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  Scary Movie 2
The first Scary Movie was a send-up mainly of the Scream movies.
Scary Movie 2 (written by Alison Fouse, Greg Grabianski, Dave Polsky, Michael Anthony Snowden, Craig, Sean, and Marlon Wayans, whew!) begins with an amusing Exorcist parody starring James Woods (Any Given Sunday, Recess: School's Out) who came in after Marlon Brando was deemed too sick for the role.
Innocent Cindy (Anna Faris, Scary Movie, Lover's Lane), sexually ambiguous Ray (Sean Wayans, Scary Movie, New Blood), pothead Shorty (Marlon Wayans, Dungeons and Dragons, Requiem For a Dream), and some other stock characters are the unlucky participants in the Professor's experiment.
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  Scary Movie 2 Dead on Arrival
The original Scary Movie was a parody of Scream, which itself is a self-referential piece based on all previous horror films.
Scary Movie 2, however, is a parody of a far more forgettable film, The Haunting (itself a remake of Robert Wise's superior version of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House).
Overall, Scary Movie 2 was an unoriginal and boring pastiche of fellatio follies, pot pranks, and scatological satire.
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 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Scary Movie 2
"Scary Movie 2," while occasionally uproarious (but not occasionally enough), is a wasted opportunity that comes off less as a major motion picture, and more as an endless parade of comedic skits strung together by the thinnest of stories, with no purpose other than to make the studio heads mucho dinero.
Filled with gags involving sex, semen, urine, puke, and farting, "Scary Movie 2," nonetheless, feels tame in comparison to the original, perhaps because the jokes are shameless rehashes of scenes that were already done last year.
"Scary Movie" was shocking in what it could get away with, and what it was willing to show; this follow-up, on the other hand, is predictable and doesn't even attempt to outdo its competitor.
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 Scary Movie (2000)
"Scary Movie" was the working title of Scream (1996/I), the main movie parodied.
True, this film relies a bit much on poddy humor, but at the same time, there is a cleverness in the way all the films being spoofed (and there are many) get twisted together and played with here.
Some of the slapstick and sight gags do fall flat, but the movie is quick paced and the satire is fun.
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 Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Scary Movie 2 definitely pushes whatever shreds of the good-taste envelope that remain.
Scary Movie 2 references movies from almost every genre, ranging from tired kung-fu riffs on blockbuster Charlie's Angels to a killer-penis joke stolen from little-known blaxploitation pic Soul Vengeance.
Such story-sampling may delight name-dropping movie geeks who write film reviews, but most viewers will be scratching their heads, wondering where the spoofery stops and idiocy begins — just before they're sprayed with another shower of steaming goo.
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  TheMovieBoy Review: Scary Movie 2 (2001)
"Scary Movie 2," while occasionally uproarious (but not occasionally enough), is a wasted opportunity that comes off less as a major motion picture, and more as an endless parade of comedic skits strung together by the thinnest of stories, with no purpose other than to make the studio heads mucho dinero.
Bypassing the lampooning of slasher films, "Scary Movie 2" takes direct aim at the supernatural genre, and loosely follows the plotting of 1999's "The Haunting," which was a very bad movie in and of itself.
"Scary Movie" was shocking in what it could get away with, and what it was willing to show; this follow-up, on the other hand, is predictable and doesn't even attempt to outdo its competitor.
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 Review: Scary Movie 2 (2001)
'SCARY MOVIE' was the original title for the SCREAM trilogy, which was originally mapped as a spoof for the horror genre.
SCARY MOVIE and its sequel really cannot be analyzed as far as storyline goes.
SCARY MOVIE 2 follows four of the same 'victimized' teens from the original.
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 Movie-Vault.com :: Over 2000 Reviews and Counting...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scary Movie 2 was much better than the original, but the laughter is cheap, and mostly comes from repulsive sights.
If you were to plot the humor in Scary Movie 2 on a graph, it would look like the success of the internet stocks from a few years ago, to now, although the final minutes were pretty good.
Scary Movie 2 isn't enough to make your stomach hurt, or make you cry, but just a mediocre summer movie for the fans of the first one, and people who like to be grossed out.
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 Scary Movie 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 American comedy/horror/sci-fi sequel to Scary Movie and was followed in 2003 by Scary Movie 3 and in 2006 by Scary Movie 4.
The sequel to Scary Movie begins with a parody of The Exorcist, in which Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out.
The movie was originally NC-17, but ended up being a R after removing a couple of scenes that were in Deleted Scenes of the DVD Version.
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 Scary Movie 2 - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
From the Producers of Scary Movie who promised that there would be "no sequels" -- they put it in writing in their advertising -- comes the inevitable breaking of the promise.
The "survivors" of Scary Movie, Shorty, Ray Cindy and Regina (Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall, now in college, are given a class assignment to spend a weekend in a house on a haunted hill, an abandoned estate where a murder once took place.
To be fair, the opening sequence of Scary Movie 2, which parodies The Exorcist (guest appearances by Andy Richter and James Woods as the priests; Natasha Lyonne as Linda Blair), is relatively funny.
www.crankycritic.com /archive01/scarymovie2.html   (703 words)

