The art of the parody was one that was long thought to be dead and buried thanks to films like Meet The Spartans and oddly enough the last Scary Movie film. Yet with the world of horror being more popular now then its ever been The Wayans Brothers have been handed the key back to the franchise that they started in the first place and well you all knew that I had to check this film the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that does cross alot of lines with the film in question being called simply just "Scary Movie" enjoy.
The plot of this film is twenty six years after the events of the first Cindy and her daughters Sara and Tuesday along with there friends have to team up with Doofy , Brenda , Shorty and Ray to find out who this new killer is and stop them once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Without giving away that much about the films plot you can tell right away just from what film is being spoofed here and it is oddly fitting as the first film also spoofed the first film of that particular franchise as well. This films plot is one that is done really well as it does give you all of things that you want to see in a Scary Movie plot as these films did more often then not just spoof what was popular in horror films at that time which in this case is legacy sequels and to be fair to this film this is something that this films plot does handle really well with the plot not only tipping its hat to the first two films in ways that do feel respectful but also in just being a fun filled plot with the thing that does let his films plot down is the fact that it does feel a little bit on weaker side say what you will about the first films plot but you never really knew where it was going whereas here you do know where its going and that does make the plot of this films feel that little bit more predictable but given just how bad the movie industry is right now maybe that's something that we need with te plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is one of this films co-writers and producers Marlon Wayans as Shorty Meeks and one of this films co-writers and producers Shawn Wayans as Ray Wilkins. Also starring in this film is Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell , Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks , Damon Wayans Jr. as Agent Underwood , Gregg Wayans as Brad Meeks , Kim Wayans as Nurse Ratchett , Benny Zielke as Jess , Cameron Scott Roberts as Jack , Cheri Oteri as Gail Hailstorm , Chris Elliott as Shorthand , Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore and the voice of Ghostface , Heidi Gardner as Agent Berger , Lochlyn Munro as Greg Phillippe , Olivia Rose Keegan as Sara Campbell , Ruby Snowber as Val , Savannah Lee Nassif as Tuesday Campbell and Sydney Park as Dei Meeks.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. This films acting really is just so good with all of this films actors both returning and new really nailing there characters with the new actors really getting just who there characters are meant to be spoofing with them kind of mimicking those performances like what they did back in Scary Movie 1 and with the new actors it really does feel like that they've just got through playing these characters before starting work on this film as they just slip so easily back into those characters with them picking up right where they left of performance wise. With the best actor in this film being Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks as she really does turn in a great performance as this character with her keeping Brenda the exact same way as she was back in the first film only now she's more warmer to Cindy with Regina along with Anna Faris getting alot of really funny lines in this film with Regina's performance being so good that you could mistake her for being the lead character in the film with her having alot of really good chemistry not just with the returning actors but also the new actors as well, her performance in the film is also the one that does feel the most real as we see that Brenda now has twins and we see her struggle to keep them alive in her own Brenda way which is something that does shine through in her performance in this film. With the acting that's in this very film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
When it comes to the films characters this is a very much a film of two halves as while the original characters are still very much there old selves the same thing cannot be said for the films newer characters. As they do feel much feel like the characters that they are meant to be spoofing with there being very little added to them to make them feel like fully formed characters and infact you could make the case that the films new characters don't feel like Scary Movie characters but rather they feel like the characters you would expect to see in films like Epic Movie or Meet The Spartans as they are that dull and lifeless. Whereas with the returning characters they all do feel like they did back in the first film which for a character like Ray is something that is surprising as given that these days you would expect a character like him to be toned down as to not offend anyone here it oddly feels like he's been tuned all the way up and its something that does work as this is a film that does take aim at every one and everything and that's good as that's how a film like this one should be. While Cindy was very much Sidney Prescott in the first film here she is a mixture of 2018 Laurie Strode along with the Grandma character from Final Destination: Bloodlines and Sidney Prescott and that is something that on paper shouldn't work and yet it is something that does oddly work for her character as her character was all about taking on whatever character trope was popular in horror at that time where as Brenda is still just herself in all of the best ways possible and Shorty is now a streamer who literally gets paid for doing nothing which again is perfect for his character and if the makers of this film did put as much thought and effort into there new characters as they did the old ones then we would have some really memorable and funny characters in this film.
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In what is something that could be seen as being a weird move this film not only makes references to the second Scary Movie film but also takes jabs at Scary Movies 3 and 4. This is something that none of the other films have done in the past with each film pretty much taking place in it's separate universe with only a few things carrying over but given that the second film was last time that any one of The Wayans Brothers was involved with the franchise it does make sense that they would tip there hat to that film with even the character of Shorthand being confused for the character of Hansen from that film yet the thing that doesn't make sense being the fact that they take shots at the third and fourth films whilst also ignoring the fifth one. As again this is something that none of the other films have done and yet it is something that does feel like The Wayans Brothers are taking aim at The Weinsteins as they did force them out of the franchise and made the rest of the films without them but by having The Wayans Brothers take aim at those films it does feel a tad bit childish as it wasn't something that was needed but to be fair tho the makers of this film did do the right thig by having Anna Farris be the one to deliver those jabs as you can tell in those films that she is struggling to make them funny where as here in this film it does feel like she's being set free, just to go back to the nod to the second film for a minuet instead of making Shorthand be someone who looks like Hansen they should have made him Hansen as even tho he is in the one scene the character does look a lot like him and he was a fan favorite character from that film so they very easily could have made the characters the same character with Shorthand being a name that he's gone by to avoid detection which would have been a good idea and if they wanted to make it funny you could have it be a disguise that doesn't work with people just calling him Hansen with him saying that that's not his name.
