It’s not particularly good as a movie but as a collection of jokes it’s pretty sublime.
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04/14/06
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
Scary Movie 4 has the feel of a film thrown together for a deadline, rather than conceived to poke fun at haunted house, ghost, alien and pop culture movies.
04/14/06
Four installments later, the horror-movie jokes have gotten broader, grosser and just plain dumber.
04/14/06
Don't let the number scare you: Scary Movie 4 is spooferific.
04/14/06
Frighteningly silly, intentionally incorrect and stupendously stupid, Scary Movie 4 skewers everything in its path with a wild-eyed glee that's contagious.
04/14/06
Scary Movie 4 is the rare movie spoof that's actually better than the titles it lampoons.
04/14/06
Scary Movie 4 has about as many laughs as the two previous Scary Movies combined. Faint praise, of course, as those films had maybe four or five laughs between them.
04/14/06
The three preceding Scary Movie films were all bad, yet, nevertheless, better than this.
04/14/06
The perpetual engine of the unkillable Scary Movie chain is toxic cynicism.
04/14/06
The early promotional screening forbade internet press even though there was nothing to be afraid of. It is a cleverly integrated spoof.
04/14/06
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).
04/14/06
For every sharp one-liner or bright sight gag, there are five clunkers, including played-out references to Russell Crowe's phone-throwing incident and a lazy jab at Michael Jackson's fondness for little boys.
04/14/06
Even at 75-ish minutes, the thing practically limps to the finish line, desperately tossing random gags up on the screen.
04/14/06
The Scary Movie franchise is running out of steam pretty fast. They're still funny, and the gags still work. But there's only so far you can go with it.
04/14/06
For slapsticky, loose-limbed, MAD Magazine-style movie satires, you can do no better than the works of director David Zucker.
04/13/06
Zucker and his team don't seem to be trying anymore.
04/13/06
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.
04/13/06
Why must Hollywood torment so those of us with IQs in the triple digits?
04/13/06
I really hate to admit this, but the film made me laugh on several occasions.
04/13/06
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
04/13/06
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