  
 Cineclub - Movies: Scary Movie 2
The usage and disorientation of this movie mixture is the greatest and the worst thing about the movie.
And the fact that "Scary Movie 2" copies some scenes from "Scary Movie (1)" is not bad.
Scary Movie 2 is a stupid, badly performed Hollywood movie, that exists only in stolen ideas.
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 Scary Movie 2
I was quite shocked when the opening scene of "Scary Movie 2" had me in stitches (similar to the way the opening in the original was the best part).
One huge problem with "Scary Movie 2" is that it tries to spoof WAY to many things at one time.
Shawn Wayans is the funniest character in the movie, but he grows tired quick as an entire first movie of gay jokes, along with this movie of gay jokes makes the whole thing a little tired.
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 Review: Scary Movie 2 (2001)
In the time honored tradition of it is not broke, don't fix it, the Wayans brothers have followed up their smash hit "Scary Movie" with this summers "Scary Movie 2".
"Scary Movie 2" is not a film for everyone, as it relies on a very ribald style of humor.
In many ways a film like "Scary Movie 2" is a difficult film to review, as it does not have a great plot, acting, or special effects.
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 Scary Movie 2
I wish the Wayans had kept their pledge, after spending an interminable 85 minutes suffering through "Scary Movie 2." If you are a fan of urine, feces and semen jokes, you will probably like this bomb.
The problem with "Scary Movie 2" is it spoofs a movie that, if you saw the original "The Haunting," is really a parody of that classic horror flick.
The opening "Exorcist" parody, before the credits, turns out to be the funniest part of "Scary Movie 2," thanks to an outrageous twist on the Father Merrin character by James Woods.
www.reelingreviews.com /scarymovie2.htm   (687 words)

  
 BMN Review: Scary Movie 2 (2001)
The original "Scary Movie" was a horror movie spoof, ripping on the "Scream" and "Last Summer" movies, from the minds of the Wayans Brothers.
Anyway, "Scary Movie 2" follows many of the characters from the original as they engage in a haunted house spoof, taking on "The Haunting", "Poltergeist", "Amityville Horror" amongst others.
I did laugh a couple times in "Scary Movie 2", but, sadly, it was during jokes that were lifted out of the original.
www.hit-n-run.com /cgi/read_review.cgi?review=53597_wyldfyr   (640 words)

