Scary Movie 2Year: 2001 Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans Written by: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Greg Grabianski, Dave Polsky, Michael Anthony Snowden, Craig Wayans Threat: Ghost Weapon of Choice: Guns Based upon: Parodies Hannibal, What Lies Beneath, and The Haunting (1999) IMDb page: |
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Other movies in this series:
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 3
Rish Outfield's reviews
Although we both gave it a negative review, I will be quick to admit that I laughed a
lot through Scary Movie 2. It was very funny in parts (in fact, the first ten minutes were
excellent), but other parts were only mildly amusing. And other parts sucked, kids.
The plot (no comments, please) was basically that the survivors from the original
and some new characters go to a spooky house with a murderous history, and stuff ensues
(including parodies/references to What
Lies Beneath, The Exorcist, Hannibal,
The Haunting remake, and Poltergeist).
Chris Masterson was good. Anna Farris was also good. Ditto James Woods. Chris
Elliot was probably the funniest part of the film, but that's still not saying a lot. The piece
was woefully uneven, and I think that's my main complaint. The original, though hardly
a classic, felt much more like a complete movie with a semi-consistent thread and story.
It also had better dialogue. Like the original, this had some very disgusting moments, but
this time, they were seldom funny.
The wheelchair gags seemed to be setting us up for a really funny one, but that never
came. The basketball sequence was as bad as the obscenely unfunny Lord of the Dance
scene in the original, only lasting thrice as long. The two of us rented the DVD and found
several of the deleted scenes to be not only necessary to the flow and story of the movie, but
much funnier than what stayed in the finished film. And I'm wary to call this a finished film.
It felt like a rushed compilation of sketches, with a poorly-executed bridge to connect them.
While I didn't see 2001's mega-bomb Glitter, I'm sure it was both funnier AND
scarier, than Scary Movie 2.
I'd Recommend It To: Well, here's the thing: although there was a lot to hate, I did laugh,
and fans of the original probably should see it once.
The tyranist's thoughts
I have to admit that as of the writing of this review, I've never seen Scary
Movie, therefore, you may discount what I say. Or not. I feel at least somewhat
qualified having sat through my share of crap.
First, there is no plot to this movie. I've seen more coherent themes stretch through an entire
episode of "Saturday Night Live" than they came up with here. In fact, Rish and I plugged on
through the deleted scenes after we finished with the main event (in spite of the fact that it was
4:00 AM) and one of the cut scenes actually explains the gigantic hole in the middle of the movie.
We could chalk that up to bad editing or simply that no one cared.
The characters aren't very interesting either. There was one, whose name I don't even remember
noticing, that I sort of like, but it was mostly because she was just around to look good and
kept her mouth shut for the most part.
The sketch comedy dialogue was often terrible and it was obvious that there really was no
script. Of course, when you have that many writers listed, you're bound to munge it all up
anyway. You know the aphorism about too many cooks.
Anyway, I'm now unlikely to see the first movie in the series even though I've heard it was
better. I'm also definitely not going to see the next entry in the series which threatens to not
be horror-related at all.
Maybe there was a reason "In Living Color" got cancelled.
Total Skulls: 23
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| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | |
Hannibal, What Lies Beneath, The Haunting (1999) |
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | |
Tori Spelling |
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | |
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| Characters forget about threat | |
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| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | |
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| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | |
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| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | |
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| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | |
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| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | |
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| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | |
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| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | |
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| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | |
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| What the hell? | |
