Not Worthy Of Its Predecessor

Rating: 2/10 (7 September 2002)

I loved "Scary Movie." It was so absolutely stupid it was hilarious. I still laugh whenever I see it, and I had been so looking forward to an opportunity to see this next installment. My advice to all of you: don't tarnish your memories of the first with this abysmal sequel.
One accepts that by the very nature of the series as a parody the story will be stupid, the acting deliberately bad and the humour silly. That was the case with the first movie, but in the first movie it was funny; it worked. Here, it's lost its edge. That's the problem with parodies. It's hard to do them more than once and keep them funny. This reminds me a bit of the "Airplane" movies spoofing airline disasters. The first one was great, after that - why bother? Now, sometimes the parody format can work in a sequel. I'm thinking of the "Naked Gun" movies or "Austin Powers." But "Scary Movie 2" doesn't cut it as a worthy sequel. I'm not sure that I even broke a smile the entire way through.
While most of the cast is back (including Anna Faris as Cindy, around whom the sequel also focuses), I have to say that I really missed the character of "Doofy" from the original, and there was no one in this cast to really fill the hole that was left. And this movie needed something to recapture the fun of the first.
2/10