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NovaHunter
Mar 13, 2004

Jack Bauer is my hero.
Directed by: David Zucker
Starring: Anna Faris, Craig Bierko, Regina Hall

Three of my friends and I had been planning to see Scary Movie 4 for the past week. The previews looked good, the reports I had been readin sounded good, and it seemed as though we were in for a treat. Thankfully, we were not disappointed.

First off, let me clear a few things up. This movie, while leaps and bounds better than Scary Movie 3, is still no Airplane! or Top Secret. Those two movies will forever remain Zucker's greatest. The truth is, this movie never comes close to the borders that those movies crossed in relation to race, sex, etc. I'm not saying the movie isn't entertaining, because it sure as hell is. It just isn't the classic that those two are.

Scary Movie 4 mainly spoofs The Grudge and War of the Worlds, but other movies make their appearances, such as The Village and Saw. The sections of the movie relating to The Grudge seemed to be lacking to me, whereas anything dealing with War of the Worlds was absolutely hilarious. There are tons of cameos in the movie, which I won't get into here, but many are quite funny.

This movie was good entertainment if you can manage to turn your brain off and embrace the pure stupidity of it all. If you aren't a fan of stupid comedy, don't bother to see it. If you are, on the other hand, get out there and watch it. There were times where it seemed the movie was dragging, but the best jokes are well worth it. There were many times where everyone in the audience was screaming with laughter.

Go out and have fun with this movie.

RATING: 4

PROS: Much better than Scary Movie 3, moments of pure comedic genius.
CONS: Still not on par with Scary Movie 1 or 2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://imdb.com/title/tt0362120/

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Pyramid_head
Nov 11, 2004
Quite honestly the references to charlie sheen's personal life combined with the stair scene from the grudge made this movie a solid 4 for me

good clean stupid fun

I couldn't believe how they managed to get that shot at brokeback in in time for the release.

Nickolai
Jan 2, 2006
WEARS A WIG
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Nickolai fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Dec 30, 2006

GenoCanSing
Mar 2, 2004

Without a doubt, the funniest and most clever movie of the four. Every scene with Leslie Nielson was absolutely hilarious, and the parodies were a lot better done.

The "UN" scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and was totally worth it.


"The duck DIES?! THATS HORRIBLE!"

Vernacular
Nov 29, 2004
There were a few funny lines but for the most part it was just people getting hit by things. The War of the Worlds and Saw parody material was pretty funny but everything else was awful.

2/5

edit: ENJOY YOUR PURPLE NURPLE

Vernacular fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Apr 19, 2006

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Leslie Nielson's scenes really helped the movie. I enjoyed it as stupid fun, but probably wouldn't watch it again. I agree with Vernacular; too many jokes were just characters being hit by things, which was getting old very fast. I couldn't stop laughing at the U.N. scene though, and that was really the only scene that felt like something straight out of Naked Gun or Airplane!

Just don't go in expecting more than stupid laughs, and the clever bits will really take you by surprise. Most of the audience wasn't laughing at the subtle jokes but were bursting out in laughter every time the daughter got hit by something.

3.5/5

Toolband
May 28, 2003

Year of the Tiger....probably not but hey we started 2-0
like the last two posts, nothing great but it's a decent one time watch. The first 20 minutes felt extremly long but then the movie picked up. Way too much hitting your head on stuff jokes. They did it in the last movie to.

3/5

Nairbo
Jan 2, 2005
The only redeeming quality about the movie was Leslie Nielson, and I'm not even really big on Leslie Nielson. Groin shots, head mashes and Brokeback Mountain jokes might have been funny for a while but this movie re-uses a lot of old jokes that just aren't funny anymore. The Shaq and Dr. Phil cameos were extremely cheesy and I felt bored 5 minutes in due to them, only staying because I was with friends. I didn't expect much going into this and I got even less than I expected. Absolutely terrible movie which I didn't find myself laughing at more than twice.

