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Scary Movie
marks the cinematic comeback of the "spoof movie", this time
lampooning the recent trend in post-modern slasher flicks, such as
Scream
and
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Already its box-office success ensures a sequel, and perhaps another upsurge
in the spoof genre following turgid efforts post-"Naked Gun 2".
But it's very hard to see why! "Scary Movie" is not only not very funny,
it's also not very scary - so fails on both counts. It's a spoof that almost
makes Mel Brooks' "Robin Hood: Mean In Tights" look like a masterpiece! The
problems are very simple; its targets are obvious, its gags are obvious, it
relies too heavily on badtaste, it has no likeable characters, and the plot
is a poor scene-by-scene reworking of "Scream".
Put simply - "Scary Movie" is just plain lazy. Its characters are stolen
from "Scream" (Cindy, Doofy, Gail Hailstorm, etc), the plot is mostly
directly stolen from "Scream", and it 're-enacts' scenes from "Blair Witch"
and
Sixth Sense
to supposedly hilarious effect. But it's not hilarious in
the slightest - it's just apeing superior movies.
There's a serious lack of invention and wit to counteract the simplistic
spoofing, and when things get stagnant they just rely on gross-out humour.
The worst offender is a head-impalement involving a penis in a toilet
cubicle - mainly because there is absolutely no reason for that scene to
exist! The writers just lazily thought they'd 're-enact' the knife/cubicle
scene from
Scream 2
but... er... with a penis. That's the kind of level we're at here, everyone...
Don't get me wrong. Bad-taste humour can work in films (watch "There's
Something About Mary"), but when it's at the expense of logic and lacks any
kind of wit, it's simply a childish exercise from uncreative minds. "Scary
Movie" is a pretty dismal effort and will reaffirm beliefs that "Airplane!"
and "Naked Gun" still can't be bettered. The sad fact is that "Scary Movie"
doesn't even try and be anything other than a by-the-numbers re-telling of
"Scream" with pastiches of various other movies jammed into proceedings. The
few good moments are in the trailer (all of them, trust me!) and the rest is
just purile and desperate material. If they weren't lampooning a
high-profile genre, this would deservedly be a straight-to-video release.
Some have said that "Scary Movie" should hammer final nail in the slasher
genre... but I doubt it, because this feeble effort doesn't even have the
creativity of "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" ! Instead, its
content could setback the spoof genre. Its unbelievable success (based purely on the
admittedly chucklesome trailers) should ensure imitators jumping on the
bandwagon -- and I can only hope they don't imitate the crude level of
humour. They should do themselves a favour and rewatch "Airplane!" or
"Hot Shots 2" to see how it should be done.
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