Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage.
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:11
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Though an improvement over the second Scary Movie, the laughs are still inconsistent.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for pervasive crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and drug references
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $109,838,872
Synopsis: The comedy spoof series that knows no fear is at it again with its funniest installment yet: SCARY MOVIE 3. Taking shots at the latest crop of block-busters, SCARY MOVIE 3 irreverently roasts "The... The comedy spoof series that knows no fear is at it again with its funniest installment yet: SCARY MOVIE 3. Taking shots at the latest crop of block-busters, SCARY MOVIE 3 irreverently roasts "The Ring," "Signs," "Matrix Reloaded," "Eight Mile," "The Others" and more, as well as pop culture trends such as "American Idol." The film brings director David Zucker back to the genre he helped create with the classics "Airplane!," "Naked Gun," "Naked Gun 2 1/2" and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult." The cast of SCARY MOVIE 3 includes Anna Faris as eager anchorwoman Cindy Campbell; Charlie Sheen as the aliens-attracting farmer Tom and Denise Richards as his hapless wife Annie; Eddie Griffin as Orpheus and Queen Latifah as The Oracle, Aunt Shaneequa; Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy as Catholic School Girls; Leslie Nielsen as the President of The United States; Simon Rex as rap-star wannabe George; Jeremy Piven as reporter Ross Giggins; Camryn Manheim as the formidable Trooper Champlin; Regina Hall as eerie school teacher Brenda Meeks; Anthony Anderson as rap promoter Mahalik; as well as George Carlin. Fat Joe, Simon Cowell, Method Man, Redman, Macy Gray, Master P., Ja Rule, D.L. Hughley, Wu Tang Clan and The Coors Twins. The producer is Robert K. Weiss. -- © Dimension Films [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Anthony Anderson, Pamela Anderson
Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Anthony Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Peter Boyle, George Carlin, Fat Joe, William Forsythe, Simon Rex, Jeremy Piven, Regina Hall
Director: David Zucker
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Brian Lynch, Craig Mazin, Pat Proft, Hayden Schlossberg, Phil Beauman, Jonathan Hurwitz, Alison Fouse
Producer: David Zucker, Robert K. Weiss
Composer: James Venable
Studio: Dimension Films
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Sep 20, 2005
Reviews for Scary Movie 3
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.
[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.
It's all been there, razzed that, with long flat valleys stretching beneath the comic peaks.
There are a few laughs in Scary Movie 3, but most of the content is hopelessly dated.
The Naked Gun 33 1/3 wasn't the final insult from a founding ZAZ (Zucker/Abrams/Zucker) member; this is.
Scary Movie 3 is a veritable time capsule of of-this-moment kitsch, schlock and bad taste. And it's funny, too.
Despite one of the year's best trailers, this horror-film spoof is as laugh-challenged as the woeful first sequel.
It has the tasteless thing going on but no film can succeed on vomit alone.
If you don't think Mother Teresa commemorative bobbleheads are funny, this movie is definitely not for you.
The movie is filled with famous and semi-famous faces, although only two of them work for their laughs and get them.
The last 15 minutes of this movie feel as sleepy and uninspired as the last 30 of any recent episode of Saturday Night Live. But the movie has given up long before that.
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