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Scary Movie
Airplane-style, Naked Gun-style, spoof of slasher films, which is to say that it's as unparticular about its targets as about its aim. Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and their respective sequels are the main targets, and The Blair Witch Project, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects, Amistad, whatever, come into the line of fire, too -- a rotating turret of fire. But there is more out-and-out stealing than up-and-up spoofing. (Yes, you can spot The Usual Suspects, but can you spot a tweak, a gibe, a jab?) The primary sources, or models, or host-organisms, were bad jokes in the first place, making a spoof redundant or irrelevant. And by and large the fund of gags assembled by director Keenen Ivory Wayans -- drool gags, snot gags, poop gags, boob gags -- are unattached to the foundation beneath. The artistic credo is a simple one: if a woman farting is funny once, it will be three times as funny the third time. A big "if." With Anna Faris, Shannon Elizabeth, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans. 2000.
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MPAA Rating: R