Scary Movie 3 (2003)

All Critics (135) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (85) | 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.

June 23, 2008 Full Review

Dennis Harvey

Variety

Top Critic

Zucker's slapstick may have the satiric delicacy of a chainsaw lobotomy, but it hasn't harmed the franchise.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Derek Adams

Time Out

Top Critic

A hit-or-miss affair, but the gags that connect really connect.

October 29, 2003 Full Review

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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.

October 28, 2003 Full Review

David Ng

Village Voice

Top Critic

... this genre is pretty much dead.

October 27, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

[David] Zucker's film ultimately comes up short because he doesn't seem to want to slow down as he gets older.

October 24, 2003

Matt Bonesteel

Washington Post

Top Critic

This PG-13 has R-rated stuff.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

It won't change the way movies are made with its hit and miss gags, but it's better than the second film...

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Be afraid, be very afraid.

June 23, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Film4

Basically, any movie that suffers from a lack of Charlie Sheen has got problems.

April 1, 2006 Full Review

Empire Magazine

Dials back a bit on the gross-out, bodily fluid humor of the first two entries...

October 4, 2005 Full Review

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

...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)

September 27, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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.

September 23, 2005 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

A painfully long extended scene between Sheen and Richards was mercifully cut, simply because it is just gross.

September 21, 2005 Full Review

Michael Szymanski

Wordmag.com

Fun, stupid stuff with no sense of a narrative arc or plot structure ... but hey, it made me laugh anyway.

September 17, 2005 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

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."

September 11, 2005

Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

If you're looking for anything other than a parody clipshow, you won't find it.

July 20, 2004 Full Review

Joe Utichi

FilmFocus

• 1. Mahalik: This morning she woke up dead!
  2. Carson Ward: How the hell do you wake up dead?
  – Submitted by JuanYamanda R (7 months ago)
• 1. Cindy: [hugging George] [crying] It's so hard.
  2. George: Well, you're a beautiful woman, and you're pressing up against me.
  – Submitted by Nikita W (10 months ago)
• 1. Cindy: So can you tell me about...
  2. Aunt SahNeequa: The tape?
  3. Cindy: Yes. I watched it and...
  4. Aunt SahNeequa: The phone rang.
  5. Cindy: Right. Then this voice said...
  6. Aunt SahNeequa: That you would die in seven days.
  7. Cindy: Okay, that's getting...
  8. Aunt SahNeequa: Extremely annoying.
  9. Cindy: Yeah.
  10. Orpheus: Try being married to her. I catch shit about women I ain't slept with yet.
  – Submitted by Nikita W (10 months ago)
• 1. Becca: This is really weird... [referring to ringing phone]
  2. Kate: Yeah... Big house, only one phone... [picks up phone] Hello? [passes it to Becca]
  3. Becca: Hello? Voice on Phone: I'm coming for you my precious... Becca: [looks relieved] Hi Mom...
  – Submitted by Nikita W (10 months ago)
• 1. The Architect: I call he Linda. [some time later] She is built for two and he vibrates. [farting sound briefly]
  – Submitted by Anirudh R (11 months ago)
• 1. The Architect: We loved our daughter very much, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. Hid the remote. Really sick shit.
  – Submitted by Hasan R (12 months ago)

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