Scary Movie (2000)

[baumer]

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[Jack Nevada]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSyVIbLh4QU

 

1,5/5

[Squaremaster316]

Better than any of its sequels, and some parts are laugh out loud funny in delivery and subject matter, but alot of the jokes just don't age well.

 

**3/4 out of *****

[baumer]

Funny, but more importantly, very intelligent, 9 July 2000If you are going to spoof some of the biggest films of the last few years, you had better know what you are talking about. You better make sure that you have something funny to say and an intelligent way of saying it because audiences, at one time or another, have already done, in their minds, what you are putting on film. We've already made cracks about how slow Michael, Jason and Freddy walk. We've already made comments about how it always seems to rain when women are running around with their see through blouses on. And we have already commented on how stupid Jennifer Love Hewitt is in I Know What You Did.... So to make a film that pokes fun at these films is not an afternoon excursion. It takes time, energy and research. And as a horror movie buff, an obsessed horror movie buff, I didn't have high hopes for this film, even with it's funny trailer. I thought that all the funny parts would be in the trailer and I would be left feeling cheated again as an apathetic spoof film about horror films came and went.I am glad to say that I was wrong. Not only is Scary Movie intelligent at it's look at scary movies over the last ten years, it is intelligent with many of it's other jokes. There is nothing prosaic about this effort.Scary Movie doesn't hold anything back. And I think it has the benefit of having Keanen Ivory Wayans direct it. Because some of the funnier jokes in the film are at the expense of black people. And since it is written by the Wayans ( who are very black )they can get away with more than a white guy could with some of the same material. For example, there is a scene in a movie theater when Regina King is talking too loud and she ends up being sliced, knifed and diced by the all white crowd. It is a very fuuny scene but one that a white director would have taken flack for no doubt. And when Marlon Wayans is telling another character about how there was a shooting at an all black showing of SCREAM, and everyone just left, again, it is funny but it is more accepted because it is a black person directing a black person. This is not to say that all the humour in the film is directed at blacks, because it's not. It's just that many of the scenes where blacks seem to make fun of themselves gets some of the best laughs.Some of the funniest jokes were about penises. One in particular when the Ryan Phillipe character from I KNOW has a picture delivered to him and it is him with an incredibly small member. He then shouts out, " This isn't funny. Having a small dick is a disability! You wouldn't make fun of a guy in a wheel chair now would you? " The crowd didn't stop laughing at that one for quite some time. There is also a funny parody on the "Whas UP!!! " Budweiser commercial and in one of the funniest scenes I have seen in any film in quite some time, a weed cutter is used to shave someone's pubic hair that has grown out of control.Scary Movie has a joke in every scene in the film and that is going to mean that not all of them are going to work, but most of them do. And not only is this film funny but it is smart. You will recall in Scream, the high school principal was from a 70's T.V. sitcom, well, so is he in here. You will recall in I STILL KNOW.... that when Jennifer Hewitt screams at the top of her lungs " What are you waiting for?" as the camera shoots an overhead view of her with her shirt wide open, so does Wayans. And the impression of Dewey is priceless. Also, Shawn Wayans does a pretty good impression of Mathew Lilliard from Scream, when near the end of the film he almost spits his word out to the camera. There are so many great moments of familiarity in here that if you do know the films that are being parodied, you are almost tempted to say to yourself, "Oh that's stupid, that part is so easy to spoof" until you realize that it takes a great mind that has at least somewhat of a love for the kinds of films he is making fun of.Scary Movie is funny, there is no doubt that but it is also smart and familiar. And that's not easy to do. This film is also raunchy, gross and it will probably be one of the top films of the summer. This has sleeper written all over it and that can be attributed to the Wayans brothers. They have written and directed a wonderful spoof of horror films and of films in general. And I highly recommend it.7.5 out of 10... Also watch for the smart take on the Usual Suspects. And see if you can figure out when it is going to come. It is also one of the funnier parts of the movie and it will make you curse yourself for not seeing it coming.

[Jack Nevada]

I like your review baumer, but I fail to understand where the intelligence comes in? What is saw was 90 minutes of puerile, forced comedy and references. Even as a spoof its not a clever one at all, imo

[TheMovieman]

Used to really like this movie but unsurprisingly, and unlike Airplane, it has not aged well.

 

**½/*****, (C, 5.2/10, 2/4)

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I love this movie, a great parody of Scream.

[baumer]

I like your review baumer, but I fail to understand where the intelligence comes in? What is saw was 90 minutes of puerile, forced comedy and references. Even as a spoof its not a clever one at all, imo

 

It's smart because it has a lot of references to a lot of horror films, not just the popular well known ones.  

[Rorschach]

A classic within my friend group, thanks to me introducing it to all of them. 

 

I almost died after watching this scene: