Scary Movie 2 Review
by Jerry Saravia (faust668 AT aol DOT com)February 25th, 2002
SCARY MOVIE 2 (2001)
Reviewed by Jerry Saravia
February 24th, 2001
RATING: One star
No Mercy. No Shame. No Sequel. Well, I felt shameful watching it and it was as merciless an assault on the senses as "Requiem For A Dream" was (how ironic that both movies star Marlon Wayans). Is Miramax so eager for the easy buck that they will forge the money to produce a sequel so cheaply and quickly to diminishing returns? How can Miramax see no fault in including endless bodily fluid jokes without censoring any yet be compelled to cut the violence in Martin Scorsese's long-awaited "Gangs of New York"? Okay, back to the movie.
"Scary Movie 2" is the sequel to 2000's inexplicable hit "Scary Movie," a movie that did not deserve a sequel. Someone with far more imagination and inspiration than director Keenan Ivory Wayans should have taken a shot at all those slasher movies that were rejuvenated by 1996's "Scream." The irony was that "Scream" managed to do that already and Mr. Wayans knew it. Instead, he opted for endless sexual jokes and puns with such alarming crudity that I lost all sense I was watching a slasher film parody. "Scary Movie 2" offers more of the same in even more crude taste. I left the movie with a sour taste in my mouth, and hardly ever laughed as a result.
This time, the characters from the last film are college students invited to some haunted mansion by a devilishly witty professor (Tim Curry, always a pleasure). The mansion is haunted by extremely horny spirits so of course this is an excuse for more bodily fluid jokes. Some are more crass than others and almost all are not funny. There is one exception. Kathleen Robertson plays one student with plenty of cleavage who uses it "Erin Brockovich"-style to get keys from a wheelchaired-nerd to the mansion to escape. It is funny until it ends with a masturbatory joke that ruins it.
"Scary Movie 2" spoofs the awful remake of "The Haunting", "Hannibal," "Charlie's Angels" and so many more. The best scene involves a very funny poke at the oft-imitated "The Exorcist," and it casts James Woods as an exorcist. The jokes get repetitive and involve flatulence and vomiting but it has better gags than the rest of the movie. What a shame it is at the beginning.
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