Scary Movie 4

Plot synopsis:
Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil wake up chained in a bathroom (spoofing Saw). Shaq has to make a free throw with a huge rock in order to get the saw down to cut off their legs (spoofing Shaq's famous difficulties at the free-throw line). Shaq and Dr. Phil have only two minutes to free themselves of their leg braces before dying from the room's airborne nerve gas. Finally, Shaq makes the basket and lowers the saws down. Dr. Phil ends up sawing off the wrong foot, thereby remaining chained and the two are presumed to be dead.Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen), spoofing Bill Pullman's character from The Grudge, wakes up. There are three girls (from The Girls Next Door on E!) in his bed who later have a pillow fight. He tries to kill himself by taking too many sleeping pills but the pills turn out to be Viagra, resulting in him tumbling over a balustrade, landing on his erect penis, and dying. Cindy Campbell goes to get a new job (parodying Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in The Grudge). She's been asked to be a caretaker for the creepy "Grudge House." She receives a tour inside, Cindy expects nothing and she gets a 'feeling of evil' as the guide tries to hide the overflowing hair on the ceiling, in drawers and baskets and on his head; and The Grudge Boy in the bathtub by pushing him down with a plunger, and then walks out naked and Cindy smiles and says "I'll take it".Meanwhile, Cindy's neighbour Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko), spoofing Tom Cruise's character in War of the Worlds, gets fired from his job as a crane operator at the docks. At a bar afterwards he runs into Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) and CJ (Kevin Hart) where it is revealed, in a parody of Brokeback Mountain, that the two have started a homosexual relationship. Tom gets home, where his ex-wife (Molly Shannon) has just arrived with his children, Robbie and Rachel, who both resent him. Cindy's job is to look after the incapacitated Mrs. Norris (Cloris Leachman), however she is incompetent at it, to the point of accidentally sponge bathing Mrs. Norris with her own urine. Throughout the night Cindy notices strange events going on in the house, culminating in her finding a ghostly boy in the attic.The next morning she confides in Tom about the events of the previous night, which leads to a conversation about their past relationships. Cindy has a flashback to her first marriage, showing a big African-American man cussing her out, and then another to her second marriage, to the death of her husband George (Simon Rex) where, in a parody of Million Dollar Baby, George trips and breaks his neck (as do numerous members of the audience) during a boxing match between Cindy and Tiffany Stone, a female version of Mike Tyson also showing a pile of bitten-off ears. As they share a kiss, the sky suddenly goes stormy and everything electrical stops working (In the real movie cars stopped working, but in this movie cars, bicycles, skateboards and a man runs out of a toilet, trousers down and holding a newspaper ("My bowels have stopped moving!"). Tom goes to investigate, and discovers the world has come under attack by gigantic triPods (giant iPods) that play 80s music... and then switches to the "Destroy Humanity" playlist, transforming the iPods into actual Tripods, which vaporize the humans they zap (it was also showed three people which seemed to be rappers, get vaporized and dropping a huge pile of bling-blings).Cindy runs back into her house and finds the ghost boy again. They began talking in "Japanese" (actually Japanese brand names and "buzz words" such as Sony, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu), in what may be a parody of the scene between Beatrix Kiddo and Pai Mei in Kill Bill in which Pai Mei says "Your Japanese is lousy. It dishonors my ears.", which the ghost boy says to Cindy. She is told by the ghost boy that she can find the answer to the alien attack when she finds his father. He gives her directions to his location but Cindy couldn't read them so they transformed into a Yahoo map so that Cindy could read it. Tom splits up with Cindy and flees with his kids. Cindy runs into Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), who apparently faked her death in Scary Movie 3, and together they manage to find the last working car and follow the directions of the ghost boy.The scene then changes to the President of the United States being informed that aliens are attacking. President Baxter Harris (Leslie Nielsen) is sitting in Edna R. Penhall Elementary School, listening to a book being read (something about a duck); when his aide Jamison (Alonzo Bodden) comes, he sits motionless, wanting to hear the rest of the story. This mirrors George W. Bush's being read a children's story for seven minutes, after being told about the September 11 attacks. At an emergency session of the UN, and a round of horribly inappropriate jokes, President Harris reveals a weapon made to combat the aliens. Scientists have taken the lasers used by the TriPods, which kill the people but leave their clothes behind, and modified it to do the opposite to the aliens. The members of the UN get an unexpected, and quite