Average Rating: 5.5/10
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Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 52
Critics say Scary Movie overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 14
Critics say Scary Movie overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.
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After parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. As you might expect, a group of teenagers -- not-terribly-bright Buffy (Shannon Elizabeth), her best friend Brenda (Regina Hall), stoner Shorty (Marlon Wayans), fey football player Ray (Shawn Wayans),
R, 1 hr. 28 min.
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman, Jason Friedberg
Jul 7, 2000 Wide
Dec 12, 2000
$156.5M
Dimension Films
All Critics (115) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (53) | DVD (20)
The kind of thing that leads to sleepless nights -- from severely bruised rib cages.
There's energy and glee in the movie, as if the Wayans brothers were still little boys, desperately working to out-gross each other. Naughty little boys and girls everywhere, even those who have officially grown up, will appreciate their commitment.
Would it be asking too much if the hit-and-miss jokes could maybe nudge an inch beyond the obvious?
To get your money's worth, you need to be familiar with the various teenage horror franchises, and if you are, Scary Movie delivers the goods.
This movie, by any name, would be as entertaining.
Like most gag-driven farces, it's a hit or miss affair.
This movie will only frighten you with its crudeness.
Ends up being less funny than its primary target, the already-self-satirizing Scream series.
Scary 1 is a funny slasher while Scary 2 switches to the supernatural. Scary 3 is faintly X-Files-ish and Scary 4 is distinctly sci-fi. They're so clever.
The appeal seems to lie less in laughter than in respect for the filmmakers' irreverence as viewers sit back and think, "I can't believe they showed that!"
Is it gross? Yes. Is it tasteless? Yes. And you can say the very same thing about the films that Scary Movie parodies.
If you're hoping to forget your troubles for 90 minutes, Scary Movie certainly does the job.
Does its spoofing with a blunt instrument instead of a scalpel, and it's engineered to appeal to the lowest instincts of its targeted adolescent audiences.
Scary Movie's humor is definitely in the gutter.
The humor in this movie is based on the concept that if enough jokes are fired off in a row, some of them will make you laugh. The concept works.
Scary Movie is a sporadically hilarious parody of teen horror movies that too frequently seems half-baked.
Make no mistake -- this one is lowbrow comedy all the way.
[The Wayans'] approach, incorporating the crude humor that has become so popular of late, generates an unfortunate digression from the point.
The air of desperation is emphasised by the insistence on padding out horror-movie gags with crude Farrelly-style humour.
An obvious mickey take that had some rather funny and clever moments parodying other movies. The father of all parodies, this spawned several others. But this is original and an easy watch. I loved the bit with the Scream guy smoking pot, really funny face.
February 17, 2006Super Reviewer
Funny, but not that much.
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
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