Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 126
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 81
Though an improvement over the second Scary Movie, the laughs are still inconsistent.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 19
Though an improvement over the second Scary Movie, the laughs are still inconsistent.
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While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen. This time around, aim is taken at such horror blockbusters as Signs and The Ring, while films of other genres, including Independence Day, 8 Mile, and The Matrix, are also lampooned. The plot finds Cindy (Faris)
PG-13, 1 hr. 28 min.
Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Brian Lynch, Craig Mazin, Pat Proft
Oct 24, 2003 Wide
May 11, 2004
$109.8M
Dimension Films
All Critics (134) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (84) | DVD (35)
Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage.
A hit-or-miss affair, but the gags that connect really connect.
Rebounds nicely from its sophomore misfire, giddily inbreeding the plots of a half-dozen box office overachievers-from The Ring to 8 Mile -- until the result assumes a comically unstoppable life of its own.
... this genre is pretty much dead.
[David] Zucker's film ultimately comes up short because he doesn't seem to want to slow down as he gets older.
If you haven't been a regular fixture at the multiplex, or don't spend all your time in front of the tube surfing hip-hop videos on MTV2, then you're not in on the joke, and if you're not in on the joke, you might want to skip this one.
This PG-13 has R-rated stuff.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Basically, any movie that suffers from a lack of Charlie Sheen has got problems.
Zucker's slapstick may have the satiric delicacy of a chainsaw lobotomy, but it hasn't harmed the franchise.
Dials back a bit on the gross-out, bodily fluid humor of the first two entries...
...the additional stuff makes the resultant movie a tad funnier and more resourceful than before and a mite more successful. (Special Unrated 3.5 Version)
As with Scary Movie parts one and two, you pays your money, you gets your laughs, and you won't remember a thing in a few months.
A painfully long extended scene between Sheen and Richards was mercifully cut, simply because it is just gross.
Fun, stupid stuff with no sense of a narrative arc or plot structure ... but hey, it made me laugh anyway.
This is just a stab in the dark, the wildest of guesses on my part, but I don't think Michael Jackson would recommend "Scary Movie 3."
If you're looking for anything other than a parody clipshow, you won't find it.
So much better than the second but in no way as good at the first, the jokes are a lot more original with several funny moments especially with the boy. Leslie Nielsen was a brilliant add to the series.
October 31, 2011Super Reviewer
Scary Movie 3 is the third uninspired entry of the Scary Movie franchise. With this third film, the filmmakers have clearly run out of ideas, and wrote this horrid mess of a "comedy". This film is unfunny, stupid and above all, a total waste of time. This has some awful jokes, bad acting, and the failed attempt at
September 20, 2011
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