Sucky Movie 2,045,837

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2001)

The young actress Anna Faris, pale, moon-faced, with crisp blue
eyes that recall the "Oh, me!" shock of clean ingenues back to Fay
Wray, is a lovable child who's full of promise. I am getting the
feeling that the Wayans kids have something against white
women, because in this sequel--even more so than in the
original--Faris is a punching bag for more abuse and humiliation
than a vivisected supermodel in a Dario Argento splatterfest. (If you
think I'm exaggerating and have a sagging sense of humor, just
recall that Keenan Ivory Wayans cuts to a CLOSEUP of a
steaming, hissing bowel movement made by Faris...revealed to
her "comic" sorrow and shame.)
Lazily thrown together in the wake of SCARY MOVIE's monster
success, 2 has none of the original's visual slickness or relative
accuracy of gag-hurling (there, the ratio was about 1 in 2; here,
more like 1 in 10). There are a few huge, convulsive laughs, but
most of the movie consists of gag-inducing grossout oneupmanship. Potty humor was once liberating--a protest
against the decorum of "clean" comedy. Now it just seems puerile
--and it really does (as with Chris Elliott's shtik with a withered
hand) make me gag. It's as if filmmakers now, challenged by the
near-impossibility of making a truly riotous comedy, want to get a
reaction out of us by any means necessary. When that means
Chris Elliott inserting snot into mashed potatoes, it's time to stop.