As you might be able to work out from the title this film is spoofing Scream 2022 and with that does come alot of cameos as we get Kenan Thompson as Jermaine Jackson , Jon Abrahams as Bobby Prinze , Teyana Taylor as herself , horror icon Felissa Rose , Anthony Anderson as himself , Carmen Electra as a bartender , Shaquille O'Neal as himself with both Anthony Anderson and Shaquille O'Neal playing two of this films four killers with the other two being Ray and Shorty, the cameos in this film where things that did work as while they do draw attention to themselves alot of the time that is also part of the joke with both Carmen and Teyana making a joke about them both being in the opening scene of a Scary Movie film. With this film mainly spoofing Scream 2022 they do kind of go the obvious route with Bobby by having him be Sara's dad with Sara obviously being the Tara stand in and thankfully they don't go all the way with it as that would mean that they wouldn't be able to have there fun and poke fun at that film and Scream VI with alot of the films cameos essentially being there just to riff on Scream someone more with the only cameo that was disappointing being the Felissa Rose cameo as she only appears standing behind Cindy during the Terrifer 3 mall scene spoof and she never says a single line of dialog which does feel like a waste as if your going to go out of way to get horror royalty in your film for cameo then why not have her poke fun at her mist iconic role Angela Baker as that then would have been somewhat funny to see and it would have given the younger audience that are watching this film a character to go and look up which just that in of itself would have been funny to see there reactions to finding out the twist ending to Sleepaway Camp and yet the makers of this film don't really do anything with her heck at least with all of the other cameos they do make jokes and have them do some funny stuff in the film but with Felissa Rose they don't do anything with her which just feels weird as she is most well known horror actor in this film.
For some reason this film chose to copy Scream 7 by having a bad Ghostface reveal and while that is something that wasn't intended to be funny in that film in this film that is very much the idea. As we do find out that there are four killers in this film with them being Anthony Anderson , Shaquille O'Neal , Ray and Shorty with the film going over the top with it's reveals as we do first find out that it could be Val who is the killer along with Jack which is something that would have been in line with the film that they were meant to be spoofing but then the flip on its head by having it two of them be these people that we haven't seen in the film with the other two being legacy characters. Heck even the killers motives are all meant to be seen as a joke as they are all tired of black people being killed of in horror films not being the main killer with both Shaquille O'Neal and Anthony Anderson being upset that out of all of the characters that they did bring back neither one of them was asked back in the first place which is a very funny and very tongue in cheek idea that it does work and while yes the original films main killer reveal wasn't that impressive either as they didn't take the time to give us clues as to who the main killers where even tho they were repeating alot of line from Scream word for word alot of the time here tho as there not really doing that in this film they could have taken the time the give us some clues as to who the killers are as even tho they quite literally tell us that Jack is a killer with him being named after Jack Quaid from Scream 2022 they still really could have given clues that made us think that there really is someone working with Jack only to then reveal that those clues are actually for the films real killers as that would have been a great way to put a Scary Movie style twist on the killer reveal from that film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty five minuets and forty five seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this franchise as alot of the films did have very similar running times to them and to be fair to this film it really did need that amount of running time just due to the fact that it did have alot of characters to both introduce and reintroduce and it couldn't do that and still tell a good and funny story with a running time that is even ten minuets shorter as something would be lost with the film even having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this film does kind of not use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot which in all fairness was something that it really didn't need to do as it was just copying the plot of Scream 2022 and therefor it really didn't need to have a well developed plot it still would have been nice if the makers of this film did add things to this films plot that would have made it feel more like a film that could stand on its own without the parody aspect which is something that very much is the case with the first film as if you remove the fact that it is copying the plots of both Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer that films plot does still stand up on it's own where as here it does feel like that since that not that much if anything was added to the plot to make it more thought and developed that if you remove the fact that its spoofing Scream 2022 then the the film just falls apart with it being made obvious the makers of this film did care more about the cameos then they did about giving us a more well thought out plot. Much like with the first film this is something that does kind of effect the films characters as well as none of them get any kind of character development which in all fairness is something that is also true for the first film as well but they still could have gone the extra mile to give these new characters especially some form of character development just to help them feel all the more memorable as characters but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film spoofing films like M3GAN , Final Destination: Bloodlines , Michael , Scream 2022, Scream VI , Weapons , Sinner and oddly enough K-Pop: Demon Hunters among many other films but yeah alot of this films parodies do work and while yes granted there not as good as the parodies were in the first Scary Movie film as there you could tell that the makers of that film did have a deep love of horror as whole there is still more effort and more thought in this films parodies then ay of the films that were made by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. With the best joke in the whole entire film being in the third act when all of the main returning characters decide that they've have enough if franchises being ruined by kids and decide to take this franchise back by killing of alot of the remaining kids in this film in a house fire but it doesn't end there as when they think that they've made it out alive with all of there clothes still intact the camera that cuts around to the back of them to reveal that only the front parts of there clothes survive with everything on the back being burned which is a great little twist to add to things and the fact that none of the characters mention anything about it being cold or there being a draft is something that is the cherry on top with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film really did put alot of thought and effort into that one joke alone with the rest of this films jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall whilst the first two films are still the best films in this franchise this film is easily better then movies 3 through 5 as it does have that heart and spirit and that made those first two films stand out in the first place while we have both this film and the new Masters Of The Universe film out this week go and see both films as they are both alot more better then alot of the more modern Hollywood films really are with this film proving that it doesn't matter if you offend people as along as your funny and that is something that really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review then that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.




































