Hysterical sequel. (spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2004)

PLOT:Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out, but the exorcism doesn't go as planned. A year later, survivors Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Shorty (Marlon Wayans) and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), are at college, trying to forget the incidents that occurred last Halloween. Cindy is falling for Buddy (Christopher Kennedy Masterson), who loves to give wedgies, and Ray is still confused about his sexuality. Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his paralyzed assistant, Dwight (David Cross), have decided to do a research study at Hell House, the house where the bad exorcism took place, and disguise it as a sleep disorder study. Chaos starts as soon as Cindy arrives and meets the creepy caretaker (Chris Elliot) with the funny hand. But the house has some deep dark secrets that the group has to solve, even if they are scary or disgusting.
DIRECTING: 7/10- Director Keenen Ivory Wayans directs this film competently with lots of slow-motion shots and Matrix-like camera angles.
WRITING: 8/10- Call the jokes crude, but I loved them. No, "Scary movie 2" has no intelligent, thought-provoking or meaningful dialogue but I thought that it was funny, original (Love the Amityville joke) and witty. While the third may have been funnier, this is still great fun and the jokes improved greatly over the original.
ACTING: 9/10- All the characters are memorable and funny, and the actors fit their parts perfectly. Great cast, too.
GORE: 2/10- Mostly cartoon violence. A man gets his skull cut off, but his heads empty, a chalandeer falls on a girl, a man's hair catches on fire, people get punched and kicked, etc. Nothing graphic or frightening happens.
MONSTERS: WE get a few. A Possessed demon girl (Excorsist-derived), a killer plant monster, and there is also some semi-visible ghosts. We also get a skeleton creature. This is one of the fakest monsters I've ever seen, but it serves it's purpose by getting it's head put on it's pubic bone and it's limbs put in different sockets.
SPECIAL F/X: 3/10- The effects are intermitent in quality. The creature effects, especially the skeleton and the plant creature, were accomplished via cable puppets and it's obvious--the cables and puppeteers are visible in many shots. Some of the other effects, however, are pretty good, including computer generated ghosts and flying furniture.
SOUNDTRACK: 7/10- The film boasts a pretty good soundtrack. I dug the song during the end credits.
FINAL VERDICT: "Scary movie 2" is a great sequel. It spoofs everything from the haunting to poltergiest and it's all great fun. My rating for "Scary movie 2"--8/10.