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Scary Movie 4
EMAILPRINTThe Weinstein Company

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 78 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Horror
Written by:
Craig Mazin (also story)
Jim Abrahams
Directed by: David Zucker
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 14, 2006
DVD: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 83 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor throughout, some comic violence and language
Starring Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Kimani Ray Smith, Carmen Electra, Shaquille O'Neal, and Dr. Phillip C. McGraw
What do you get when you mix fearless comedic genius with the latest box-office blockbusters? You guessed it. The Scary Movie gang is back with the most hilarious and irreverent installment yet. (The Weinstein Company)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Scary Movie Scary Movie 2 Scary Movie 3
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
About five times as funny as "Scary Movie 3."
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Grierson
The sort of movie you like in spite of yourself, Scary Movie 4 is obvious and dumb, but it possesses such a giddy, good-hearted spirit that even its terrible jokes (and there are tons) get by on something resembling charm.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
This a rapid-fire romp through "War of the Worlds," "Saw," "The Grudge" and "The Village," cut up into skits and pieced back together in some mutant jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing, delivers a barrage of low-minded gags with high-spirited energy.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Anna Faris, her deadpan comic timing still a joy to watch, returns as Cindy Campbell, one of two main holdovers from the first three movies.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
Writing, casting and pacing are vital. Scary Movie 4 doesn't let any gag get stale. It's rapid-fire, hit-and-miss and hit-and-strike comedy.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
There are plenty of chuckles at the expense of Dr. Phil, Shaquille O'Neal, Carmen Electra, Charlie Sheen and series stalwart Leslie Nielsen. But with no comic carryover from one skit to the next, true belly laughs are few and far between.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
And as ever, the jokes are a jumble of the gross, the baggy, the raunchy, the mistimed, and - every once in a while - the refreshingly incorrect.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The humor emphasizes quantity over quality, but the batting average isn't too bad. And where else can you witness Leslie Nielsen do a nude scene?
Read Full Review >The New York Times Nathan Lee
The fun of Scary Movie 4 is that it isn't a movie at all. Organized on the principle of parody, not plot, driven by gags and cultural feedback, it's an exercise in lowbrow postmodernism, a movie-movie contraption more nuts than Charlie Kaufman's gnarliest fever dream. It's cleverly stupid.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
But for those jonesing for a loosely connected string of comedy sketches, heavy on the scatological humor, this is the fix.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
To go with the good, there's plenty of bad, and it comes in the form of countless gags that misfire, far too much flatulence and urine, and (God help us) a buck naked Leslie Nielsen. Admittedly, that scene certainly puts the "scary" in Scary Movie 4.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil open Scary Movie 4 with an achingly unfunny couple of minutes of severed limbs and errant hoop shots.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Luke Y. Thompson
The jokes miss more than they hit, but there are a lot of them, and when they work, it's gold.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
The best parts come in the rare moments when the film decides to break from formula, as when old Zucker-team warhorse Leslie Nielsen returns as the U.S. President.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Clint Morris
The series has turned into the cinematic equivalent of a flat bicycle tyre – it starts off with lots of air in it, but can quickly go flat when punctured.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The fourth installment in the horror-parody franchise combines plot elements from "The Grudge," "The Village," and "War of the Worlds," with abbreviated spoofs of "Saw," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Million Dollar Baby." The amount of screen time allotted to each movie is roughly proportional to its box office take, suggesting that the first draft of the screenplay was written on a calculator.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Scary Movie 4 finds horror parody overshadowed by ho-hum groin blows, C-list celebrity cameos, slapstick child abuse, soon-to-be-forgotten hip-hop personalities, plus scatalogical and gay jokes; real laughs are few.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
Isn't it amazing to see just how low some people will stoop if you pay them enough?
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Scary Movie 4 concludes by satirizing Cruise's couch-jumping orgy on "Oprah." Funny, but nowhere near as hilarious as the real thing.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
So lazy it's downright boring, something not even a naked Leslie Nielson (!) can salvage.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 78 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gavin C gave it a5:
Unfortunately, this installment is simply less funny than all the other films.
Enzo P. gave it a5:
Scary Movie 4 is funny laugh out loud but it still doesn't compare to the first and the third film. Also the stupidness wasn't as high as the second scary movie. But overall a good spoof movie.
[Anonymous] gave it a6:
A bit over the top, but still delivered a signifacant amount of laughs. And as for Reece S. saying "its only funny if your a two year old" uh, no, this movie is not appropriate for a two year old. Maybe i you had said "only funny for a twelve year old" or something along that line i'd have been more inclined to respect your view.
Adam E gave it a1:
So bad it's good, then bad, then good, then finally bad. A bunch of immature jokes that revert to repetitive toilet/sex jokes rather than actual spoof.
Reece S. gave it a3:
Funny if you're a 2 year old.
Peter J. gave it a5:
Eh, I've seen worse. Did anyone actually expect any better than a 5? Seriously. I got what I expected. I few predictable lewd laughs. Nothing more.
Suraj N gave it a10:
It was a great movie that had me in stitches.
