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43
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Scary Movie 2
Dimension Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, drugs and language
Starring
Anna Faris,
Shawn Wayans,
Marlon Wayans,
Tim Curry,
Chris Elliot,
Chris Masterson,
Tori Spelling,
and
David Cross
While "Scary Movie" targeted the onslaught of teen horror film flicks, the sequel takes aim at the root of the great classic horror movies. (Dimension Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Shawn Wayans,
Marlon Wayans,
Craig Wayans, Michael Anthony Snowden,
Dave Polsky, Greg Grabianski, Alison Fouse
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Keenen Ivory Wayans
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 18, 2001
Video: December 18, 2001
Theatrical: July 4, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
The Wayanses can be crude beyond crude, but they're so clever that their inventiveness takes the place of taste.

60
New Times (L.A.)
M.V. Moorhead
Most of it is incredibly, gleefully crude and tasteless, but it is also good-natured and harmless, and there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself laughing.

60
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing, and for fans of the demented comedy of Elliott and Cross, or the thespian chops of Woods (a last-minute replacement for an ailing Marlon Brando), it's worth putting up with humor that's the filmic equivalent of a big, spit-soaked raspberry.

50
TV Guide
Stephen Miller
A satisfying hatchet job on the spooky -- or as the Wayans see it, kooky -- world of supernatural pictures.

50
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Scary Movie 2 had seven writers. Seven. That's one writer for every big laugh in its stealthy 82 minutes. More frightening: these jokes are worth waiting for.

50
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
It's a formula and hard to describe as good in any artistic sense, but the viewers who pay to see it -- and many, many people are going to -- will get exactly what they want.

50
Boston Globe
Loren King
Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
A pure Frankenstein flick -- ugly, profane, terror-inducing, clumsy, nasty, desperate,
stupid, contemptible, horny and brought to life by schlocky, shoddy science and an electric wish to prove that its makers still matter.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
All-out burlesque rather than spoof from the outset, the film becomes less and less amusing. Wayans has a wild zaniness that can be hilarious, but how many bodily function jokes, ultra-crude sexual innuendoes and quite a lot of men and women simply punching each other out can one movie endure?

40
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Whenever the movie's not in the midst of a cinematic spoof it loses considerable steam.
38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The material has a definite "haven't-we-been over-this-before?" feel.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Scary Movie 2 has something for potheads and the potty-mouthed alike. Anyone looking for a true sequel, however, will be disappointed.

30
Variety
Robert Koehler
Technically and comedically strained by the demands of its special effects-filled haunted house setting. Worse, the need to top the first pic's outlandish stunts is ghoulishly unfulfilled and terribly ironic.

30
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
This crude comedy delivers on the "No Shame, No Mercy" threats from the original. Unfortunately, it all adds up to "No Good."

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The movie occasionally makes an unexpectereference -- though with more desperation than wit.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Desperately unfunny.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The Worst Comedy of the Year race heats up today with the release of Keenen Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie 2. This one is so bad, even Adam Sandler will be impressed.

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Shows about a third less craft than its all-too-lame predecessor, and it's only half as funny. If those are figures you can deal with, enter the theater at your own peril.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The whole thing reeks of sequelitis, with an emphasis on the rude and crude.

16
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Stinky, boring, aggressively unfunny picture.

16
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
There's a vicious, crude nerve that snakes through this sequel and it leaves no group unscarred -- but unfortunately, women and the handicapped take most of the thrusts.

10
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The Wayans brothers' new bottom-feeder signals its utter exhaustion -- and barely veiled contempt for the audience.

10
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.


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