C’mon…I mean COME ON…

Let’s be honest with ourselves, you can’t go into Scary Movie (technically Scary Movie 6) expecting  any kind of nuanced, satirical comedy…you go in expecting 95 minutes of wall to wall dumb shit, and a decent percentage of the blinding amount of jokes…actually kind of work.

Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (“Ghostface”), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final. Nothing is sacred. No trope survives. ​Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.

While the advertising for the movie is playing into an idea that this movie is bringing back a world of inappropriate comedy, it’s not and is honestly fairly time for shock value as we’ve seen it all before.  Where Scary Movie actually works is where it is making fun of basically every single movie that has made huge money and been driving Hollywood the past 25 years.  With the Wayans style of comedy that basically wants to hit the audience with as many jokes and set us that it can in its run time, it’s never going run perfectly.  You’ll never be able to tell like 500 jokes in one movie and have it be perfect…but when 200-250 of ‘em kind of work…that’s not THAT bad.

These movies BARELY have any actual structure as they lean primarily on the Scream & Halloween franchises and they run through the setup at warp speed taking us from moment to moment.  This isn’t about telling a story or crafting a narrative, rather it’s about holding on for dear life as we fly from gag to gag to gag to gag to gag….you get the idea.

To Marlon Wayans (and the entire Wayans family credit) they actually stay true to the core jokes that they want to come through and aren’t necessarily as worried if an individual set up or sight gag falls flat, because quite frankly there’s going to be another one in less than a minute and probably sooner.  However since the story of them losing control of the series is well known, it’s a credit to them all that this is not a movie that’s about extending the franchise for new generations but rather it’s a call to appreciate the OG players in any franchise.

Anna Faris leans back into Cindy Campbell hard here actually going more Jamie Lee then Neve but it works while Marlon Wayans, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Lochlyn Munro and many others take great pleasure in reminding these young whipper snapper audiences looking for fresh faces on their screens, are in for a surprise.  Don’t mess around with the people that actually made this shit funny in the first place.

Don’t get me wrong, Scary Movie is not a “good” movie by any stretch of the imagination but if you are a child of the early 2000’s, there’s enough goes right in this movie to make you forget about everything that goes wrong.  And if you want to get a little “high” before seeing it, that’s probably not a terrible idea either.