"The most unreviewable movies are those belonging to the spoof genre."
-Roger Ebert
True words there, my friends, true words indeed. I mean, how the hell do you review a spoof? I think I've only done it one other time in my epinions history, and that was a little over a year ago with Thumb Wars, and even then I said "I really wish there was more to say about parodies. Their lack of plot and depth can really send a review to hell." Heh. I guess great minds think alike :-D (though Ebert knows much less than he thinks he does about politics, being a Michael Moore soldier).
Ah yes, so here we have Scary Movie 3. Its current rating on rottentomatoes.com is 41%. The first movie scored a relatively positive 52%, and the second movie, which even I'll admit was pretty damn disastrous, got an 11%. I didn't get to see ALL of the second movie, because I walked out of the room, ashamed of my father for letting my sister watch that crap.
So yeah, I saw Scary Movie 3 on Saturday night. To be frank, it really wasn't that good. I've seen a number of good spoofs in my life- the first Scary Movie was pretty funny, Not Another Teen Movie is one of my all-time favorites (seriously), Airplane is good, Spaceballs is brilliant, and so on, and so on- but this didn't measure up to those.
Seeing SM3, you notice it has a different feel than the other SM's, and that's because its not made by the Wayans Bros. It's made by the Airplane guy(s) instead. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to the genre-spawning humor that Airplane provides us with, and thus, it just doesn't end up being that great of a spoof.
The plot- if there is one. Uh... some video tape kills you seven days after you watch it (cough *The Ring* cough), and in the meantime, aliens are coming to take over Earth, and a crop circle is implanted on a farmer's... crop thing, and the farmer's son is an aspiring rapper. Some reporter wants to cover all of this stuff, and falls in love with the aspiring rapper. Yeah. Its not all that funny.
I guess, since the plot isn't much, I can move on the actors... Anna Faris, who I've always thought is a fox, ever since seeing The Hot Chick, plays the reporter, and she's... not that funny. Charlie Sheen plays the farmer, and just watching him try to imitate Mel Gibson is funny. Simon Rex plays the Eminem wanna-be, and the scene with him trying to rap like Eminem... isn't that funny. A scene with Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy trying to be "dumb teenagers" and beating the hell out of each other... isn't that funny either. George Carlin is the Architect in a mock-Matrix scene that isn't that funny, because MTV already did it with Will Ferrell (and that was funny). Leslie Nielsen, who I've always liked, isn't that funny when he plays the President of the United States. And when we meet the aliens... yeah, that's pretty funny.
Some of the humor in this movie doesn't work because its too kiddish. I can just imagine being in a theatre full four to eight year olds, and just watching them laugh and laugh when Anna Faris gets hit in the head or bumps into something, or somebody farts, or pees, or falls. Think of the triplets in "My, Myself & Irene." That kind of laughing. And also... I could predict the jokes in this movie more often than I should have been able to. And that's always a bad sign.
With all that, this movie wasn't that good. Worse than the first, but better than the second. It may have been better with an R, but they obviously made it for a PG-13 audience for more cash. Oh well.
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