1/5

pigdog
Apr 23, 2004

by Smythe
This movie is really terrible, although not as terrible as SM2. It's just a bunch of loosely connected recreations of scenes from popular movies, with someone bumping their head, getting hit in the crotch, something involving boners or body fluids, or or someone saying "peepee" or "vagina". Oh the hilarity. A few of the jokes were smile-worthy, but the vast majority of humor was just lame.

What's really neutering all the Zuckerish getting-hit-in-the-nuts humor is that there are no characters in this movie. Even Anna Faris goes from "oh wow I'm Sarah Michelle Geller in Grudge, or wait now I'm in Saw, oh wait it's The Village".. but nobody in the movie has any drat personality, and it's not like the movie has any coherent plot while at it. Say what you will about the original Scary Movie, but it actually did have characters and interactions between them that were humorous.

1.5/5

Fino Martini
Jan 24, 2006

The only redeeming quality about the movie was Leslie Nielson, and I'm not even really big on Leslie Nielson. Groin shots, head mashes and Brokeback Mountain jokes might have been funny for a while but this movie re-uses a lot of old jokes that just aren't funny anymore. The Shaq and Dr. Phil cameos were extremely cheesy and I felt bored 5 minutes in due to them, only staying because I was with friends. I didn't expect much going into this and I got even less than I expected. Absolutely terrible movie which I didn't find myself laughing at more than twice.

I'd have to agree with this review the most. I came into the movie with impossibly low expectations and left dissapointed. I stayed simply because I was with a group of friends and was looking to be social. Honestly I have no idea how anyone could rate this movie any higher than 1/5, if even that.

To even use the word clever in describing this movie is mind blowing. The jokes used in this movie were tired as of atleast five years ago. The fact that anyone could find a movie where they make fun of the japanese language by saying Kikkoman, Mitsubishi and Toyota is funny is beyond me.

All in all this was easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I didn't laugh once, and that's not because I didn't "understand" the type of comedy the movie was, it was simply because it was tired and humorless. The only age group that could justify laughing at this movie is elementary school kids.

0/5

Bob Mundon
Dec 1, 2003
Your Friendly Neighborhood Gun Nut
While I agree its still not Airplane, or Top Secret, its still a really hilarious movie with tons of laughs. And I'm pretty confident I have never laughed as hard as I did in the Million Dollar Baby knockoff, that was the first time I have laughed so hard it made me cry.

4/5


Actually, just typing this is making me laugh more, bump that up to a 4.5/5.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

I went into this knowing it was going to be a lovely movie, and it managed to top my expectations and go even shittier. I thought it might have just been me because I grew out of most of that style of humor, but most of the audience consisted of teenagers and frat boys, and they didnt laugh either. I hope this is the last scary movie, because its definitely the least funny 'comedy' Ive seen.

I did laugh at the 'men riding dragons throwing wolves at maggots' line though, I laughed until I cried. It didnt save the movie for me though.

1/5

The Croc
Dec 19, 2004

A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird!

OH YEAH!



I went into this movie expecting mayby few laughs and that's what was delievered. Still like the 3rd one the best but this had 4 scenes that had me and everyone else laughing.

The shaq opening wasn't too hot the next scene involving he viagra and the cat got the first laugh and set up the film.

Slowed down after that altough picked up once they had the scene with the monekys at the docks. Next real moment was the Brokeback mountain scene just for the fact they were singing "Hello" by Lionel Richie, totally over the top.

The Million Dollar baby scene was the scene of the film I laughed until I cried it was so ludicrious the call back too it later with Don King was funny as well "Only in America!"

Ended very suddenly also the village part was lacking the Carmen Electra thing was just hmm...

Ending appeared so quickly also they overplayed the person getting hit by stuff gags.

Overall it wasn't a bad film a few laughs which is all you can ask for.

scrooger
Feb 26, 2006
I absolutely hated Scary Movie 2 and 3. Bother of those movies had very little more than bad slapstick. Going into Scary Movie 4, I had the lowest of expectations. Basically I was going to see Leslie Nielson. I got what I wanted, but I also got a lot more.

