Loading ...Movie Review - Scary Movie 2
User Rating:
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
2001 / 83 Minutes / R
Reviewed by Dale Nauertz
This is going to be short.
I really only have one problem with “Scary Movie 2″: it wasn’t funny. Okay, maybe it goes a bit deeper than that. For example, “Shallow Hal” wasn’t exactly hilarious either, but it had great characters and it was solidly written. It also had warmth and compassion. “Scary Movie 2″ has pathetic movie parodies that mostly misfire, no likable characters (well, okay, James Woods, Andy Richter and the cat, but that’s it) and it has no novelty. Whatever freshness and novelty this sorry franchise (Dear God, please let this be the last one) had was shot the first time around. And, if you will refer to my review of the original “Scary Movie”, you will note that I wasn’t really that enthusiastic even about that one. This one is so bad that, for the most part, I found myself thinking wistfully back to the mild atrocity that was “Scary Movie 1″.
Any discussion of the plot would be an exercise in futility. These sort of movies have no plot. They have no character development. They are machines for the manufacture of laughter and, as such, are comedies stripped directly to their essentials. The essential factor of any comedy is laughter and the generation of it. “Scary Movie 2″ is hilarious for its first five minutes or so (the inspired “Exorcist” parody, which is almost worth the price of a rental on its own) and the scene involving an irate feline and a broken beer bottle. Otherwise, I may have chuckled as much as twice. But that was it. It’s lame. It’s pathetic. You can see every joke hobbling at you from a mile away. This movie is terrible and stupid and irritating at every turn. It doesn’t even stay on target. It’s a bad movie when, as Jones so elegantly put it, even Chris Elliot is slumming with his appearance in it.
I hated this movie. It’s crap with two funny scenes. Now, let’s move on.
