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Scary Movie 4
The Weinstein Company


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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
WRITTEN BY:	Craig Mazin (also story) Jim Abrahams
DIRECTED BY:	David Zucker
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 15, 2006 Theatrical: April 14, 2006
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...

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

About five times as funny as "Scary Movie 3."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart

Isn't it amazing to see just how low some people will stoop if you pay them enough?

Slate Ben Wasserstein

Jokes from Scary Movie 3 are recycled ad nauseam.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.

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.

Empire Kim Newman

Worse than Scary Movies 1 through 3… And they were terrible.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

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

The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 76 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

John D gave it a10:
With Scary Movie 4, director David Zucker and screenwriters Jim Abrahams and Craig Mazin (let's call the trio: "ZAM") do more than just spoof recent scary movies. ZAM's gags, puns, and parodies bring out the philosophical confusions at the heart of contemporary responses to politics and art. In other words, ZAM's "bad taste" exposes the hegemony of "good taste."

Jonah M. gave it a6:
If this is the first Scary Movie you ever see, you'll find it hilarious. Otherwise, the recycled feel of all the jokes will totally get to you. It just feels so much like Scary Movie 1, 2, and 3.

Elie N. gave it a9:
One of the most funny movie EVER (after scary movie 3) !!! If you relax and stop worrying about the plot you'll find it hailarious because of it's stupidity!

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Scary Movie 4
The Weinstein Company