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Scary Movie 2 isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.
An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
This time Wayans and company don't so much lampoon their targets as ineptly copy them.
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing.
If you took out all the jokes about bodily fluids, the movie could run five minutes instead of 83, and we could all go home.
The film never really regains the opening scene's momentum.
Dumb humor, insults and gallons of bodily fluids.
Scarily awful -- this spoof horror franchise needs a stake driven through its heart, and quick...
Perhaps if you send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope they'll tell us why this was thought to be funny.
It shows no understanding of or insight into the genre it's attempting to parody, nor indeed of cinema in general.
We can only hope this excrement masquerading as humor will bury the gross-out genre once and for all.
Basically just a bunch of silly spoof scenes cobbled together around a thin premise, it allows the Wayans brothers to have fun in the way a group of kids might have fun with a video camcorder, except with a multi-million-dollar budget.
If you didn't like the first one, stay away, but if you got a few good chuckles out of it, you'll get more of the same with the sequel. I guess it's a matter of personal (bad) taste.
In a classic 'too many cooks' scenario, Scary Movie 2 never manages to put even the semblance of a plot together.
the opening 15 minutes was absolutely gut-wretchingly hysterical. I laughed more at this second film than I did at the first one...
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