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Scary Movie 4
The Weinstein Company
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Horror
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Craig Mazin (also story)
Jim Abrahams
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| DIRECTED BY: |
David Zucker
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 15, 2006
Theatrical: April 14, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
83 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...
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
About five times as funny as "Scary Movie 3."

70
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.

67
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.

67
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.

63
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.

63
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.

58
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.

50
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?

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

40
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.

40
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.

40
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.

30
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Isn't it amazing to see just how low some people will stoop if you pay them enough?

30
Slate
Ben Wasserstein
Jokes from Scary Movie 3 are recycled ad nauseam.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.

25
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.

20
Empire
Kim Newman
Worse than Scary Movies 1 through 3… And they were terrible.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
So lazy it's downright boring, something not even a naked Leslie Nielson (!) can salvage.


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