unwelcome, demonstration when President Harris accidentally hits the switch and is soon standing in front of all the delegates, completely unaware that he is totally naked. Its not long before the entire UN is stark naked. Baxter's aide Harper (Bryan Callen) tells Baxter that he's naked too where Baxter thinks that he was wearing a wrinkly leather coat. Harper escorts the President out of the UN.Cindy and Brenda come across a village that is a hundred years behind modern times. After unsuccessfully trying to steal clothes off some villagers, they take some from a laundry basket and attempt to fit in. Unfortunately, they are captured and are taken into a court to decide their fate. Henry Hale (Bill Pullman), the head of the village, rules that Cindy and Brenda may stay in the village, but they may never leave.Tom and his children run into a battle between the Army and triPods. Robbie decides to join the fight, excited by the graphic violence. While Tom tries to dissuade him, Michael Jackson (who has gathered a bunch of children) tries to persuade Rachel to come with him, but Tom manages to stop her in time. Unfortunately, Robbie gets away. Jackson is zapped by the triPod's heat ray; the first blast causes him to revert to his Bad appearance, the second into his Thriller appearance, and the third reveals his true form - a balding middle-aged black man - before a fourth blast destroys him totally, leaving only his nose. Tom and his daughter flee into house protected by Oliver (Michael Madsen), parodying Tim Robbins' character from War of the Worlds, who is telling them that they should make their own tripods ("Ours will have FOUR legs").That night, the village is attacked by Those We Don't Speak Of, however it is discovered that they are simply villagers in costumes. Next door, Henry is stabbed by the mentally challenged Ezekiel (Chris Elliott). Henry reveals to Cindy and Brenda that he is the father of the ghost boy, who was killed at Cindy's boxing match because everyone snapped their necks and Don King crushed him. He tells Cindy that only she has the power to defeat the triPods. At that point, Cindy and Brenda get captured by a triPod, as do Tom and Rachel.The characters wake up in the bathroom from Saw. Cindy and Brenda are wearing the "Venus Fly Trap" from Saw II and Tom is wearing a device that would shoot a large dildo into his anus. Jigsaw appears on a monitor on the wall, and tells them they have 60 seconds to get the Venus Fly Traps off before they close. Eventually, Cindy figures out (after much prompting) that she has to get the key from behind her eye, which she does with ease, because the key was behind a glass eye she got due to a "bad bar fight in '96". Cindy frees them from their traps, and Tom's kids come down from the ceiling, about to be sliced into bits unless he holds onto a rope which happens to be between an iron maiden. He grabs onto the rope which leaves him open to another torture device called the Nut Cracker, which gives him various punishments such as kicking his crotch, and giving him a purple nurple and a wet willy. Moments before their deaths, Cindy finds photos in the toilet of Jigsaw, a woman, and the ghost boy, and realizes that Jigsaw was the ghost boy's real father, and the entire invasion was revenge for his son's death. He then says "Anyone can hold a grudge, but it takes real courage to forgive," and it is at this time that Jigsaw comes into the spotlight. He then tells them that the invasion is over and allows them to leave.He apologizes for the invasion and killing millions of people, and then Brenda (who went through a rotating wall into the control room earlier) and Jigsaw's brother, Zoltar, emerge from the other room, where they have just had sex. Jigsaw asks Zoltar if he caught anything, Zoltar replies that Brenda (untruthfully) told him she was a virgin and Jigsaw finishes by saying "We are so fucked." Nine months later, Brenda gives birth to a baby that looks just like Jigsaw and Zoltar.After that, James Earl Jones gets hit by a bus (which may be referring to what happened to Terry in Final Destination) while delivering Morgan Freeman's closing lines from War of the Worlds.A five minute epilogue spoofs the Tom Cruise couch incident by showing an Oprah Winfrey Show episode with Tom Ryan jumping on a couch with Oprah (played by Debra Wilson). Tom runs around the studio, does backflips (performed by David Leighton), swings across the studio, and chews/rips apart one of the couch cushions. Cindy Campbell walks in and gets thrown by Tom off the stage. Tom then breaks Oprah's hands and wrists, smashes a chair over her head, runs towards the camera lens, and the screen goes black.

Tags: cult, boring, stupid

Review:
The Wayans' relied far too much on lame sexual humour and gross-out jokes and I enjoy slapstick far more than that.Not that Scary Movie 4 doesn't have its fair share of (hilarious) crude jokes.
That's the level of the humour in this movie, and if you are entertained by violent slapstick, people getting hit by cars, sexual jokes, and brilliant dialogue such as:"I saw this face..." "With a nose?" "Yes." "Hmm. Sounds like a face."...then this movie is worth buying a ticket for.
While Scary Movie 4 definitely isn't a "good" movie, it's hard to put down comedy this funny.
