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Scary Movie

2000

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth ...

5.2

111,273

Comedy. Horror A group of teenagers including Cindy Campbell and Bobby Prinze, accidentally hit a man when driving, and dispose of the body, but now they are being stalked by a very recognisable masked killer. The victim count increases, whilst Cindy must survive the carnage that she has seen in so many films before.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"To get your money's worth, you need to be familiar with the various teenage horror franchises, and if you are, 'Scary Movie' delivers the goods.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Dinning Empire	"You will laugh, even if you feel slightly ashamed doing so (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[It] proves to be the kind of film that will shock the faint-of-heart and leave just about everyone else laughing until tears run down their cheeks (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The first 20 minutes or so of the Wayans brothers' Scary Movie are sublimely enjoyable (...) After that the gag-rate plummets, and it's a long haul to the credits. Scary Movie doesn't quite work"	NEU
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"While undeniably silly and violent in a cartoon-like manner, is by and large a hilarious skewering of the clichés of teen pix"	POS
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"These gags are hardly the height of inspiration, but it could be that people laugh at them because they're not as pathetic as a character having a penis jabbed through his head (...) You also get to see that, in case you were wondering."	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"The first 10 minutes are its funniest, most inventive and best crafted. The Wayanses seemed to have stopped worrying about the quality of their work from that point on."	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Like most gag-driven farces, it's a hit or miss affair. If you're amused by jokes involving male genitals, female pubic hair, flatulence and dismemberment, it should be a big hit"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"It's scary that it took six people to write a movie this bad."	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"Practically guaranteed to make you laugh until you're ashamed of yourself."	POS

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