Scary Movie Reviews

mindless fun

Full Review | Original Score: C+

This movie will only frighten you with its crudeness.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Ends up being less funny than its primary target, the already-self-satirizing Scream series.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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!"

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If you're hoping to forget your troubles for 90 minutes, Scary Movie certainly does the job.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Scary Movie's humor is definitely in the gutter.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The kind of thing that leads to sleepless nights -- from severely bruised rib cages.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Scary Movie is a sporadically hilarious parody of teen horror movies that too frequently seems half-baked.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Make no mistake -- this one is lowbrow comedy all the way.

| Original Score: 2/4

[The Wayans'] approach, incorporating the crude humor that has become so popular of late, generates an unfortunate digression from the point.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The air of desperation is emphasised by the insistence on padding out horror-movie gags with crude Farrelly-style humour.

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This is Dumb American Comedy at its best and well worth 90 minutes of your time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Scary Movie is sporadically hilarious, and worth seeing for that...

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I couldn't help wishing I were watching that obscure little children's fantasy instead. As I recall, it's a lot funnier and more frightening than Scary Movie.

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By far director/actor Keenen Ivory Wayans' best parody effort to date, primarily because he here taps into a rejuvenated genre and is given access to broader subject matter with universal appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

One of the most appallingly hysterical movies of all time.

Full Review | Original Score: short

The film just uses the scattershot approach to parody: Throw constant jokes at the screen and some of them will stick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5