Now then horror fans you've seen me review alot of horror movies but you've never seen me review a parody horror movie before. Well that ends now as I only have one of those in my DVD collection and trust me when I tell you it was pretty freaking deep in my DVD collection and honestly I forgot that I even had this movie in the first place and so then horror fans here is my review of "Scary Movie 2" enjoy.
The plot of the movie is one year after the events of the first film Cindy , Brenda , Shorty and Ray find themselves in college and for a class assignment they and several over students , there professor and his assistant go to haunted house and must survive when they realise the house has a poltergeist. I honesty found the plot to be rather enjoyable to me the story is just the right amount of stupid which for a parody movie is always a good thing.
Returning from the previous film are franchise stars Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks also returning is franchise co-creators / co-writers and co-executive producers all for this film by the way Marlon Wayans as Shorty Meeks and Shawn Wayans as Ray Wilkins. Joining them are Christopher Masterson as Buddy Sanderson , Kathleen Robertson as Theo , the best part of the live action Alvin And The Chipmunks films David Cross as Dwight Hartman , James Woods as Father McFeely , the best part of any or TV show he's in Tim Curry as Professor Oldman , Tori Spelling as Alex Monday and Chris Elliott as Hanson.
Now then for me the most important thing when judging a comedy is do the actors give a funny performance. Which yeah alot of the actors in this film do and given that they got actually funny people to write the script and have a cast that we know can get us to laugh and who know how to make us laugh that really shouldn't come as surprise to anyone and it's those funny performances that really carry the film in my opinion.
Now this film is the last film that had The Wayans Brothers both Shawn and Marlon as well as there brother films director and other creator Keenen Ivory Wayans. Judging from the fact that i've seen at least one of the later sequels I can safely say that if a sixth film was to be produced then the studio would need to get these guys back because they get this franchise perfectly and they now what the best joke is in any scene of the film.
I honestly do feel that this family is perfect for the Scary Movie franchise because not only do they know how to make us laugh. They also know that the joke isn't what's being parodied it's what's being said or what's happening that's the funny part and that's something that alot of parody films just don't understand they seem to think that whatever they are spoofing is what's funny while at the same time not writing any jokes.
I have to say that out of the new characters I honestly liked Chris Elliott's Hanson simply due to the fact that the character was so out there and pretty funny. Which is something that alot of the newer characters just weren't at least for me don't get me wrong the new characters were acted well enough but very few of them could get me laughing which is something Hanson did at least once in every scene he was in.
Unlike the first film which poked fun at the slasher genre the most famous parody of cause being the then recently released film Scream. This film pokes fun at the supernatural genre of horror films which I honestly thought was a very interesting thing to d since it would have been very easy for them to poke fun at slasher sequels and just go nuts with that but the fact that they took an a different sub genre of horror films I thought was a brave move to make.
This film is actually alot shorter then what it really should have been since it's just under eighty minuets long. Which for me is a huge issues since it means that things like the story and the characters can't be developed as fully as they can be since the film has to pack in all of these jokes and still tell a decent story as such I feel that this film really should have been at least an hours and a half maybe even an hour and forty minuets just so they can develop the characters and the story alot better which is something that they can't do with the very freaking short running time that they have.
Now then this is a comedy and so that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the film itself. Which I feel is the film's aspect since the film is honestly really funny and like I said what makes this film funny isn't the fact that there spoofing something popular and that's the joke it's the fact that they have funny things going on when making that parody and that to me makes a huge difference since it makes the first two Scary Movie films actually good parody movies instead of movies that are just cashing in on whatever's popular at the time of production.
Overall this film is easily the best out of the Scary Movie sequels simply due to the fact that it's actually trying to be funny. I'm not going to lie and say that this film is perfect because honestly that would be freaking stupid and as you can see by the fact that I listed some issues with the film I found there to be quite alot of issues all of which needed to be fixed but weren't as such this film gets a 7 out of 10 from this horror fan.
All images used in this review were gathered from either the official Scary Movie fandom wiki page or Google Images. I honestly cannot recommend either website for high definition images for this film which I kind of expected would be the fact since this film came out in 2001 and so to expect any high definition images would be insane and so we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
