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Movie Review for Scary Movie 2
Movie Review for
Scary Movie 2
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Scary Movie 2 | | |
| Also known as: | 7, Scary Movie II |
73 Reviews total.
Release date: 7/4/2001
Run length: 82 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Suspense/Horror
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Thriller
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Sequel
Summary:
A follow-up spoof that picks up from where the original satire left off, taking aim at supernatural thrillers such as "The Exorcist" and "Stigmata" among others. This time around, Shorty, Ray, Cindy and Brenda are tricked by their professor into visiting a haunted house as part of a school project.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
of 3BlackChicks Review (7/0)
The scary part is that a sequel was made.
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (7/0)
The movie plays just like the rush job it is.
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
The proceedings mainly revolve around sexual and bathroom humour, and – depending on your tastes ...
By
Steve Murray
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (7/0)
More boos-and-body-fluid yucks from the Wayans brothers.
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
The whole thing reeks of sequelitis, with an emphasis on the rude and crude.
By
Jason Korsner
of BBC (7/0)
If you haven't seen the target film, not only is it not funny, it becomes totally pointless.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Tim Cogshell
of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
A truly awful movie -- at least twice as bad as the original.
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (7/0)
It should be said that Scary Movie fails on most of its essential levels, and therefore, is only ...
By
Dave Kehr
of Citysearch (7/0)
Watching this sad parade of scatological jokes is a humanity-robbing experience.
By
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
of CNN.com (7/0)
This isn't a movie -- it's a vaudeville sketch aimed at the lowest common denominator.
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
I laughed enough to qualify the film as a solid bargain matinee.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/0)
So unamusing its chief benefit lies in making us appreciate the movies being parodied.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Steven Rosen
of Denver Post (7/0)
Because there is little scene-by-scene coherence, the story becomes little more than the sum of i...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
Even fans of the original may find their patience tested.
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (7/0)
...it does have one redeeming attribute: brevity.
By
Scott Weinberg
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
More of the same...only less funny.
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
There are seven writers credited for Scary Movie 2. That's approximately two writers per laugh.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Eugene Novikov
of Film Blather (7/0)
Yes, there are laughs, but they're sporadic, with a lot of the jokes being regurgitated from the ...
By
Eric Monder
of Film Journal International (7/0)
Lacks the humor, invention and auto-critique of the first film.
By
Blake French
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
There's a fine line between funny and just plain sick; this movie goes way beyond that line.
By
Donald Munro
of Fresno Bee (7/0)
This is the most damning criticism that could ever be leveled against a film such as this -- I wa...
By
Rick Groen
of Globe and Mail (7/0)
The picture wastes barely a second heading straight into the toilet.
By
David Hunter
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
Well-made and directed with finesse by old pro Keenen Ivory Wayans.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Eric Harrison
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
It shows no particular insight into the movies or cultural phenomena being mocked.
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (7/0)
Never has a movie franchise fallen so far so fast.
By
JoBlo
of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (7/0)
The only horror in this film is its lame-ass script!
By
Alex Sandell
of Juicy Cerebellum (7/0)
Scary Movie 2 is a simple rehash of the original, wrapped up in all the same mistakes, and misfir...
By
Kevin Thomas
of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
The problem is that Wayans and his raft of writers, including his brothers Marlon and Shawn, who ...
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
The creators of Scary Movie 2 have forgotten one crucial fact about the horror genre--for every S...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Jackie Loohauis
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
This film doesn't have the overall hilarity of the first.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
What we have is a lot of fake and lazy attempts at humor.
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (4/3)
We can only pray that this time around, the box office will be poor enough to discourage a Scary ...
By
Mark Ramsey
of MovieJuice! (7/0)
I liked the first Scary Movie, but this spooky rush job is a hobgob blob.
By
Jorge Avila Andrade
of Moviola (7/0)
Filme producto de la excesiva comercialización que tuvo su predecesor
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
That the first film's primary target/model was Scream and that this one's is The Haunting says ev...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Cody Clark
of Mr. Showbiz (7/0)
The gags are fresh (so to speak), but the tone and execution are oh-so-exactly the same -- as McS...