As for the appearance of 'Michael Jackson' in the film, I'm still laughing every time I think about it - heaven knows how they got away with it, but its certainly a funny moment!!
Further, when I see this type of movie, I know exactly what I am going to see: scatological jokes, funny and surrealistic references to other films and definitely a movie that will never be indicated for an Oscar.I found this "Scary Movie 4" also very funny.
What do they expect to see when they go to the movie theaters or buy / rent a DVD called "Scary Movie 4" ("the last part of a trilogy"), directed by David Zucker and with Leslie Nielsen and Anna Farris in the cast?
The plot involves Cindy Campell, star of all the previous Scary movie films, moving into a new house.
For this one the required viewing or basic knowledge of a movie that you need for this one is mainly "Saw", "The Grudge", "The Village", "Million Dollar Baby", and for me the best one "War of the Worlds" (a movie that needed some fun poked at it).
There is also something in there making a bit of fun of a movie pretty much you don't need to have seen are know all that much about...you will get it as long as you watch a bit of television.
I was looking forward to it so much, but I have to say- at the end of the movie I found myself leaving the cinema slightly disappointed.Don't get me wrong, It was an OK film, its not like i hated it, but it sadly lacked the comedy of the other 3 films.
I was very pleased to see Brenda back, however, not even she could bring this up to the standards of the others.It felt as if each scene was rushed and just randomly placed together- for some reason, it didn't all seem to fit with each other, it was like "OK, we've done one spoof- quickly we have to do the next one" and everything seems so rushed and unfinished.However, it wasn't a complete disappointment, Their were some really funny moments in the film which save it from complete boredom.
The film is funny at times, but brow-beats its parody of Tom Cruise's character in War of the Worlds.
It was interesting to see Dr. Phil willingly take self-deprecating humor, and Debra Wilson is a comedy goddess (I miss her on MadTV), but other than that the laughs ran so thin that sometimes it was hard to tell if they were making fun of other movies or just getting some more use out of left-over sets.
Oh My God, i can't believe i wasted $8 bucks on this piece of crap.I mean the some of the jokes were funny but most of them seem like an 8 year old that just learned what sex was would write.
This movie is most likely suited for children under 12 that think poop jokes are funny.1&2 were much more funny but I don't know what they did to this series, they just made it more disgusting and retarded.
However, I will give the studio kudos for recreating those scenes with splendid accuracy.If you enjoy watching movies you have already seen, except poorly modified in completely low-brow attempts to make you laugh, then run out right now and see this.
The effects in the movie are good and the lampooning is not awful but the comedy is something America threw out five years ago, lets hit someone in the head or make a joke about farting....lets not!Its a shame that Zucker and Neilson would throw something this bad out because both air plane and the naked gun are genius.
I strongly recommend this movie for fans of the "Scary Movie" series, and to people with a special sense-of-humor, what I mean is people who laugh at immaturity and really funny bathroom humor.
However, the second half of the movie has quite a few laughs and had enough energy to keep me interested in the movie, but the movie needed a refill for the last few minutes, as it runs out of gas before it reaches the finish line.This time around the plots of recent movies such as War of the Worlds, The Grudge, Million Dollar Baby, Saw, The Village, and quite a few others are intertwined to form a smudge of a comedic plot.
It's as if they had no other funny dialogue to come up with, and added fart and ball jokes instead that reminded me of the previous bomb this year, Date Movie.
Scary Movie 4 rating: 1 out of 4If a comedian were to crack a thousand jokes and we laughed at four, this comedian would not be considered funny.
The movie explores all the box office hits such as War of the Worlds, The Village, The Grudge, Million Dollar Baby and Saw. Scary Movie 4 is way better than 2, 3.
I did not care for War of the worlds, I thought they totally destroyed a very good story / Concept when they created that movie, but made it worse by trying to make fun of it in SM4.
SCARY MOVIE 4 (2006) * Anna Faris, Craig Bierko, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Carmen Electra, Bill Pullman, Chris Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Molly Shannon, Simon Rex, Debra Wilson, Charlie Sheen.
(Voices of Dane Cook, James Earl Jones) (Cameos as themselves: Dr. Phil, Shaquille O'Neal) Virtually laugh free chapter in the ongoing comedy spoof of horror and sci-fi films this time poking fun at "War of The Worlds", "The Grudge", "Saw", and "The Village" among others with barely a smile inducing moment despite David Zucker back at the helm with his jam-as-many-jokes-as possible per frame is overwhelmed for its lackluster inspired lunacy one would anticipate.
