary Movie 4 is that somebody made it.
04/15/06
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