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Scary Movie 2 (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 92

Instead of being funny, this gross-out sequel plays like a sloppy, rushed-out product.

7

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 27

Instead of being funny, this gross-out sequel plays like a sloppy, rushed-out product.

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Average Rating: 3/5
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Movie Info

This sequel to a box-office sleeper hit that spoofed teen slasher flicks takes its cues from haunted house and possession films, particularly The Haunting (1999) and The Exorcist (1973). Although many of the first film's main characters were homicide victims, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Anna Faris return anyway to "re-possess" their roles for this follow-up in which four students are invited by their professor (Tim Curry) to his haunted mansion, Hell House, for a weekend sleep-deprivation

Dec 18, 2001

$70.9M

Dimension Films

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All Critics (114) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (94) | DVD (19)

Scary Movie 2 isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.

October 29, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.

July 16, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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This time Wayans and company don't so much lampoon their targets as ineptly copy them.

July 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing.

July 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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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.

July 6, 2001 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
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The film never really regains the opening scene's momentum.

July 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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Dumb humor, insults and gallons of bodily fluids.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Scarily awful -- this spoof horror franchise needs a stake driven through its heart, and quick...

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Perhaps if you send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope they'll tell us why this was thought to be funny.

April 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | Comment

It shows no understanding of or insight into the genre it's attempting to parody, nor indeed of cinema in general.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

We can only hope this excrement masquerading as humor will bury the gross-out genre once and for all.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment

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.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment (1)
Film Quips Online

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.

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | Comment (1)
Montreal Film Journal

In a classic 'too many cooks' scenario, Scary Movie 2 never manages to put even the semblance of a plot together.

August 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

the opening 15 minutes was absolutely gut-wretchingly hysterical. I laughed more at this second film than I did at the first one...

June 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Scary Movie 2

Absolutely terrible. A complete remake rather than a sequel with the same jokes and situations around a different not very well thought out story. It's dumb that they kept the same characters who died in the last movie and simply not something I'd watch again.

October 31, 2011
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Sophie Burgess

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I remember thinking Scary Movie 2 was absolutely hilarious when I was fifteen. And I still find it funny enough to watch without getting bored, even though the biggest gags don't seem quite as amusing anymore and the jokes that miss are absolutely horrible. The humor is incredibly broad, crude, and childish, as

June 21, 2007
lewiskendell

Super Reviewer

    1. Cindy Campbell: I woke up and I was in this dress. What about you Ray?
    2. Ray Jones: Oh I got mine on Friday.
    – Submitted by Daniel S (6 months ago)
    1. Father Kerris: [Regans head turns 360'] Fuck this.
    – Submitted by Ali R (9 months ago)

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