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Scary Movie 2 (2001)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:2
Rotten:26
Average Rating:3.2/10
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
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.
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 inevitable sequel delivers the same schtick, but it's only fresh by half.
This isn't a movie -- it's a vaudeville sketch aimed at the lowest common denominator.
So remarkably shapeless you can imagine Shawn and Marlon hashing out scenes between presenters at last year's MTV Video Music Awards.
It shows no particular insight into the movies or cultural phenomena being mocked.
Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.
Watching Scary Movie 2 is like Chinese water torture -- you start dreading the next drip long before it drops.
Gone is the surprise, the laughter of disbelief that made Scary Movie such a vacation from civility.
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