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Scream 3

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Scream 3
Review: Scream 3 is the final film in the trilogy. It was good. It was scary. Scream 3 delivers all parts of the other Scream films. It has a killer it has same characters in the first two films including new cast. Anyone who hated this film most hate scary movies. Scream 3 takes place on the set of Stab 3. As the film Stab 3 starts the killing sprees start again as Sidney hiding from her wrost fairs most once again kill the killer.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A must-see for fans, nothing new for the rest of us
Review: Making a trilogy is always tricky proposition, and a successful attempt requires good writing, good acting, and good characterization for all three films. The whole Scream series is lacking in these areas, but Scream 3 is especially disappointing.

After the "horror" of Scream 2, Sidney becomes a recluse and lives in the woods, surrounded by security systems and comfortable in her anonymity. She is coaxed out of her exile when another "copycat killer" begins to murder the cast members of "Stab 3," the third movie based on her story. Together with Detective Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) and her old sidekicks Dewey (David Arquette) and Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox Arquette), Sidney hunts down the killer and finds out the ultimate secret about her mother's past. This same secret is responsible for the nightmare that she's been living throughout the trilogy.

Kevin Williamson's writing made the first two movies tolerable, if barely. Ehren Kruger diverges greatly from Williamson's style in Scream 3, breaking the continuity of the first two scripts. Kruger does manage, however, to give a convincing conclusion to the story line of Scream 1 and 2, which is what makes this film a must-see for fans of the first two installments. While Scream 3 tries to make it hard to guess whom the killer is ("In the final act, all bets are off"), it fails in this regard, and predictability is (once again) the norm.

Related to this change in writers is the poor characterization we find in Scream 3. The sad truth is that not only are the characters introduced in the film deprived of any depth, but the characters that are the series' legacy are also denied any growth or expansion. There are no epiphanies, save for Sidney's apparent tranquility as the curtains fall, and her realization that "it's over" (oh please, LET IT BE OVER!).

Neve Campbell manages to use all three of her facial expressions in different enough combinations so that it isn't annoying. David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette work with the meager script they're given and deliver great performances for their characters, as they did in the first two films. Patrick Dempsey plays the part of Kincaid well, even though his appearances are minimal and his character is given no opportunities to develop. Parker Posey is mildly annoying, but mostly ignorable, as Jennifer Jolie (who plays Gale in "Stab 3").

Some special things to look for are the cameo by Jay and Silent Bob (from Dogma), a performance by the always-beautiful Jenny McCarthy, and an unexpected appearance by Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy), the all-knowing horror movie buff from the first film.

If you're going to get Scream 3, get it in DVD, simply because VHS will be dead in 3 years and you'll have to get it again anyway. The differences in video and audio quality alone should be enough to warrant the purchase of the DVD version.

Bringing it all together, if you're a die-hard Scream fan, get this film. It will bring the story to a close and tie many of the loose ends left by the first two episodes. If you're not a fan, or just don't care, then spend your money (and time) watching something else. Sidney is finally "ok", and Scream fans have can have closure. Rest in peace, Scream. Stay dead.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: PUTS THE ICING ON THE CAKE
Review: SCREAM 3... Hello Sidney, even the catch phrase is appealing. Neve Campbell delivers yet another great acting performance in the latest and supposidly last "Scream" film from brilliant director from the Freddy Kreuger days, Wes Craven. With a well thought out opening scenes with special effects even on the titles brings the atmosphere of such a film early on. The whole film keeps you guessing, who is behing the mask? The "film within a film" aspect is a very original idea for the ending of what I see as an almost perfect triligy.

Where did the last star vanish to?

