Yes, at times it’s gross, it’s silly and even juvenile but the
new comedy,
”
Scary Movie 3,
”
currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is still pretty
funny.
The one-hour and 30-minute release which spoof’s many of the
more popular movies of the past two years is not going to suit
everyone’s taste.
Yes, at times it’s gross, it’s silly and even juvenile but the new comedy, “Scary Movie 3,” currently playing at Premiere Cinemas, is still pretty funny.
The one-hour and 30-minute release which spoof’s many of the more popular movies of the past two years is not going to suit everyone’s taste.
Director David Zucker, who made his mark as a comic director with zany no-holds-barred movies like “Airplaine!,” “Naked Gun,” “Top Secret!,” and “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” takes over the reigns of the emerging Scary Movie franchise from the multi-talented Wayan brothers and adds his own wacky sense of humor.
Zucker, who was also the CO-producer of “Scary Movie 3,” has already signed on to direct “Scary Movie 4,” which is scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2004.
In the next version, Zucker and the Scary Movie gang will return to spoof super hero movies like “Spider-Man,” “Daredevil” and “The Hulk.”
But before I get too far ahead of myself, let’s look a little closer at Zucker’s current creation “Scary Movie 3.”
This movie gives the series a much needed boost in energy and a slightly different sense of style.
No, these movies will never be Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams, but they are not meant to be.
The movies are meant to be a little bit of frivolous and harmless fun while poking fun at other movies.
The only problem is Zucker, who sets up some great sight gags and slapstick humor, goes a little too far with a couple of scenes of animal defecation and mating dogs.
This installment which makes fun of “The Ring,” “Signs,” “The Matrix” and “8 Mile,” features the virginal blonde Cindy (played by Anna Faris, who has been in all three “Scary Movies”) is still just as ditzy and self-involved as ever.
This time she’s a television newswoman raising a creepy nephew.
In a parallel plot, Charlie Sheen (“Platoon,” “Wall Street” and “Hot Shots” spoofs the movie “Signs” as he plays the tortured single father with a cornfield full of alien graffiti, and his brother played by Simon Rex takes a shot at the movie “8 Mile” to be a Midwest rap star.
In an earlier unrelated scene, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy star in a short piece as two catholic school girls who are wearing unusually short plaid skirts and even more revealing white blouses who are home all alone and in fear for their lives from a unseen danger.
One thing I probably would have done differently is expand the “Matrix” spoof with Eddie Griffin as Orpheus and Queen Latifah as The Oracle, Aunt Shaneequa. The pair make a good comedy team and Latifah’s expanding talent as an actress and comedian are made apparent by the way she cxarries herself in this movie.
However, Zucker hits the nai right on the head by using the legendary comedian George Carlin as the Architect from “Matrix Reloaded.” His randy old man routine is both disturbing and hilarious at the same time. This movie is not for young children or the infrequent movie goer because they won’t understand it.
