The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well as Anna Faris and Regina Hall in addition to some new faces added to the gross-out fun, including Chris Elliott .. Read more
| Starring | Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans |
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| Director | Keenen Ivory Wayans |
| Genres | Comedy, Horror |
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It wasn't a classic or particularly well made, but at least Scary Movie was good for a few honest Scream-inspired laughs. That original outing looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this uninspired profit-driven sequel. Barely competent on any technical or artistic level, what comic ingenuity and genre appreciation was shown the first time around has been replaced by boorish vulgarity and a desperation to get the audience to snigger at anything, no matter how lame, crude or obvious. Once past the opening where The Exorcist is amusingly sent up by James Woods in a cameo appearance as a priest (a role originally earmarked for Marlon Brando), it descends rapidly into lampooning the recent remake of The Haunting — so close to an awful self parody itself that any gags at its expense are depressingly redundant. Everything from Charlie's Angels and What Lies Beneath to Hannibal and even The Weakest Link are raked over for minimal laughs in a shoddy satire it took seven screenwriters to produce. It brings new depths to the term too many cooks spoil the broth.
"...SCARY MOVIE 2 does have the cutthroat cool that links it and the original to hip-hop, and the take-no-prisoners crush of energy and cruelty toward the targets of its spoofs..."
A movie with more writers than jokes, which, apart from an Exorcist spoof, are recycled from the first feeble effort; this is even feebler, if that were possible.
i think the producer should change the title 'scary movie 2' to 'how to loose your audiences in one sequal.' Well, we all know the basic ingrediences of the scary movie 1 was extrated from 'Scream 1. '
This time, it sticks its basic fomula to the film 'The Haunting', plus a variety of footages from movies such as 'Charlie's angels', 'The Mummy', 'Hollow Man', 'final destination', 'Child's play', 'The sixth sense', 'Hannibal'& 'Crouching tiger and hidden dragon',...etc.
Beacuse the story line tried too much to intergrate other movies' memorable moments into this film, it fails the impact and funny effect that was successfully created in the first scary movie. Well, there is only one good thing about this film for me, i treat this film as a memory test--it does help me to discover that i saw quite a lot of films in the past that i could be able to spot varied footages from this film....if you wanna test your film knowledges, rent it! or otherwise save your time and energy for something else.
Unfortunately the sequel was utter drivel and very, very rude compared to the first one. That's about all there is to say.
Why bother. This probably would have made more sense to see after the first movie, but still, the humour was a little too much involved in bodily fluids for my liking. Straight after dinner is not a good time to watch this film. Some funny parts are outstanding, but they are so few I could probably count them on one finger.
Far too many drug jokes - they're just not funny at all. In fact none of the attempted jokes in this movie are in the slightest bit funny - they are all too obvious, and the people involved clearly think they are being hilarious every time which takes a lot away from even the funniest of jokes. They repeat jokes from the first film, but don't even make them as good, let alone better - and the 'My germs' joke is one of the least funny, and most obviously TRYING to be funny things I've ever had the misfortune of witnessing.
dude i totally sh*t my pants after seeing this
scary as f*cking hell man
i think the producer should change the title 'scary movie 2' to 'how to loose your audiences in one sequal.' Well, we all know the basic ingrediences of the scary movie 1 was extrated from 'Scream 1. '
This time, it sticks its basic fomula to the film 'The Haunting', plus a variety of footages from movies such as 'Charlie's angels', 'The Mummy', 'Hollow Man', 'final destination', 'Child's play', 'The sixth sense', 'Hannibal'& 'Crouching tiger and hidden dragon',...etc.
Beacuse the story line tried too much to intergrate other movies' memorable moments into this film, it fails the impact and funny effect that was successfully created in the first scary movie. Well, there is only one good thing about this film for me, i treat this film as a memory test--it does help me to discover that i saw quite a lot of films in the past that i could be able to spot varied footages from this film....if you wanna test your film knowledges, rent it! or otherwise save your time and energy for something else.
Unfortunately the sequel was utter drivel and very, very rude compared to the first one. That's about all there is to say.
Why bother. This probably would have made more sense to see after the first movie, but still, the humour was a little too much involved in bodily fluids for my liking. Straight after dinner is not a good time to watch this film. Some funny parts are outstanding, but they are so few I could probably count them on one finger.
dude i totally sh*t my pants after seeing this
scary as f*cking hell man
Far too many drug jokes - they're just not funny at all. In fact none of the attempted jokes in this movie are in the slightest bit funny - they are all too obvious, and the people involved clearly think they are being hilarious every time which takes a lot away from even the funniest of jokes. They repeat jokes from the first film, but don't even make them as good, let alone better - and the 'My germs' joke is one of the least funny, and most obviously TRYING to be funny things I've ever had the misfortune of witnessing.
Really enjoyable film. Good ol laugh!
I loved Scary Movie 1. It stuck very close to the spoof genre like Naked Gun, etc.
However, this sequel was both unfunny and uncomfortable to watch. I sat through the whole film and didn't crack a smile. There were only a couple of spoofs of other films in the whole movie.
The film also tried repeating the same joke throughout - a course parrot that kept swearing - oh Wayan brothers how funny, how original - not!!!!!!
Avoid this film like the plague. However, if you feel like punishing someone by making them watch it then rent it!!
I thought the first Scary Movie was hilarious and was really looking forward to this one, and while it does have a number of funny moments it relys a bit too much on vulgar gross-out humour to get the laughs. It still has some stand-out funny moments but lacks the charm of the first film. Overall definately worth a watch but an inferior follow-up
On the whole this is a good and entertaining movie - with no explanation for anything... and, like one other such review, can be very daft at times! But it's all in the name of comedy and, I suppose, it works. Rent this if you want to laugh sore!
This film, and i use the term in the loosest form, starts of poorly and goes downhill from there. It runs out of steam about 10 minutes in, and just isn't funny by any standard. After seeing this you will understand why the Wayans weren't allowed anywhere the 3rd instalment.
It wasn't a classic or particularly well made, but at least Scary Movie was good for a few honest Scream-inspired laughs. That original outing looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this uninspired profit-driven sequel. Barely competent on any technical or artistic level, what comic ingenuity and genre appreciation was shown the first time around has been replaced by boorish vulgarity and a desperation to get the audience to snigger at anything, no matter how lame, crude or obvious. Once past the opening where The Exorcist is amusingly sent up by James Woods in a cameo appearance as a priest (a role originally earmarked for Marlon Brando), it descends rapidly into lampooning the recent remake of The Haunting — so close to an awful self parody itself that any gags at its expense are depressingly redundant. Everything from Charlie's Angels and What Lies Beneath to Hannibal and even The Weakest Link are raked over for minimal laughs in a shoddy satire it took seven screenwriters to produce. It brings new depths to the term too many cooks spoil the broth.
"...SCARY MOVIE 2 does have the cutthroat cool that links it and the original to hip-hop, and the take-no-prisoners crush of energy and cruelty toward the targets of its spoofs..."
A movie with more writers than jokes, which, apart from an Exorcist spoof, are recycled from the first feeble effort; this is even feebler, if that were possible.
When, after the unexpected success of the first Scary Movie, Miramax immediately demanded a sequel, director Wayans and... read more on Time Out
"There's a pretty funny parody of CHARLIE'S ANGELS tucked inside SCARY MOVIE 2..."