Not very funny

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2005)

Scary Movie 2, again directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, isn't as good as the original film. The script this time seems to have been hastily written so it could make its release date (they only had a year to make this 2001 film after the 2000 release of the original). Because of this, the dialogue is sub-par with the jokes either a rehash of the original, overly raunchy as to be very unfunny, or just plain dumb. The only real highlights are Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks (they are the highlights of all 3 Scary Movie films so far). Sadly, even the James Woods cameo as Father McFeely (in an unoriginal Excorsist spoof) isn't worth watching. An average 5 out of 10.