An Unfunny Insult to Viewers

Scary Movie Dir: Keenan Ivory Wayana Starring Ana Faris Shannon Elizabeth Shawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Cheri Oteri 2000 R 88 m RATING: 3 out of 10

DEAD MEN FILIMG:  Ana Faris goes Matrix in the Waynseses loud, offensive, insulting, and reprehensible parody of parody.

Scary Movie could have been fun.  It COULD have been side-splitting hilarity.  Unfortunately, the scrip tseems to have been written by adolescents with hormone-induced stupidity and immaturity. Scary Movie is filled to the brim with joke that fall flat: there are unnceccsary flatulence jokes, body fluid/sex jokes to the extreme, genitalia that does not look fake at all, and some scenes that are directly lifted from other horror movies in hopes of being parodied that instead drag on and one, forever, to a laughless death.  The ONLY scene that is a brilliantly inspired parody is NOT from a horror movie, and it comes at the VERY end of the film. An R-rating? It's ludicrous that serious, quality films like Tom Soldonz' Happiness and others are condemned by the MPAA to have scenes cut or be released unrated for having controversial topics and/or scenes.  This piece of dreck drags out some of the most offensive, thoroughly squirm-inducing, and tasteless acts, language, and images ever imagined, yet got stamped with an R-rating just fine. And as for the Wayanseses, their creativity seems to have dwindled immensely ever since "In Living Color" ended.  Their show was a funny, brilliant, daring satire at times.  This movie, however, is a testament to how dumb-downed, empty, and money-hungry some entertainers become for a paycheck thanks to the Hollywood system.

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