Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Starring: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Cheri Oteri, Carmen Electra, Jon Abrahams, Kurt Fuller
Like Airplane! or The Naked Gun movies, Scary Movie was built as a ninety-minute yuk fest satirizing the trend in slasher movies of the time. It made me laugh often enough to give it three stars. A great number of visual, physical, and verbal gags are hurled at the viewer. More often than not, they stick and that is what is expected.
There is a plot of sorts in Scary Movie, in which teenagers are hunted and hacked to death by a masked slasher wearing the same outfit as the killer in the Scream movies. Scary Movie skewers Scream, The Matrix, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Sixth Sense, and even The Usual Suspects. Some of its targets are silly already, but Scary Movie finds an extra dimension.
Scary Movie, in the Airplane! and Naked Gun tradition, will stoop to any depths for a laugh. We even witness a man stabbed through the head with a penis via a glory hole. That is something I haven't seen before or since. The movie's poster promised "No Sequel". There were many Scary Movie sequels, each lesser than the original, but what else would you expect?
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