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Scary Movie 3 (Widescreen Edition)

Scary Movie 3 (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad Comedy from Over-The-Hill Filmmakers
Review: Isn't the point of a comedy film to make you laugh? I didn't laugh once. A couple of old, white, male filmmakers (yes, the Wayans LEFT) try to parody pop culture and it just comes out sad and painful.

Pat Proft (co-writer/head-writer) hasn't written a funny movie since the mid '80s, and David Zucker (director) hasn't directed a funny movie since Naked Gun 2.5 in 1991. Why Dimension would take these two hacks and hand them a profitable franchise is beyond me, especially after the raft of pitifully UNfunny movies they've made in the last 10+ years. This film sucks so hard, you'd think it had a collapsed star at the center (i.e. a black hole)... though Charlie Sheen could qualify for that description.

Someone stop these hacks before they make another NOT FUNNY comedy.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Has funny moments, but not a good movie
Review: I had high hopes for Scary Movie 3 simply because one of the Zucker brothers took over. His track record with Airplane, Top Secret and the Naked Gun series gave me hope that their would finally be another funny movie in this genre. Scary Movie 3 had funny moments, but definitely failed to deliver.

The main problem is the set up of the movie and the belief that that you almost have to remake a movie to make it funny. So, Scary Movie 3 is a combination of Signs, The Ring and Eight Mile. Almost every scene in the film is a direct ripoff from one of these movies. So, if you haven't seen the original, you aren't going to think Scary Movie 3 is funny.

The cast does a good job with the material, but its almost like you are watching separate movies, with Anna Farris in the Ring, and Charlie Sheen in Signs. The characters never really combine and the movie doesn't flow too well.

There hasn't been a good spoof movie since the Naked Gun in my opinion. (Wrongfully Accused was okay.) The problem is that the recent films try to build a movie around spoofing another movie. Why not just try and tell a story, then build your spoofs and gags around the story. That's been the consistent theme of most good spoof movies.

A good spoof movie should be funny if you haven't seen the original that it is parodying, and Scary Movie 3 was just confusing if you hadn't seen the Ring or Signs or 8 Mile.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funny but not the same sick humor as the other 2 but funnny
Review: I bought scary movie 3 the day it came out and finally watched it on Friday. I thought it was funny, but it was not the same sick humor as the first 2, but it was still funny. So see it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: ...um...
Review: eh...this one didnt blow my skirt up...this franchise is nothing without the waynes and hopefully if hollywood decides to still put Scary Movie 4,5,6,7, ect. out, that they wont be as disapointing as this one...its not even that funny...yea it has some really funny parts but all the other spoofs are jsut kind of...lame...this is definatly for a younger audience...but what about the older audience who made the first 2 so populare? we were just completely forgotton about in the making of this movie? was the over 200 mill $ gross of the first 2 totaly ignored while this movie was going into production? Its kind of like a slap in the face, but hey, what can you do? it was still a good movie, definatly not the best, but good...the DVD sucked tho...commercials on TV were talking of 3 times the extras or something like that, and i get to the extras, and i have like..2 i was like wtf! good movie, bad DVD...what more do you want?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: LEAVE "THE MATRIX" ALONE!!!
Review: TOO MUCH "MATRIX" PARODYS!!!
OTHER THAN THAT, A FUNNY TRILOGY!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Redeming The Series From Number 2
Review: Well Scary Movie 3 Is not A Waynes Brothers Its A Zucker Parody With Anna Faris And Simon Rex Both Putting On Great Wonderful Profomrences And Charlie Sheen Is Also Very Good As Well As Great cameos From Eddie Griffin Queen Latifa And pamela Anderson This Is A Very Funny Movie And Is Just As Good As The Very Funny 1st Film.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Pretty Frightening
Review: I recently saw this movie for the first time, and am very upset that I will never get that time back again. If someone tried to even give me this movie, i'd hit them in the face. It's basically just a parody of the movie "The Ring", except that movie was good. I loved the first two scary movies, but it just seems everything funny from those movies has been done, and there's nothing fresh anymore. If you're one of those people that laughs out loud when "Chandler and Ross™" get locked in a room or something, then you'll probably love Scary Movie 3. For the rest of us, just trust me and don't bother with this one.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hilarious, but...
Review: ...slightly disturbing. Okay, so I did like this one better than part 2, but they could have left a whole lot outa this movie. I didn't think that seeing a little kid repeatedly getting hit by a car, punched, throw out a window, or beat with a baseball bat was funny AT ALL. Also, what was the deal with the priest? That was not cool. Oh and if anyone close to you has died within like the past year, you'll find some of the material unbearable. My dear friend died about 7 months ago, and watching a guy jump into a casket and smack around a corpse was horrid, and the scene did not end quickly either. But on the whole I enjoyed this movie, I may watch it again today, but just fastforward the nastiness. Have fun!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Zero stars, I want my money back you thieves
Review: This part 3 is not funny at all. And the acting is terrible. Half the characters are trying much too hard to appear funny, and the other half seems to be asleep.

