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Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 2000 / DVD released 02 July, 2001 at Buena Vista / Features of the DVD: PAL / In ... more
Scary Movie (DVD) ... Scary Movie we visit BA Corpse High School, where all the pupils are visibly in their late 20s and a masked madman (or two) is on the loose, slaughtering self-involved, pop-culture-obsessed kids while trying to get to virginal heroine Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris). The gang are still guilt-ridden over their semi-accidental killing of a fisherman last Halloween, while at least one has been driven homicidally mad by the cancellation of the Wayans Brothers television show. An old vaudeville motto has it that you can't kid a kidder, and the makers of this would have done well to remember MAD Magazine didn't run a satire of Airplane!. The obvious flaw in the canny plan to satirise Wes Craven's Scream films is that they were already comedies, playing as many self-referential tricks as anything from the Naked Gun team but with the added bonus of actual scary scenes. The joke about ageing starlets pretending to be high school kids was done in Scream 3, for instance, and Scary Movie keeps sending up scenes that were funnier "straight" and only really gets a good satirical victim when it turns to the somewhat sillier I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his writing-acting brothers Marlon and Shawn show no real interest in the genre they're taking pot-shots at, suggesting that the point here was to lampoon something hot rather than (as in the best spoofs) growing from a mixture of affection and contempt. The only way Scary Movie can get a reaction is going for gross: heads skewered by dildos, slashed-out breast implants, tiny dick gags, a torrential gush of sperm washing the heroine against the ceiling, relentless fag jokes (a DVD-ROM "Gaydar" feature even enumerates these) and a lot of old Cheech and Chong marijuana routines. About one in 10 of the jokes crack a grudging smile, with riffs on recognisable bits from The Matrix and The Usual Suspects, and a nicely nasty irrelevant aside that makes fun of both Titanic and Amistad. The best moment is a "scenes we've always wanted to see" scene in which an obnoxious cinemagoer is murdered by an entire audience for talking on her mobile phone during Shakespeare in Love. On the DVD: the DVD is letterboxed to 2.35:1 and has Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks in English and Italian, with subtitles in English and Italian. Extras are seven brief scenes cut out of the film (none very funny), a matey behind-the-scenes featurette, DVD-ROM features (a useful function plays the film with all the jokes and in-references explained in subtitles) and the theatrical trailer. --Kim Newman

Newest Review: ... of the great horror movies like scream etc. I would rate this as one of the funniest films ive even seen , it sporned the ... more

 ... catchphrase wassuppp which was used by every kid and grown up for the next few years after the movie. its extremely funny wih some great scenes it has a cool cast. its a complete send up of many other movies but it works and laughs are fast and many. even now this film is still very very funny, the scene in the toilet with the glory hole is extreemly funny as is the guy who pretends he's straight just hillarious stuff defiantly worth watching and defiantly worth owning on dvd. dont let the sequels put you off they are...more

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KPN7
Premium Review Scary Movie (DVD): Good film (272 words)
by KPN7 - written on 11.11.07 (Useful, 51 readings)
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What a spoof show this is. This was the first movie in the series and in my eyes it is stil the best. I do not know what it is with films but I feel the first in a series is always the best. When this film first came out it was on the lips of everyone who enjoyed an honest comedy film. The main horror film which this film leans on is scream, which was a popular horror film when it first came out and remains a popular film even today. I myself arent particualrly into films therefore I couldnt tell you who the actors are, however they all work extremely well together and even though the acting is slightly out there it is extremely enjoyable and it works well together. ...

rleigh
Crowned Review Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween (2280 words)
by rleigh - written on 08.11.06 (Very useful, 485 readings)
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(Originally posted on Ciao under my Ciao name RazzaLazza) It's an interesting concept to make a parody of a satire, however with 'Scary Movie' this is exactly what has been done, taking the storyline of 'Scream' and turning it into a comedic spoof. Although 'Scream' is the main film parodied here, they've also lifted plot line development from 'I know What You Did Last Summer', have given the film a 'Matrix' and a 'Blair Witch Project' style sequence, and make reference to 'The Sixth Sense' and 'The Exorcist'. The 'Scary Movie' franchise has obviously been a popular one with each film doing extremely well at the Box Office, and with four already having been ...

3rd+Rock+Satan
Crowned Review Scary Movie (DVD): Scream (1524 words)
by 3rd Rock Satan - written on 22.07.01 (Very useful, 118 readings)
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Scary Movie or ‘Last Summer I Screamed Because Friday the 13th Fell on Halloween’ and ‘Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween’ is the original title of the Scream series. This is series in which Scary Movie spoofs, that along with I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project and even the Budweiser ‘Wassup’ advert gets the Wayans brothers spoofage. Scary Movie follows six ‘teenage’ friends Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Brenda (Regina Hall) Bobby (Jon Abrahams) Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth) Greg (Lochlyn Munro) and Ray (Shawn Wayans). They are obviously played by ...

 
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