Directed by: Michael Tiddes
Starring: Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Regina Hall, Olivia Rose Keegan. Cheri Oteri
Scary Movie, or Scary Movie 6, plays like a mish mosh of recycled gags and quotation masquerading as satire. Pointing out that something exists isn't the same providing a humorous point of view. Scary Movie thinks being meta should be funny enough, but it draws nary a laugh. I think I smiled once at one line, "You're like John Wick. I was going to say Ballerina, but nobody saw that," There. I saved you the price of admission.
The plot doesn't much matter except that Ghostface, also of the Scream movies, is back terrorizing a small town and popping up everywhere to kill people. This draws the characters from the original Scary Movie (2000) back into the fold and we have a long discussion about "requels" which is eerily similar to the one from Scream 5 (or Scream). We also think of 2018's Halloween, which had the same title as the original 1978 film and asked you to wipe away memories of any sequels that occurred between the original and 2018. No worries. I beat you to it a long time ago.
Movies like Scary Movie aren't made to judge the plot. It is to be judged on how often you laugh, and I confess I didn't laugh at all. The movie hurls sight gags and verbal humor at the screen at a dizzying rate in the hope that something sticks. Nothing does this time. The method worked in the original Scary Movie and Airplane! but here, it doesn't. When reviewing a movie like this one, not many criteria other than laugh quotient matters.
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