Slight bordom in death scenes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome Conclusion!
Review: Before seeing Scream 3, I heard it was supposed to be the final movie, a true trilogy, and I was truely skeptical on how that would be possible concidering how Scream 2 brought to life the idea of copycat killing. I was truely amazed how Scream 3 brought me a real sense of closure and a real feel of the Scream movies being a true trilogy. To sum this one up, you never know the whole truth, the characters as well as the audience, until it comes up and bites you right where it counts. Scream 3 takes place in Hollywood, where the production of Stab took place in Scream 2. Now there is a Stab 2 and is not even talked about at all. Stab and Stab 2 are the true life movies, and Stab 3 is in production and is the non-true sequel, or is it? Ghostface is giving the crew of Stab 3 a real stab of a time. Now the real life characters and the actors from Stab 3 must team up to fight the menace that haunts them and uncover the truth that lies hidden underneath it all. Tori Spelling and David Schwimmer sure made a good choice to leave the Stab series after Stab 2. This movie will blow your mind if you are a true Scream fan. No guarantees in this one as to who will live and who will die, everyone's fair game. So sit back and relax and have a scream of a time!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Scream 3
Review: The first Scream was very good, the second was not bad, but this third one is really stupid. Sequels really suck, and no rules are broken here. Here Neve Campbell is NOT the main character, but Arquette and Cox Arquette. It's another round of brutal and bloody terror with slashing and killing. It's somewhat predictable and a little boring. I really hope there's not going to be a fourth Scream; one was enough. All in all, if you like horror, I guess you would like this one, but there's no solid plot behind.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: aaahhh nnnoooooo!
Review: Hopefully the last film in one of the worst horror trilogys ever made. This series pretty much ruined the horror film for years to come, for one its too self aware, thats incredibley annoying, second everyone acts like they are on Friends or some sitcom. The acting is just plain bad and unconvincing. Now the gore, if you're going with material this weak you should load it up with disgusting violence, is there any in the Scream series? No.

Everyone went to see this movie just to see who THE KILLER is. This movie sets low standards to be met, you expect alot of people to die, one shock, then we find out who the killer is, then you go home. Every horror film being made today is like that, there's nothing new or exciting or risk taking, its the same stuff over and over and people are laping it up like dog food.

This film is what you've come to expect, bad acting, some people die and we eventually find out who the killer is and all is merry and well. Pathetic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: You won't scream at all
Review: The first one was good, the second was OK but this one really misses the target, in fact it's dead boring. Probably the worst film of 2000, I doubt that any movie will come along in this year that will top this one in being BAD.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The exciting third installment of a legendary trilogy!
Review: I just bought Scream 3 this morning as soon as the store opened. I drove back home and popped it into the VCR and watched it. This one is amazing. There are no clues to who the killer is. I'm not going to spoil it for you. The ending is shocking. You find out a lot about Sidney's mother in this one. It keeps you on the edge of your seat through the whole thing. But you should watch Scream and Scream 2 before you watch this one or you'll probably be lost. You gotta pick up this one! I suggest if you do have a DVD player then buy Scream 3 on DVD. I bought it on VHS, the DVD has tons of extra stuff like an alternate ending, etc. Make sure you see this one or you'll be missing out!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A DVD Review
Review: Okay, the movie itself...I love Jenny McCarthy and Parker Posey so I found it to be a "cute" movie among horror spoofs. And come on, that's what the whole series was, not a "redefining" of the genre. Watching this after having seen Scary Movie makes it even more hard to take seriously as a thriller/horror film.BUT...let's talk about DVDs and this one as a pretty good/bad example. I'm a Laserdisc collector. I am used to the finest quality found in the consumer market. DVDs are laughable in comparison! The ease and simplicity of DVDs are what makes them like candy, but for a serious collector this is not the format for you. All the bonus selections looked a step above a MPEG that you'd download off the Internet. In some sequences you couldn't make out a character's face!And unless it's hidden, my copy did not contain the Creed music video. No loss, but I found that a little odd. And the deleted scenes they did show were none of any substance. Two additional takes on the pre-title sequence that didn't add a thing to the story or build up. And the "alternate" ending? It still ended the same way, they only left out Sid's ridiculous bullet-proof vest device that makes it more like an episode of Scooby-do than anything. Who was it that said, "let's go back and make that scene really, really stupid."

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 3rd Time is the Charm
Review: I enjoyed the whole trilogy but the care and fun the actors put into their 3rd time with these characters was one of the best! A lot of the time, the 2nd or 3rd movie in a continuing storyline is boring or just trash.

I own the first 2 and will buy the 3rd when it is available. I still watch them and giggle a heck of a lot of the time (even if it is to cover up scary parts).


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