Scary Movie 4's biggest challenge is trying to stay relevant and original, and these writers could never be accused of being original
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Scary Movie 4 (2006)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:46
Rotten:77
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Sure to inspire a few chuckles, but not enough to compensate for the recycled material from its predecessors.
Theatrical Release:Apr 14, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $90,672,025
Synopsis: No spoof is left unturned in director and parody-meister David Zucker's SCARY MOVIE 4, the latest installment in the popular horror-cum-humor series. Among several returnees from previous films,... [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Chingy, André Benjamin, Carmen Electra
Director: David Zucker
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Reviews for Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie 4 never takes you close to death by laughter, as the Naked Gun films did. But it's funny enough to turn the hands on your watch much more quickly than you can believe.
04/14/06
Top CriticThe even numbers don't favor the Scary Movie franchise. Inspiration ran dry for the Wayans Brothers in No. 2; now successors David Zucker & Co suffer gag fatigue following up their moderately improving efforts on the third installment.
04/14/06
Top CriticFor those jonesing for a loosely connected string of comedy sketches, heavy on the scatological humor, this is the fix.
04/14/06
Scary Movie 4 is the second to be directed by Airplane! and The Naked Gun's David Zucker and possibly the funniest one yet.
04/14/06
Top CriticMuch of the humor feels tired and unfunny, and David Zucker's directing sags where it should zing.
04/14/06
Scary Movie 4 isn't a comedy classic, but it's still about five times as funny as Scary Movie 3.
04/14/06
Seriously. Bad. There, I just saved you 9 dollars.
04/14/06
It's a far cry from the hilarious, edgy antics of Scary Movie, but it has about as much going for it as the first sequel.
04/14/06
Top CriticScary Movie 4 is pretty frightening all right. It's positively terrifying that the Scary Movie franchise continues to soldier on when it should have been dead and buried years ago.
04/14/06
A throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks onslaught of potty jokes, puns, celebrity cameos, J-horror, and j-high sophistication and wit. You get laughs, but not nearly as many as you'd hoped.
04/14/06
The almost-annual Hollywood spoof Scary Movie 4 has arrived, and to paraphrase a tagline from one of its targets: Oh, yes, there will be spit takes.
04/14/06
With Scary Movie 4, [director] Zucker creates a virtual duplicate of the last film, replete with a Michael Jackson impersonator. Once again, the gags grow repetitive, and all the highlights have been featured in the preview trailer.
04/14/06
Top CriticThere are relatively few laughs -- unless you crave toilet humor -- in this direct-to-video-grade installment.
04/14/06
Top CriticThere's only so much humor left to wring from the pup tent of Brokeback Mountain or the matted-hair fetish of the Japanese horror genre.
04/14/06
Top CriticThe latest example of cultural degeneration: The stupid Scary Movie franchise now has one more entry than the smart, satiric Scream series it originally set out to spoof.
04/14/06
For people who like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing they like.
04/14/06
It’s not particularly good as a movie but as a collection of jokes it’s pretty sublime.
04/14/06
Scary Movie 4 has the feel of a film thrown together for a deadline, rather than conceived to poke fun at haunted house, ghost, alien and pop culture movies.
04/14/06
Four installments later, the horror-movie jokes have gotten broader, grosser and just plain dumber.
04/14/06
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