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Scary Movie
reviewed by Mark Prindle
I didn’t know until it was over that this was a Wayans Brothers movie! Shows you what an out-of-touch fellow Mark Prindle are. Either way, I chuckled a helelelelelelelck of a lot. The jokes are disgusting, perverted, sex-, fart- and poop-oriented, and there are way too many male sexual organs displayed for my tastes, but still — very funny parody of Scream, Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer. In fact, if you haven’t seen those movies, there’s almost no point in seeing this one -- you won’t get the "subtleties" of the parody (like Scream’s mustachioed good-natured policeman being reduced to a retard who poops in his pants and masturbates with a vacuum cleaner).
Some of the jokes, of course, fall flat on my ass. But I like reading Hustler, and a lot of these jokes are straight out of Hustler (race-oriented, homosexuality-oriented, blowjob-oriented, etc etc etc), so it kept me chuckling enough for me to ignore the fact that there were about fifteen different fart jokes in the script. I also enjoyed how they threw in parodies of other pop’lar thing-ma-jiggers (including The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense and a popular commercial of the day) and made fun of black people even though, you know… they ARE black people.
I may be overanalyzing the situation. Quite frankly, it’s a film with a lot of shit jokes and fuck jokes. But no boobs. Like Orgazmo. If this interests you, lick it and stick it! And enjoy your sugar babies!
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Scary Movie
reviewed by Mark's ex-girlfriend
This one’s an absolute delight–a mile-a-minute, sharp parody of a conglomeration of modern movies. And although it starts off making the obvious Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer jokes, it soon expands to poke fun at films outside the whore-horror genre like Reservoir Dogs, American Pie, and even a little mockery of the standard Shakespeare in Love audience.
I’d say that the Wayans brothers are back, and have far exceeded my expectations. They find a common ground between the hysterical harshness of Chris Rock and the 4th-grade level fat jokes of Eddie Murphy. Clever boys, those Wayans. I found my uptight, semi-Republican self laughing a hell of a lot, and pleasantly grossed-out a hell of a lot. Between Cheri Oteri’s perfect performance as the tough reporter, slapstick comedy that’s about a billion times better than anything the Three Stooges ever did, and the surprise appearance of at least 2 penises and a butt plug, this movie’s got almost everything.
Although not as brilliant as the humor found in The Family Guy or The Simpsons, and not as socially valuable as a circa 1981 Hustler magazine, Scary Movie is a summer must-see. Overall rating = 8 Eberts!