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Scary Movie 3 (2003)

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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.

Comedy

Directed By: David Zucker

Written By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Brian Lynch, Craig Mazin, Pat Proft

In Theaters: Oct 24, 2003 Wide

On DVD: May 11, 2004

Box Office:$109.8M

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Critic Reviews for Scary Movie 3

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.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

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

October 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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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 Source: Village Voice

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David Ng

Village Voice

Top Critic

... this genre is pretty much dead.

October 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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[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 Comment

Matt Bonesteel

Washington Post

Top Critic

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.

October 24, 2003 Comment

Teresa Wiltz

Washington Post

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This PG-13 has R-rated stuff.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Be afraid, be very afraid.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

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

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Empire Magazine

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

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Derek Adams

Time Out

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

October 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine

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Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine Source: 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 Source: Movie Metropolis

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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 Source: Combustible Celluloid

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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 | Comment

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 Source: DVDTalk.com

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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 Comment

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 Source: FilmFocus

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Joe Utichi

FilmFocus

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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, 2011

Sophie Burgess

Super 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

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

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1. The President: Get off my planet you alien.
– Submitted by Andrew P (18 days ago)
1. Brenda Meeks: Cindy, the TV's leaking.
– Submitted by Emma B (5 months ago)
1. Becca: Oh my god turn it off!
2. Kate: [Remote is turned backwards] I can't!
3. Becca: What do we do?
– Submitted by James W (9 months ago)