  
 Scary Movie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scary Movie (2000), an American film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, is a comedy-gross-out film spoof that parodies the horror and mystery genres.
Scary Movie 4 was released on April 14, 2006.
Scary Movie was at one point the working title for Scream, which was also released by Dimension Films.
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 SCARY MOVIE 2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Despite jam-packed crowds on the Fourth to see this movie, "Scary 2" is left running behind the bus of the all but dead gross-out genre that has left it in the dust.
With no less than seven credited writers and some ten credited producers, the best "Scary 2" could come up with is this: A house haunted by a poltergeist is the open laboratory for a sexually charged professor (Curry) to run a little experiment on fear to draw out the spirits in the house.
Another hallmark of the last "Scary Movie" was the pop culture and movies it spoofed.
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 MovieFreak.Com - Scary Movie 2 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Now, with Scary Movie 2 all finished and ready for release, most of you will want to know, "is it better than the original?" There are some factors more redeeming in here than in Scary Movie (in terms of several spoofs), but for the most part Scary Movie 2 was not better.
Scary Movie 2 opens from inside the Hell House where a dozen white folks sing along to rap music, engulfing the theater into heaps of laughter.
While Scary Movie spend time introducing its characters (rather well for a spoof of this caliber), the sequel takes everything for granted and throws in several newbies.
www.moviefreak.com /reviews/s/scarymovie2.htm   (1040 words)

  
 BBC - Films - review - Scary Movie 2
Unlike the father of all spoof movies "Airplane" - but like "Scary Movie 2" 's wheelchair-bound mad scientist - this film can't really stand on its own two feet.
It can be funny to see one set of actors doing the same as you've seen another set of actors doing, and even funnier still when there's a wicked twist thrown in to end the sequence, but if you haven't seen the target film, not only is it not funny, it becomes totally pointless.
"Scary Movie 2" is released in UK cinemas on Friday 7th September 2001.
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 Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Scary Movie 2 appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
During some songs, bass response was quite good, and dynamics improved as the movie progressed, but too much of the track appeared constricted, and low-end seemed rather weak for the most part.
When Scary Movie hit DVD in December 2000, I was surprised that it lacked many substantial extras.
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 Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Scary Movie 2 doesn't have much of a plot or, if it did, I missed it.
Other writing credits for Shawn and Marlon include the original Scary Movie, the television show The Wayans Brothers (1995) and the outrageously silly comedy Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood (1996), which hinted at their spoofing talents.
But sometimes we go to the movies to escape our lives for a few hours and all we ask is to be entertained.
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 DVD REVIEW: "SCARY MOVIE 2"
The filmmakers responsible for "Scary Movie 2" should have paid heed to the tortoise and hare philosophy as well.
Like the original "Scary Movie," this film - directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans ("A Low Down Dirty Shame, "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka") and written by a plethora of scribes including Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Greg Grabianski, Dave Polsky, Michael Anthony Snowden and Craig Wayans - is a joke-filled parody of horror films.
Scary Movie 2 is now available for purchase by clicking here.
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 The Popkorn Junkie :: Scary Movie 2
Movie review for the film Scary Movie 2 starring Anna Faris, Tori Spelling, and Shawn and Marlon Wayans.
The tagline for the first movie was "no mercy, no shame, no sequels".
The Scary Movie 2 tagline is "no more mercy, no more shame, no more sequels.
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 Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2 Movie Review
Scary Movie, 2000 - Scary Movie 2 - 2001
Scary Movie is a conglomerate of a number of different films, but specifically the Scream movies.
I did not like part 2 as much as part 1, but, again, there were some really funny parts to 2 that made up for the jigsaw puzzle of a film.
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 Scary Movie 2
While I enjoyed the original Scary Movie for its novelty value, Scary Movie 2 is a really unfunny excuse for the Wayan brothers to vent out their frustrations at the opposite sex in this movie.
Cindy Campbell is now in college, Scream 2 style, and this time around the nefarious Professor Oldman decides to ask Cindy and her friends Shorty, Ray, and Brenda, along with potential new boyfriend Buddy and new friend Alex to a haunted mansion, The Haunting style.
Scary Movie 2 is a painfully unfunny movie that will amuse only those that find extreme scat jokes funny.
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 Scary Movie 2
The first Scary Movie worked so well using the spoof ideas from Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
It was truly a horror spoof movie with some solid laughs.
Scary Movie 2 doesn't follow any sort of formula.
www.horrormoviesthatsuck.com /Movies/Scary_Movie_2/scary_movie_2.htm   (312 words)

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