"What
do you mean it's a haunted house"
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I never saw Scary
Movie because I just thought it would be terrible, so going to
see Scary Movie 2 I was dreading wasting a couple of hours
of my life.
Paul
Sims
In all honesty
the film isn't too bad if you're into this sort of thing. You've
just got to leave your brain outside the cinema before going in.
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| Scary Movie
or Charlie's Angels. |
The crude toilet
humour was more miss than hit, but it's saving grace was some of
the clever nods to some of Hollywood's blockbusters and especially
a few obscure horror movies.
Now I like my
horror movies and thought the recent Canadian release Ginger
Snaps was brilliant. Genuine shocks mixed in with a wicked
sense of black humour.
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| "Uuuugggggggghhhhhhhh
... that's disgusting" |
When Nigel Bell
reviewed Scary Movie
he pointed out that the film was parodying films that were already
themselves a parody of a genre. Films such as Scream and
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The main parodies
for this film are the recent remakes of The Haunting and
The House On Haunted Hill, although along the way the Wayans
brothers poke fun at The Exorcist, Titanic, and Charlie's
Angels too.
Some noticeable
performances go to Chris Elliott as a kind of Riff Raff (from Rocky
Horror Picture Show) type butler called Hanson, with a severely
deformed left hand which all the characters recoil from every time
he produces it to shake.
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| "Let
me give you a hand" |
The on going
'hand' joke culminates over dinner. As Hanson is serving up the
food, he manages to put his fingers and thumb in everyone's food.
Tim Curry as
The Professor seems more to be going through the motions and I feel
he's really better than this.
David Cross
as the wheelchair bound Dwight has the best two scenes of the whole
movie. When looking around the house for his comrades with Theo
(played by a sexy Kathleen Robertson) he says "You look round
down here, I'll take a look upstairs". With that he launches
himself from his wheelchair at the stairs and starts struggling,
hauling himself up (unsuccessfully I might add).
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stay here, I'll check upstairs". |
Later on in
the film when he is pushed out of a window by a rather upset poltergeist
he is left hanging there facing certain doom shouting for help.
Suddenly help comes in the form of Hanson the butler. We hear his
southern drawl saying "Here, take my hand", as, yes you
guessed it, he reaches down with his deformed hand making Dwight
recoil and fall off the ledge he's holding on to.
If you didn't
like the first film then I don't think you're going to like this,
so ...
But if like
me you 'guiltily' enjoy a bit of banal humour then go for it.
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Scary
movie is so good becase it is very funny.Why is it an 18 because
the first one was 15.
Kayleigh
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