This movie was the best of the four, although I admit I haven't seen the first movie in a long time. The UN scene had me in stitches as well as the War of the Worlds house scene where Tom Ryan is singing to his daughter. Lot's of really bad slapstick jokes with some actually funny lines that reminded me of old Leslie Nielson movies, "It's no more of a war than there's a war between men and maggots or dragons and wolves or men riding dragons throwing wolves at maggots.""I heard that the Japs killed a few of em over in Kikoman." "Kikoman, thats a soy sauce." "Yah, low sodium"

Go and see it with some friends, this is the closest we've had to a Naked Gun. 4/5

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World
Very mediocre comedy. Most of the jokes fall flat and/or run on for far too long. Too much bad/predictable/retarded slapstick. I like the old Zucker movies (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun) as much as the next guy, and this just sucked.

Curiously, the movie LOOKED very good and had surprisingly good special effects and sound.

2/5 for a few mildly amusing parts in a vast sea of dullness.

Clown Meadows
Jul 13, 2003

YARRRR! Where be the gray matter up in this piece, son?
Wow I couldn't believe that I was actually disappointed with this. I loved the first three movies, unlike most people. I usually judge movies like the Scary Movie series by how often I can re-watch them. The first three, I could watch over and over from start to finish and not get bored. With this however, it just seemed like the funniest jokes were few and far between, and weren't even that funny anyway. I'd still watch Scary Movie 5 should they make it, but this one just didn't seem to have the magic of its predecessors.

2/5

Tetramin
Apr 1, 2006

I'ma buck you up.
I thought it was pretty funny, I loved the scene where they are in the van, trying to let the other guy in and he keeps re-locking the door, I found this hilarious because the same thing happens to me a few times when getting into somebody's car

I also thought the part where the president says "Here I am at *looks back* un"

In my opinion, 3.5/5

DNQ
Sep 7, 2004

Let me hear you balalaika's ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm!
Date Movie was the worst movie I've ever seen, and I didn't like the other SM I've seen, so my expectations were super-low for this. When will these guys learn fart jokes just aren't that funny? Whether it's a cat on the toilet, or a hot woman, it really makes no difference, seeing someone squirming on a toilet bowl just is not funny. The old being hit in the face / hit in the groin gag is also overdone.

Amusing in places, generally fairly poor though. 2/5

wca
Mar 2, 2004

I'm a world-class assassin, fuckhead. How do you think I found out?
If you watched the commericals on t.v. and the trailers online, you basically saw the whole movie. 1 & 2 are still the best.



1.5/5.0

wca fucked around with this message at 00:36 on May 2, 2006

Gozinbulx
Feb 19, 2004
I just finished watching this movie and I'm going to have to agree with the "not very funny" crowd.

There were only two moments I remember actually laughing outloud. One was when they're in "The Village" and the monsters spot them and suddenly start going "oogabooga booga booga". That got a good chuckle from me.

The part that made me bust up laughing was when Michael Madsen says "This no more a war than a war between men and maggots, or dragons and wolves, or..men riding dragons throwing wolves at maggots..damnit man you understand what im saying?". Then I started laughing hard.

Also I liked leslie nieslen as always, "PFFFFFT The duck dies?? thats horrible!"

2/5

Standing8
Nov 18, 2002
Wake up bitch, you're my new best friend.
I hate to admit it, but I will always have a soft spot for simple physical comedy. People getting hit in the face with a football, guys getting kicked in the nuts, Leslie Nielson being naked infront of the UN. It is all golden to me. I wish that they had done more with the Grudge, as it really deserved the attention, but I was overall apeased with the movie. Ana Ferris does the same great job at being a complete idiot that gets delved into these crazy situations. Overall I found the movie funny, and its a simple solution to see if you should see the movie. If you think stupid poo poo is funny, see the movie, rate it a five. If you think stupid poo poo sucks, rate it a zero. Its a love or hate movie.

Kynetx
Jan 8, 2003


Full of ignorant tribalism. Kinda sad.
I went in with the expectation of low-brow humor and I wasn't disappointed. I wouldn't see this in the theaters in retrospect. Very funny.

4/5

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Malaveldt
Jul 26, 2001
Utterly retarded, it's like it was written by an eight year old.

That being said, I liked it as the dumb fun it was. 3.5/5

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