A movie with no plot (which, admittedly, isn't the main objective of the "Scary Movie" franchise, but come on, this had nothing) that was like a 5 year old kid trying to do exactly what his "cooler" 18 year old brother would do is what I got.From Viagra to pure toilet humor in every sense of the phrase, "Scary Movie 4" was an exercise in futility as much as it was a comedy movie.
Among the spoofs are the movies "War of the Worlds," "The Grudge," "Saw," "Brokeback Mountain," (don't ask) and "The Village." None of the spoofs are done particularly well, at least compared to the spoofs in "Scary Movies 1-3" (the Shaq/Dr. Phil scene that was on TV every five seconds in the weeks before the movie was released was basically the whole scene in itself, and it wasn't even that funny).The only redeeming quality to the movie was the performance of Leslie Nielsen as the President of the United States, and even then, the obvious mocking of the attacks, or response thereof, on 9/11 were in bad taste."Scary Movie 4" failed in all aspects.
"Scary Movie 3" got good performances from Anna Faris and Charlie Sheen.
Understandably that this movie was meant for potty humor and cheap laughs, but come on you can only go kicking a dead horse so many times and the joke gets old, really old.The only thing entertaining about seeing this movie was watching the girls in front of me chatting back and forth about what clothes their going to wear tomorrow.
Half an hour into this film I snuck out of Scary Movie 4 and snuck into She's the Man (a surprisingly awesome comedy, it aims for the same age audience, but those with a higher IQ) The failing for this film is obvious - there is no sense of plot or character and so the jokes consist solely of spoofs of popular recent films without anything to hold it together - or hold your interest.
Then again, toilet humor has been done right plenty of times in other movies - but that fact just makes this movie's failure more catastrophic.Outside of writing that outdoes the Wayans Brothers in suckedness (In Living Color was the last documented moment these guys were funny), the overall production is poor.
Once this film is released on DVD, the goof-ups section of IMDb will absolutely light up, if people even bother.When *HUGE* target movies like 'The War of the Worlds', 'Brokeback Mountain', and 'The Grudge' are so severely missed with an almost too-easy opportunity, this movie deserves to be slammed for 10 more paragraphs, but hopefully a point has been made.
After watching the previous Scary Movies I was expecting at least a moderate laugh.
The evil TriPods, and the evil kid who was killed in a boxing match which killed other people all linked to Cindy Campbell and the mysterious guy who put a stool in the arena (still doesn't say who did it).A movie that makes fun of War of the Worlds, The Grudge, The Village, Saw must mean some serious business.
I had seen Scary Movie 1 & 2 and thought they were pretty amusing, so when I saw this new one was number 1 at the box office I thought maybe it was good too.I was wrong.
Special FX put on the slapstick humor make the movie seem like a silly cartoon where characters bounce around uncontrollably rather than a comedy.I loved all the previous scary movies but this one is worse than mediocre.
A lot of the jokes still raise a chuckle, some of the best being the Brokeback Mountain out-take and Bierko's hilarious impersonation of Tom Cruise's ridiculous over-acting in the recent War of the Worlds re-make, not to mention his iffy personal life.
But unsurprisingly the best comes from that master of the trade Leslie Nielsen, really showing how it's done hilariously sending up George Bush's dim-witted responses to threats to the country.Cracks are starting to show a little now and I hope this series doesn't go the way that the Police Academy movies (apparantly) did, but for a damn good laugh to escape it all, the Scary Movies are great fun and it's just too bad if this is the last one.
The concept of the "Scary Movie"-series is beginning to look more like a tragedy instead of a comedy.
Which ironically also stars Leslie Nelson, who plays the dimwitted President that just can't get anything right"Scary Movie 4" focuses on Tom Ryan (Bierko) who is a knuckle head and teams up with again Cindy Campbell (Faris) and her thought to be dead friend Brenda (Hall) who together have to stop an alien invasion.
Fans of the 'Scary Movie' series will know pretty much what to expect: plenty of gross out gags, parody and a decent performance or two.
That pretty much sums it up: if fart jokes and a girl getting hit in the head on a couple of different occasions with a ball is funny to you, then look no further than 'Scary Movie 4.' If you're hoping to find something a bit more sophisticated, you'll do better searching elsewhere..
The "Scary Movie" franchise has hit a new low, which I did'nt think was possible after the third entry.Comedy is obviously a personal thing, but I enjoyed the first two movies due to their energy and the way they threw everything at the wall to see what would stick.
In contrast, this film seems to be an auto-pilot all the way through, spoofing movies such as "War of the Worlds" and "Brokeback Mountain" with no zest or imagination.The only bright spot is Leslie Neilson, who only appears in a handful of scenes but is the funniest thing in the film by far.Just a terrible, unoriginal, unimaginative, unmotivated movie which is a complete waste of 80 minutes.
