This the latest in the scary movie series, parodies several recent film hits. Mainly it is a cross between war of the worlds and the grudge but has elements of the village, million dollar baby, brokeback mountain, and saw.

It has the usual cast of characters familiar to anyone who has seen one if the previous scary movie films with Anna Faris reprising her role as Cindy Campbell, Regina Hall as Brenda, and Carmen Electra as well window dressing. Charlie Sheen also appears briefly and Leslie Nielsen is the bumbling president of the USA he has one inspired scene where he is sat in a school room listening to a kids story when informed of the alien attack which anyone who has seen Fahrenheit 911 will note as possibly quite similar to footage of gw bush during 911. Craig Berkio stars as tom Ryan the tom cruise analogue for the war of the worlds bit and token love interest for Cindy. The film is roughly as expected some funny moments, how they got James earl Jones involved with it I'll never know he must have really needed the money, it was moderately enjoyable not a complex plot.

Another iteration of the Scary Movie series. Before I comment on this film I'd like to make the same comments on the original I do every time the subject comes up (cue the groans from anyone who I've previously ranted about this to)

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I hated the very idea of the first movie in this series. It was a parody of Wes Craven's Scream series of films. This sounds fine on paper. However, the Scream series are self-parodying throughout, and in my opinion pretty damn good at it. Imerely seeing the trailer of what appears to be a mindless spoof of such a film makes me angry. I'm not trying to convert anyone here, just saying what I think.

What has this got to do with this film? Well, it has Scary Movie in the name. I know its not exactly reasonable, but any name that carries those words gets a feeling of mild disgust from me. All I'm saying is I'm likely to be slightly more negative about it than if it were called something else.

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Anyway, on with the review.

As with the previous film (the only other one I've seen) the comedy was fairly hit and miss. A lot of the good stuff was purely incidental (monkeys is all I'll say) although as with all too many films some of the very good bits were in the trailer.

The film overall feels long to me. Most good spoofs are consistent, spoofing a single film. As several films are spoofed here it feels rushed (no time to put in depth) but drawn out (It feels like a half hour sketch show stretched to four times the length).

Then again, as I've said, I'm hardly impartial.