Recycled jokes, but good ones

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2001)

Keenan Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie 2, a somewhat pale sequel to it's predecesor triumph Scary Movie, has some of the old characters back in a story resembling the Haunting and other spooky haunted house pictures.

As far as gags go, once again the film dishes out lurid and often distasteful (however quite funny) batches of them. Some are actually ones that were used in the last film (I guess Miramax thought you can't go wrong with semen and genitals), but while some might say that's a bad thing, I guess if the shoe fits, and can make you cringe as well, it's good. Worthy summer gross out comedy, although not as potent as the original. The best scenes- the first exorcist scene with James Woods and Andy Richter as the old priest and young priest, and the Beetlejuice in the brain gag. Grade, somewhere between B+ and A-