You only need to purchase part 2. That version is much better than this part 3.

The Waynes Brothers aren't even in part 3!!!! So that should give you a clue that when I say that its not funny, I'm being very honest.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not The Best We've Seen From Zucker, But Very Funny
Review: MOVIE: What we have here is a new take on the Scary Movie series. David Zucker is the man behind such satires as The Naked Gun movies and the first Airplane. His brother Jerry directed the hilarious Rat Race. So, comedy is in the blood of the Zuckers. I do admit that this movie is not the best of what Zucker has done and the reason for that is he is trying to appeal to the teenage audience, and boy did it work. The movie opened up to $48 million thanks to its successful marketing. The only reason I can see this film seems "stupid" to so many people is that it is complete chaos, nothing makes any sense, and it's really a montage of jokes. I find that this works well in this movie. It would be insulting for the writers to try and give us an actual plot to follow while spoofing so many movies. Movies like Airplane, The Naked Gun, Spy Hard, are spoofing usually one movie while throwing in other references here and there. This movie pokes fun at so many films, lots of them not horror movies at all. What makes the film so enjoyable is that you will laugh from start to finish without a break. I personally like Zucker's style of comedy versus the Wayans Brothers. Bringing the level of comedy to PG-13 was a smart move as the first two R rated films were at some times more grotesque than funny. This movie handles itself well in being funny and entertaining to watch and if you call it "stupid", at least try and come up with a more original adjective and have some reasoning for the movie because everyone I know who hated the movie labeled it as "stupid".

VIDEO: The video is pretty crisp considering it's a comedy that will most likely be a one night stand rather than a classic. The widescreen version is what I have and it looks very nice except for some video noise that plagues some scenes. Otherwise a nice presentation from Dimension and Miramax.

AUDIO: There's a Dolby 5.1 mix, and really it's perfect for the type of movie this is. The sound isn't anything to get excited about and you really shouldn't get excited. This isn't the movie you'd pop in to show off your surround system, but then again the sound suits the movie.

PACKAGING / EXTRAS: The disc comes in the average keepcase. A decent amount of extras are also on this disc. You have the typical sneak peeks on this Disney disc, but the only trailers are for The Osbornes DVD sets. . . why is beyond me. There is an alternate ending that is pretty funny, a funny blooper reel, deleted scenes with optional commentary, Behind the scenes of the alternate ending, a very nice making of that isn't just a 7 minute thing with interviews, and then a more entertaining making of. There is also a feature commentary with a bunch of the crew. The deleted and extended scenes have some funny moments, but I agree with their choices in removing them cause they are not all that great. Overall a very nice bunch of extras that are fun to watch.

Movie Score: (3 Stars / 5 Stars)
DVD Score: (8 / 10)


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