By
Jan Stuart
of Newsday (7/0)
Gone is the surprise, the laughter of disbelief that made Scary Movie such a vacation from civili...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
Dull, obvious and unremittingly vulgar.
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
Since the first film, which came out only last year, exhausted the supply of Scream-I Know What Y...
By
Jay Stone
of Ottawa Citizen (7/0)
What exactly is being satirized when a priest has diarrhea?
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (7/0)
Without the relatively tight focus of Scream movies to draw upon, Scary Movie 2 is scattered and ...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Steven Rea
of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
Boring, and decidedly misogynistic.
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
Has a bigger budget and bigger stars, but it's not nearly as funny.
By
James Kendrick
of Q Network Film Desk (7/0)
fast-paced, sloppy, and pretty dumb, but it's over quickly
By
Tor Thorsen
of Reel.com (7/0)
Like its predecessor, it's as exuberant as it is puerile, oozing a cheeky energy that will make y...
By
Laura Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
just goes through the motions of parodying one movie after another without any
apparent stab at ...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
Aside from a few genuinely funny gags, this motion picture represents an 80-minute exercise into ...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (7/0)
Watching Scary Movie 2 is like Chinese water torture -- you start dreading the next drip long bef...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
Stupid, disgusting and inept is a deadly combination that plunges this sequel into the depths of ...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
[The Wayans] are starting to suffer the malaise of overload that finally junked the films of Mel ...
By
Jim Judy
of Screen It! (7/0)
It's just unfortunate that so much of it keeps beating a dead comedy horse from time to time.
By
Paula Nechak
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
Is pretty thin and uninspired outside of one or two modestly clever gags.
By
John Zebrowski
of Seattle Times (7/0)
Some will find this funny. Some people laugh themselves silly flushing the toilet over and over.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
An insufferable hodgepodge of phallic and fecal humor.
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
An almost constant laugh riot of extreme gross-out humor and surprisingly limber lampoonery.
By
Tony Toscano
of Talking Pictures (U.S.) (7/0)
Nothing about this film is likeable or entertaining.
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
Choppily edited and obviously rushed into theaters to make a quick, tidy profit.
By
Stephen Miller
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
Does a satisfying hatchet job on the spooky ... world of supernatural pictures.
By
Mike Clark
of USA Today (7/0)
If you took out all the jokes about bodily fluids, the movie could run five minutes instead of 83...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Michael O'Sullivan
of Washington Post (7/0)
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing.
By
Stephen Hunter
of Washington Post (7/0)
A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural.
By
Daniel M. Kimmel
of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (7/0)
Perhaps if you send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope they'll tell us why this was thought ...
By
Michael Szymanski
of Zap2it.com (7/0)
the opening 15 minutes was absolutely gut-wretchingly hysterical. I laughed more at this second f...
By
Robert K. Elder
of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
Wanders from joke to joke with not enough narrative -- or blood -- to make it all stick together.
By
Dave White
of IFilm (6/1) No reference
Yes, it's pretty funny. No, it's not as funny as the first one.
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Louis B. Hobson
of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
The film's genuine groaners and howlers are few and far between.
By
Steve Tilley
of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
Basically it's just an excuse to set up an uneven stream of sex jokes and toilet humour and movie...
By
David Kronke
of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
The Wayans family certainly has comic smarts, but they're just slumming it here.
By
Matt Easterbrook
of Matt's Movie Reviews (3/4) No reference
"worth a rental"
By
Cameron Meier
of Orlando Weekly (3/4) No reference
To get any enjoyment out of the original, you had to leave your brains at home. With the sequel, ...
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (3/4) No reference
This outing doesn't seem to understand that any attempt to parody a parody tends to negate any po...
Reviews of Scary Movie 2
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) Not Reachable
Even the funniest 40 percent of Scary has that not-so-fresh feeling.
Movie Distributors
Dimension Films Production Companies
Brad Grey Pictures
Mosaic Media Group
Dimension Films
Wayans Brothers Entertainment Movie Studios
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