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Scary Movie [2000]
from Hollywood Pictures Home Video
starring Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans, Carmen Electra, Dave Sheridan
directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans

Features:

• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

In 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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Superb spoofing Scream
  A group of teenagers are targeted by a serial killer exactly one year after they ran over a man.
  In 1996 Scream was a film that reinstated the slasher horror genre and Keenan Ivory Wayans' spoof is a true and funny testament to that horror classic.
  Modern spoofs often contain slapstick humour, stereotypes and a fairly predictable plot. This is evident with this 2000 hit and is pure silly entertainment that you can't help but love and laugh along with despite the conventional approach.
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• the best of the 4 scary movies
  This is the best of the 4 scary movies and it is laced throughout with good jokes and wacky characters and clever insights into the genuinely frightening films of recent years.Scary movie 4 has better special effects but this, the original scary movie,shows how much better a film can be with a good script overwhelming the special effects.

• Frightfuly funny
  Ok I think this one is the best out of the four. I have orderd it but it will not come because of the postal strike atm. Funny, Dirty and all the micky takes trown in. Mainly takes the mick of Scream a horror which has a person in a hooded cloak and mask going around killing people although I have never seen Scream this is what it is like.

• SCARY MOVIE, LEGEND!!!
  The beginning of the endless franchise of perhaps the most hilarious comedy spoof movie of are generation. The films comedy is practicially infectious involving films that were considered decent intil they were recodnised in this film and unbelievablly used in comedy and hilairity. The characters in this film are mostly unknown and unrecognised, which surpriseinglly makes them better to relate to, I cant describe the unbelievable comedy this film produces so just buy it...
  Scary Movie, LEGEND!!!

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