 Director :
David Zucker
Starring : Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Andre Benjamin
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The plot of Scary Movie 4
Rumor has it Scary Movie 5 is ready for the green light, as soon as SM4's opening weekend receipts are counted. With a crowd-friendly PG-13 rating and the team of director Zucker, writer Craig Mazan, and producer Robert Weiss in place, we're expecting a major triumph. And if a fifth installment is inevitable, it's not like they will hurt for material over the next year or two; just scan our list of summer movies and you could write 50 pages of jokes in an hour. We just have one question: How will Brenda die this time?
Scary Movie 4 Movie Review
Review by DENNIS HARVEY:
The even numbers don't favor the "Scary Movie""Scary Movie" franchise. Inspiration ran dry for the Wayans Brothers in No. 2; now successors David ZuckerDavid Zucker & Co suffer gag fatigue following up their moderately improving efforts on the third installment. "Scary Movie 4" finds horror parody overshadowed by ho-hum groin blows, C-list celebrity cameos, slapstick child abuse, soon-to-be-forgotten hip-hop personalities, plus scatalogical and gay jokes; real laughs are few. Nonetheless, hardtophardtop and ancillary coinage should be robust, with the horror genre's continued high popularity clinching pic's pre-sold lowbrow appeal.After briefly getting Dr. Phil and Shaquille O'Neal into "Saw I's" central predicament, then bringing back Charlie SheenCharlie Sheen from "Scary 3" for a Viagra-impaired suicide, series star Anna FarisAnna Faris as dumb blonde Cindy Campbell gets a job as nursemaid to an infirm elderly woman (Cloris Leachman). Latter's house is haunted by a malevolent ghost child a la "The Grudge." But before she can dig too deeply into that mystery, Cindy gets distracted by the handsome neighbor next door, divorced and negligent working-class dad Tom Ryan (Craig BierkoCraig Bierko). Then aliens attack, and Tom flees with the kids he's semi-estranged from a la "War of the Worlds"..more.
Review By Lesley Chow:
Having director David Zucker (The Naked Gun) take on the latest Scary Movies has made the franchise slightly more watchable. By now, the hapless style of humour is old school: the inner groan is part of the joke, so any kind of sloppiness is hard to fault. Even so, this series of action spoofs is difficult to watch. Generally, the better scenes tend to involve a straight-faced, blundering figure (such as Leslie Nielsen); the worst feature actors like Regina Hall, who insist on responding to the comedy with smirks, or uncomprehending frowns.However, the film benefits from having that affable big goof, Craig Bierko, alongside the younger actors. While he doesn't have quite the same level of skill, Bierko reminds me of Brendan Fraser: a classically trained theatre actor who moved to Hollywood, and now plays a big lunk breaking things (Fraser was at his best putting his fist through a whole cake in Monkeybone.) Bierko's brawn is matched by his amiability, and he often seems like an older cousin roped into children's games, who ends up rather liking them.I was interested by the way the political skits were played. For instance, when the film sends up George W Bush hearing about the Twin Towers attacks, this incident is treated on the same level as any other: as if it was just a ubiquitous ad, or Tom Cruise jumping on a couch. |
