title: "Scary Movie 3"
starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Regina Hall, Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson, Camryn Manheim, Marny Eng, Jeremy Piven, Leslie Nielson, Ja Rule, Denise Richards
genre: spoof
When we last left the shaky "Scary Movie" series, the second film had gone from brilliant hilarity to outright stupidity. This third edition of movie mockery is much better - that is, it's a better rip-roaring zip of schlock shock, bathroom humor, and juvenile jokes. This time, the movie satirizes films such as "The Ring," "Signs" and "8 Mile," not to mention a few hidden punches below the belt. Faris stars, like in the previous films, as Cindy, who's a journalist investigating a mysterious videotape that kills people in 7 days. Also in the mix is Sheen as a farmer whose cropfields are invaded by alien beings. Sheen's brother (Rex) is the aspiring rapper; he's a tipsy tounge-in-cheeky version of Eminem. There's Anderson and McCarthy as ditsy blondes, Manheim as a incompetent cop, and Neilson as, appropriately, the president. If anything's gone awry in spoofs these days, it's the formulaic flow of crappy one-liners that aren't worth your $8.00. However, "Scary Movie 3," better than it's sequential predecessors, is refreshingly spastic in sense of the word "satire." Sure, there's innumerable faux pas' like in the first two films (such as losing funniness towards the adequate ending), but for all the miscued dumbness, there's one or two side-splitting moments that make you forget its humble modesty. "Scary Movie 3" is also given the cosmetic makeover from the first two in the series; a new director (David Zucker), new cameos (Denise Richards, Macy Gray), and new film victims to spoof. It's this makeover that revitalizes a violatile importance of these funny films: having fun. grade: B+
look for: Simon Cowell?
cool scenes: Michael Jackson?
MPAA: PG-13
The series:
"Scary Movie": B+ "Scary Movie 2": D+ "Scary Movie 3": B+
out there:
"Lost in Translation": Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansen star as solemn tourists isolated by humanity in Tokyo. Murray is a commercial actor, and Johansen the wife of an ignorant photographer (Giovanni Ribisi). The thing about Sofia Coppola's ("The Virgin Suicides") sophomore picture is its glamoured despair and soulful searching, but what really shows through the melodic melodrama is Murray's Oscar-caliber performance. B+
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre": C+
"Runaway Jury": B
"Out of Time": B+
coming up:
"Alien" (the Halloween rerelease)
"The Human Stain"
"Wonderland"
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