SCARY MOVIE 4
RATING 2.5
(Director: David Zucker, PG-13, 88 min)
The scariest thing about this is that they’re still making these sequels (even if they promise this 4th edition is the final chapter of the "trilogy"). But as long as there is an audience who’ll pay money to go see these spoofs, we’ll continue to get a new version every couple of years. The good thing is that this is an improvement over the last couple of installments; the bad thing is that wouldn’t take much.
In this go round, the movie opens with Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil having a Saw moment. Then the story settles down into a combination of The Grudge meets War of the Worlds – Cindy (Anna Faris) returns as a home caregiver for the nearly comatose Cloris Leachman and the ghost-kid hanging around the house. She lives right next door to Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko) who is trying to reconnect with his kids, hook up with Cindy, and save the world from invading aliens – when he’s not busy visiting Oprah (Debra Wilson) to dance on her couch and proclaim his love for Cindy.
This franchise doesn’t just spoof the horror films (probably because they need more material). To incorporate more movies into the mix, Cindy has a Million Dollar Baby flashback, while Tom’s friend Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) fondly remember his fishing trip a la Brokeback Mountain. Then Cindy learns she can get the answer to the alien problem if she and her old friend Brenda (Regina Hall) go to visit the set of The Village and speak to the one with the answers (Bill Pullman).
Some old characters return for a brief cameo (and a paycheck) including Carmen Electra (who gets to have the embarrassing toilet humor moment), Leslie Nielsen as President Harris, and Charlie Sheen as Tom Logan.
Scary Movie 4 starts with some promise – sure, it’s like sketch TV, but at least it’s SNL in the good years. Unfortunately, when it starts to fall apart, it takes a dive, then falls so fast the g-forces shock the audience into silence (no wait, they just got quiet because it stopped being funny). There aren’t even outtakes or any fun stuff during the credits to leave on a good note.
source:http://www.themoviechicks.com/early2006/mcrscarymovie4.html
