Uninspired, worthless "comedy"

Rating: 2/10 (6 July 2001)

This original film was 88 minutes of the grossest, nastiest toilet humor with enough on-screen gags to warrant an NC-17 rating. And yet, it was an enjoyable film for the same reason that South Park: Bigger Loner, and Uncut is an enjoyable film- they are both so shockingly vulgar and shamelessly stupid that they become something greater than toilet humor. However, the thing about shocking people is you can't shock them with the same things twice. The creators of South Park knew enough not to make a sequel. After just seeing Scary Movie 2, I wish the Wayans's Brothers would take a cue from them.
The movie does not make any attempt to be original; it does not make any attempt to shock us; in fact, we wonder if any effort as put into this at all. I can clearly see the writers, pressed for time and ideas, piecing together a script out of the worst moments of Scary Movie 2.
The original spoofed the tired and worn slasher film formula- particularly Scream. This one spoofs the equally tired ad worn formula of haunted houses. There are some smart pokes at Mission Impossible 2 and Charley's Angels; Chris Elliot and James Woods have funny cameos as a caretaker and an exorcist, respectively; and the film's most brilliant gag: a foul-mouthed parrot are the few examples of Scary Movie 2's originality. Most of the film repeats the same jokes from the original, or includes new ones that make the audience groan when they should laugh.
The jokes are painfully unfunny and dangerously overplayed. And the movie as a familiar feeling- like we've seen the exact same movie before. Without its shock value, this is mere toilet humor
*1/2 out of ****