Eminently forgettable

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2006)

The first 10 minutes of this film are mildly amusing. Not painstakingly hilarious, just amusing. But considering the rest of the movie is completely laugh-free, "amusing" is good enough.
After the opening Exorcist spoof (enjoyable thanks to James Woods parodying Max Von Sydow), Scary Movie 2 fails to make its audience smile even once, despite the presence of people like Tim Curry and David Cross (priceless in Arrested Development, boring as hell is this film). Curry and Cross are studying supernatural phenomenons, which supposedly take place in a "haunted house". In order to succeed with their experiment, they decide to use a group of teenagers (those who didn't die in the previous installment) as baits. You can easily guess what's gonna happen next.
The first Scary Movie wasn't very memorable, but it had some good moments under the crude, puerile surface. The sequel, disappointingly, is just surface. All gags involve sex and drugs, drugs and sex, in what becomes a marathon of increasingly embarrassing jokes. The characters are one-dimensional and dull, and the actors do absolutely nothing to add more flesh to the unappealing bones. The whole film is so ridiculous I didn't even mind to point out a blatant continuity mistake (how can Brenda and Ray be in this movie when they were killed in the first flick?).
Final verdict: haven't seen this picture? Then don't. Watch Scary Movie 3 and 4 directly instead.
3,5/10