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Scary Movie 2 (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 13
Rotten:89
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Consensus: Instead of being funny, this gross-out sequel plays like a sloppy, rushed-out product.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong crude sexual humor, language, drug use and violence
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jul 4, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $70,916,568
Synopsis: The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and... The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well as Anna Faris and Regina Hall in addition to some new faces added to the gross-out fun, including Chris Elliott as a caretaker with a deformed hand that he uses extensively in his cooking, Tim Curry as a professor with a thing for the girls, David Cross as a wheelchair-bound computer geek with a great combover, and Tori Spelling as a hot teenager looking for some ghostly action. The movie begins with a prologue that spoofs THE EXORCIST, with Andy Richter as the young priest, James Woods as the old priest, and Natasha Lyonne as the poor possessed child with the salty tongue. From there the plot uses and abuses from Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING--in this case, a group of college students must spend a weekend in a haunted castle in exchange for receiving an A from their naughty professor. Once again Keenen Ivory Wayans directs, this time borrowing liberally from such classic (and not-so-classic) films as THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, FRIDAY THE 13TH, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, POLTERGEIST, GHOSTBUSTERS, AMERICAN PIE, PAULIE, THE ENTITY, THE INVISIBLE MAN, DIRTY HARRY, WHAT LIES BENEATH, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, ROCKY, CAT PEOPLE, THE FOG, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, TWISTER, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, M:I-2, and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, among countless others. [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, David Cross
Starring: Anna Faris, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, David Cross, Tim Curry, Chris Elliott, Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Andy Richter, Tori Spelling, James Woods, Richard Moll, Kathleen Robertson
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alison Fouse, Greg Grabianski, Michael Anthony Snowden, Craig Wayans, Dave Polsky
Producer: Eric L. Gold
Studio: Dimension Films
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Reviews for Scary Movie 2
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...
The creators of Scary Movie 2 have forgotten one crucial fact about the horror genre--for every Scream 2 there are twenty Blair Witch 2s.
It's just terrible, with long stretches in which the sea of writers don't even try to insert any humour, followed by an attempted joke that doesn't work on any level.
That the first film's primary target/model was Scream and that this one's is The Haunting says everything about its creative bankruptcy.
The film had eleven writers. I don't see why it needed any. It's unstructured, plotless, and even the truly funny moments are merely juvenile stabs in the dark.
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