A fine guilty pleasure (Scary Movie (DVD))

Member Name: shaneo632

Product:	Scary Movie (DVD)
Date:	15/09/09 (5 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some great gags

Disadvantages: Too crude for some

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room

Whilst Scary Movie is unassailably crude, crass, and often pretty stupid, I do admire it. It's a lot better than some of the dreadful sequels that followed, and it's also quite clever in a feral sort of way - it lampoons the films with a razor-sharp wit at times, although it's often quite hard to find it under all the scatalogical and crass sight gags.

The film is a smattering of numerous horror films, chiefly Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer - it picks up on the sillier aspects of the films, and mocks them in exaggerated, wholly over the top fashion. It revolves around a killer that resembles the Ghost Face from Scream, but has a slightly different face design, and often gets stoned enough that the facial expression changes.

What makes it worth watching is some of the rather well fleshed out characters. The delight has to be Shorty, a stoner with an afro, who never seems to know where he is, and half the time is completely oblvious of the fact that there's an insane killer on the loose. Shannon Elizabeth plays a beautiful prom queen who is entirely skeptical of the serial killer concept, and simply laughs in the face of death, to the most extreme and ridiculous ends possible.

The rest of the film involves Anna Farris as Cindy, a naive young girl who attempts to fend off the killer and also the sexual urges of her boyfriend Bobby. She's a goofball and frequently exacerbates the problem. Complicating things also is Doofy, a mentally retarded trainee police officer who holds more of the key than one might expect.

I can't lie to you - I laughed, and I laughed a lot. This is the high point of the series - a biting parody masked by incredibly crude toilet humour. It's not high art, doesn't pretend to be, and whilst you'll try to fight it, you'll probably get at least a few solid chuckles out of this film.

Summary: Clever in a very stupid way