shevaunhodge This film is very entertaining. I watched it for the first time when i was very young when it was first came out and many times since. The humor is kind of stupid funny or obvious funny, but it still makes you a laugh out loud. Although, it can be crude in parts of the film. The film is clever because it is making fun of other horror movies and each movie is made fun of and mixed together creating a story line, the story line doesn't always make sense, but this is obviously another way of mickey taking the films that are made fun of throughout this movie. . I think many of the films deserve to be made fun of because I was not a fan of many of the films the mocked , think these included scream and scream 2. the matrix, the blair witch project, and I know what you did last summer. Overall very enjoyable but don't watch if you are easily offended.

The Movie Diorama Taking popular films from the 90s and replicating specific scenes and plots to create a spoof film sounds incredibly lazy. Surprisingly the originality comes from transforming these horror films into comedic sketches that will certainly make the originals less scary. A group of high schoolers have their past come to haunt them as a masked serial killer slashes his way through each one. Borrowing the plot of 'Scream' and entangling it with threads from 'The Usual Suspects' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'. Wayans attempted to include as many film references as possible, and half the fun is identifying them. "Ohhh there's 'The Matrix' 360 freeze frame!", "the classic "I see dead people" line, niceee!" and "Amistad II instead of 'Titanic'? Sure, I'm onboard". Certain imitations were hilarious such as 'The Blair Witch Project' woodland run and the cinema viewing of 'Shakespeare in Love'. It's certainly a good time when with friends, but is it actually a decent film? Well, yes and no. The horrendous overacting is humorous at first but quickly becomes tiresome as Cindy consistently screams in fear and runs away like a headless chicken. For me, a large portion of the slapstick humour and "witty" dialogue were misses. These spoof films rely on you watching the films that it is attempting to mimic, so if you haven't watched any you will not find this funny at all. At the time of this review I haven't seen 'Miss Congeniality' so the entire beauty pageant scene was wasted on me. The script relied heavily on visual comedy which mostly comprised of grotesque uninspired actions such as farting inconveniently. May have been funny in the 70s but not anymore, come on. What this flick does do is introduce us to the character Brenda who, whilst criminally underused in this, is a massive highlight in future sequels. This is, for me, my least favourite of the original trilogy. A solid watch if you are drunk with friends, but unfortunately comes across as unintelligent and unfunny for most of its runtime.

Rickting Scary Movie is probably the first of all these '(Insert here) Movie' spoofs which usually mock a certain genre with a bunch of gags so inept, so pathetically juvenile and so harrowingly unfunny that if they weren't also vulgar and offensive they could have been written by a class of 5 year olds. This is one of the first in the notoriously unsuccessful spoof genre. But, believe it or not, this one is perfectly OK. The jokes are hit and miss, but when they hit they are genuinely funny. The film feels considerably less desperate than many spoofs and is (slightly) less juvenile. It's extremely low and earns its 18 certificate with ease, but the vulgarity isn't always completely mirthless. It is offensive, but manages not to overstep the line. It is admittedly quite funny at times. The reason why my rating isn't higher is because not all of the jokes work, it can be very annoying and leans too heavily on crude jokes. The thing which really irritates me about Scary Movie is its spoofing of Scream, which was itself a parody. This is not the level of The Naked Gun, which is my favourite comedy ever, or Airplane, and does run out of gas before the end but this represents a partially successful parody of horror movies which at the very least is funny sporadically and is miles better than the cinematic wasteland of Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans.6/10

jc-osms We all make mistakes. Mine was to watch this movie. I actually quite like spoof comedy movies, like "Airplane", "Hot Shot", "The Naked Gun" et al, so, thinking I was in for a good laugh, I tuned in. I guess I wasn't properly aware of the difference in the directorial method of James Brooks back in the eighties and the Wayans in the noughties. Maybe if I was also 40 years younger, I might have got a kick out of the shenanigans which unfolded here.Really, this is just a frat-boy's paradise, meaning lots of low humour, vulgar jokes and crude banality. I got the references to contemporary thriller - horror movies, like "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Scream", "Blair Witch Project" and "Sixth Sense" amongst many others, but really just found the humour way too obvious and infantile to connect with.Even in the earlier movies mentioned above, I accept there's some risqué humour, but for every clean, even clever smile-inducing gag, (like when the subjective camera bumps into the lead actress, although they even borrowed that from Mel Brooks) there were twenty- plenty other wince-making, below-the-belt and often just embarrassing so-called jokes. I could go on by saying that the largely unknown cast failed to demonstrate any great originality or distinction in their acting, but to be honest, they're largely secondary to the non-stop barrage of cheap sex-jokes right from the start.Successful enough to spawn a horde of sequel movies, I won't be tuning in for any of them anytime soon. Last one in class, turn off the lights please.