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Summary: But Anyway I Don't Mind, For I Laughed in Spite of Myself
Review: "Shriek" ... I think the title tells all. If you don't expect much, you will be surprised to find that it is better than you thought. With better cast, more money, and famous cameos (how about Marlon Brando?), the movie could have been much publisized to reach more audience. As it is, folks, keep it your secret treasure."Shriek" is a blend of "Scream" and "Hot Shots!," telling the story of high school students (one of them is called "Dawson" ... nudge, nudge), mixed with countless parody about hit movies, TV series, commercial messages, and urban legands. The overall tone is less subdued thanks to less crude sex found in "Scary Movie," but it gives as much laugh as that hit movie if you're in good mood. It is useless to summerize the plot (if any), so I only add that my favorite is the opening spoof of ... eh ... "Scream" and a ladies bathroom scene which turns suddenly a different program. It is regrettable that some part of the movie is lost on non-Americans like me because of lack of knowledge on the original. Maybe in a decade much will be lost, so if you are inclined to see it, and have extra money and time, see it now. Or never. Silly, stupid, but I laughed.
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Summary: But Anyway I Don't Mind, For I Laughed in Spite of Myself
Review: "Shriek" ... I think the title tells all. If you don't expect much, you will be surprised to find that it is better than you thought. With better cast, more money, and famous cameos (how about Marlon Brando?), the movie could have been much publisized to reach more audience. As it is, folks, keep it your secret treasure. "Shriek" is a blend of "Scream" and "Hot Shots!," telling the story of high school students (one of them is called "Dawson" ... nudge, nudge), mixed with countless parody about hit movies, TV series, commercial messages, and urban legands. The overall tone is less subdued thanks to less crude sex found in "Scary Movie," but it gives as much laugh as that hit movie if you're in good mood. It is useless to summerize the plot (if any), so I only add that my favorite is the opening spoof of ... eh ... "Scream" and a ladies bathroom scene which turns suddenly a different program. It is regrettable that some part of the movie is lost on non-Americans like me because of lack of knowledge on the original. Maybe in a decade much will be lost, so if you are inclined to see it, and have extra money and time, see it now. Or never. Silly, stupid, but I laughed.
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Summary: Stick with Scary Movie if you want a good Scream spoof.
Review: ...a spoof about the Scream trilogy, more than likely inspired by "Scary Movie." ...I...was not impressed. Sure, it had it's laughs (I personally thought the Sex Ed. part was funny), but it wasn't anything. I didn't cry like I did when I saw "Scary Movie". It's about the same thing as you know what is, a clumsy, idiotic killer attacking high school students, while busting his [rear] to do it. Don't buy this, just rent it.
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Summary: I Screamed When I Saw This Movie Last Saturday the 14th
Review: First of all, my reviiew title is a pun of this awful, boring and terribly unfunny spoof of teen slasher flicks. "Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th" is a cheap knock-off of "Scary Movie," and unlike that film "Shriek" fails big time in capturing the zaniness and hysterical gags that film did when it opened in the summer of 2000. Starring a cast of unknown, young actors who were probably philosophy majors while in college, "Shriek" only has five stars that audiences might recognize: Tom Arnold ("Roseanne"),Coolio (singer of the smash hit song "Gangster's Paradise" from the film "Dangerous Minds," who plays the school principal) Rose-Marie ("Dick Van Dyke Show, playing Mrs. Tingle), Shirley Jones (from television's the "Patridge Family") and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (of "Beverly Hills 90210" fame, playing an annoying television reporter). However with this so-called "star" power, "Shriek" is a poor, awful excuse for a spoof. Since I won't waste any more time with this film, in concluding my review...However, if you seek something that is so boring and unfunny, then watch this film. It's simply an awful film that should have never been made.
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Summary: A frequently overlooked classicly funny spoof.
Review: First of all, to say this movie was made for tv is false. This movie was going to be released and actually began production BEFORE Scary Movie, but Scary Movie finished first and they had a lot more money to market. The people who made Shriek decided that they would seem like they were copying the Waynes brothers idea if they came out with a movie right after. So the movie was released on USA network as a tv movie, but NOT a made for tv movie. Just an unfortunate bit of luck.
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If you liked Airplane than you will love Shriek. It uses almost no grossout humor(besides a very brief shot that you can't see anything) but remains funny. And unlike Scary Movie it is packed with jokes, scary movie has a joke in a scene that is used throughout. An acceptable format, but in Shriek they just keep putting out jokes so if one fails it is ignored. And things happening in the backround for the re-watchers are just as funny.
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Everytime i watch this film i find at least one more joke that i missed the first time through.
Anyway, a great flick, far better than scary movie
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Summary: good but now as good as scary movie
Review: First off, let me say that this movie was very funny. Not as funny as it could have been, but very funny none-the-less. It had a good plot and some of the jokes were original, and smart. If you like Airplane or Hot Shots, you will love this movie. If you like a funny, but not a leaveyourbrainatthedoor funny, try scary movie. To me, Scary Movie was better. Probably because "Shriek..." was made for tv while Scary Movie was made for theaters. Go out and get it, you will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: didnt laugh with it, didnt laugh at it
Review: how many stupid spoofs can come out about horror movies that werent even that great in the first place? i love horror movies, mostly the 80's ones, and i enjoy spoofs also. scary movie was pretty good but everything else is just plain tired. this is so bad. first of all it stars tom arnold and coolio. second of all...aagahhhh. i cant take this anymore. just dont watch this movie. but im sure you wont anyways.
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Summary: It's No " SCARY MOVIE 1 or 2 " !!
Review: I bought this move on DVD after reading the reviews on here - it's so difficult to say in a few paragraphs what makes this such a poor movie - certainly no where near as good as the two Scary Movies - this movie was poorly acted / fragmented story / NOT FUNNY at all / tedious ........
Even the character updates at the end of the credits made no sense and were not funny - AVOID this one if you have a sense of humour !
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Summary: Amazingly bad
Review: I cannot believe that anybody could find this funny. Just throwing in a reference to every movie ever made isn't funny, you actually have to do something with it. They have even managed to make Tom Arnold unfunny(not easy). I am not a snob and I love stupid films such as TOP SECRET, NAKED GUN, THEY CALL ME BRUCE and the film that this couldn't even hope to get close to, STUDENT BODIES. If you want a spoof of horror films see that, not this(don't even think about it). PS, the guy who plays the part of Dawson is possibly the worst actor I have ever seen.
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Summary: "Scary Movie's" biting satire without the raunchiness
Review: I first saw it on the USA Network and thought it was slapstick hilarious, especially the multiple reenactments of the infamous "I Know What You Did Last Summer" car-impact sequence. Not only does it slam slasher flicks, but also hammers WB teen soap operas as well as genre parody; for example, "Scary Movie's" not-gay-but-promoting-the-stereotypes-anyway character Ray gets spoofed in the form of the character Martina, who also spoofs Jamie Kennedy in "Scream" by laying down the law on the mechanics of a genre parody movie. Another bit of hilarity is the background inserts of the Killer ducking in and out of the crowd randomly murdering people and nobody notices. While it does have some bad sex jokes, mostly revolving around the "American Pie" reject (...) ("It's pronounced 'Bonner,' sir." "Not from where I'm sitting!"), they're significantly cleaner than anything found in "Scary Movie."
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