Warning: Do not watch while eating

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2003)

I'd be interested to know when this was shown in theaters if staff clearing up after showings found a lot of unconsumed hotdogs and popcorn buckets under seats. The humour is for the most part of the kind that puts you off your food. It's crude and it doesn't always come off. There's crudity in Austin Powers but it's manipulated so skillfully that it's hilariously funny. There are other non-crude jokes which are funny. The scene where the marijuana plant grows to giant size and tries to smoke one of the Wayans brothers is brilliant. A scene early on in the film where the girl is driving in her car and singing along to the car stereo and the singer says tells her to shut up and let her sing is funny although spoiled a bit by an unnecessary swear word. But a lot of the jokes just fall flat unless you've seen the films that are being parodied. In Airplane you could still have a laugh at the scene where Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are rolling in the surf and get covered in seaweed and pollution even if you hadn't seen From Here To Eternity. Not so here. I see that Scary Movie 3 is to be directed by David Zucker so it might be worth watching. He might bring his touch that made Airplane so hilarious to the series. You don't usually see such pretty girls in comedies like this. Kathleen Robertson is gorgeous and so is Andrea Corr lookalike Anna Faris. On the subject of lookalikes, did it occur to anyone else when watching this film that if you took a picture of Joan Crawford and mischievously pencilled a beard on it you'd get Tim Curry? If there was an actor who looked like Bette Davis with a beard a good vehicle for him and Tim Curry would be a film called "Whatever Happened to Baby Jim"!