The Grudge, War of the Worlds, The village and Saw...WTF...not only have they taken films from totally different areas of the horror genre but they have clearly mashed them together purely because they were big at the time (although i think most would agree with me when i say The Village and The Grudge were hardly good films) The acting is standard for this type of spoof films and i have no problem with the actors, what i do have a problem with is the script that i could have written in half an hour tripping on acid!
As the Scary Movie films keep coming it seems the script writers just cannot be bothered, and to be frank I can't be bothered to watch any more.This movie just dips into about more movies than I can think of, but doing so makes it lose some of the plot and it just about gets boring after about 20 minutes or so.
Personally I just don't see the funny side of this series no more as this movie just about made me titter at one part of the film, and throughout the rest I was thinking "is it nearly finished yet?!".
I, ironically, laughed 4 times (once kind of hard) at Scary Movie 4.
Spoofs of "War of the Worlds", "The Grudge", "Saw", and "The Village" are just some of the big movies spoofed in the 4th sequel to the extremely popular series.The "Scary Movie" franchise has been a spoof franchise that I feel is overrated.
I found them kind of funny but since "Saw" is probably the best movie out of all the movies spoofed I think they could have made the "Saw" jokes funnier Luckily, even though I didn't think everything worked in "Scary Movie 4", I still think the film was better than the first two which is good news to me.
However, I must say neither part 3 or 4 have topped the opening sequence in the 2nd film which was "The Exorcist" spoof.Director David Zucker does an OK job directing but like I said sometimes I feel he thinks one joke is never enough.
The man created "The Naked Gun series" and "Airplane" so he knows what a good spoof is.In the end, "Scary Movie 4" is a decent sequel that just tries to hard at times to be funny.
I think maybe the "Scary Movie" franchise needs to come to an end and Zucker and Anna Faris should move on and work together on new projects.
So while "Scary Movie 4" wasn't a masterpiece, it still delivered a decent amount of laughs and I think majority of fans of the series will enjoy it.
So if you like the franchise, see the 4th because even though it's not as good as the 3rd, it's still a decent attempt at the spoof genre and is a whole hell of a lot funnier than "Date Movie."MovieManMenzel's final rating for "Scary Movie 4" is 6 out of 10.
Scary Movie 4 spoofs millions of films like 'The Grudge,War Of The Worlds,Saw,The Village as well as pop singer Michael Jackson'.
Meanwhile, aliens invade the Earth and threatens to destroy mankind.Spoofing a host of movies like Saw, War of the Worlds, Million Dollar Bay and The Grudge, this movie has a lot of gags, but I just didn't find them funny.
He was in the previous Scary Movie)and The Village also gets spoofed with a funny turn by Bill Pullman.
Better Than the Previous Two. Scary Movie 4 (2006) ** (out of 4) The fourth film in the series has Cindy (Anna Faris) getting a new job inside a house, which she believes is haunted.
I didn't like any of the previous movies, but because I've seen all the kinds of films being spoofed, I kind of ended up watching it anyway.
These Scary Movie movies are nothing short of giving crappy horror films the same humour and spoofing style as Airplane and The Naked Gun, the first 2 were done okay-ish but this one and the third one hit the humour right on the head.The movie's plot doesn't really matter, you just watch it for laughs and if you look at comedy movies that way you will say this one is the best.
Especially the jokes about Brokeback Mountain, Million Dollar Baby and Saw are still hilarious.Even though those series were finally rather childish with a very bad first part, an acceptable and entertaining second and fourth part and a really good third part, I would like to see a true fifth part in the future as there have been many movies in the past years that should be parodied by this sympathetic crew..
You will get some good laughs out of it and the reason the jokes mostly work is because there are great comedic talent like Regina Hall, Lislie Nielsen, Anna Faris, Craig Bierko, Anthony Anderson, Chris Elliott, Kevin Hart, Charlie Sheen and Simon Rex. They spoof every horror hit of that year or last and make a story of it all and they parody everything from War of the Worlds to Saw its not as good as the other Scary Movies but still a pretty good spoof.
"Scary Movie 4"- A weak comedy that is salvaged by a few good laughs....
David Zucker returns to direct, as do Anna Faris and Regina Hall return to star in "Scary Movie 4", the weakest entry in this parody series.
A lot of the jokes seemed like last-ditch attempts at humor, and the few truly funny moments are few and far in between.In the end, it comes to is this- "Scary Movie 4" isn't good.