Scary Movie 3
Tags: comedy, adult comedy, stupid, paranormal, bleak, cult, horror, humor

Plot synopsis:
Katie (Jenny McCarthy) and Becca (Pamela Anderson) are talking about a tape, which Katie believes is a sex tape, but Becca refers to a cursed tape (The Ring). After several odd occurrences, they both die. Meanwhile, in a farm outside Washington, D.C., widowed farmer Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen) and his clumsy brother George (Simon Rex) discover a crop circle, saying "Attack Here!" (Signs).
Meanwhile, (taking place nearly ten years after the second film) Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), now a blonde news reporter, announces the crop circles on the news. She then goes to pick up her paranormally endowed nephew Cody (Drew Mikuska) from school, where her best friend Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) is his teacher. George Logan arrives to pick up his niece Sue, who is in the same class. Cindy falls in love with George, who invites her and Brenda to a rap-battle that evening with his rapper friends Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) and CJ (Kevin Hart) (8 Mile). George competes and proves to be actually quite talented, but due to unintentional racist blunders, he's thrown out.
Later, Brenda asks Cindy to keep her company, since she watched the cursed videotape. After playing several pranks on Cindy (fake seizures, burning hand, etc.), she gets the rest of the popcorn in the lounge, when the TV turns on. Brenda fails to turn it off. Tabitha (Marny Eng) climbs out of the well and the TV, Brenda gets into a fight with Tabitha. Tabitha ends up killing Brenda, since Cindy is ignoring the ruckus. George receives a phone call about the death, and Tom meets with Sayaman, who apologizes for the accident involving himself and Tom's wife Annie (Denise Richards).
During Brenda's wake, George and Mahalik, due to a misunderstanding, wreak havoc on Brenda's corpse in an unsuccessful attempt to revive her, only to blow up her body and end up getting kicked out of the house. Later, Cindy decides to watch the tape, finding it odd. She then gets a phone call, saying she'll die in a week. She calls George, CJ and Mahalik for help. CJ offers that his Aunt Shaneequa might be able to help. Aunt Shaneequa (Queen Latifah), the Matrix Oracle, and her husband Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) agree to watch the tape. Shaneequa discovers the hidden image of a lighthouse, and gets into a fight with Tabitha's mother. Shaneequa tells Cindy to find the lighthouse to break the curse. When Cindy returns home, she finds Cody watched the tape.
Back at work, Cindy searches through pictures of lighthouses before finding the one from the tape. Desperate to save Cody, Cindy tries to warn everyone by entering a message into the news anchor's teleprompter, but she is interrupted by her boss and a janitor who insults the manager on the teleprompter (which the anchorman blindly recites). The Logans hear the message and take it seriously since they encountered an alien disguised as Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), and President Baxter Harris (Leslie Nielsen), who personally visits the farm to investigate the crop circles. Cindy ventures to the lighthouse, where she encounters The Architect (George Carlin). The loquacious (and lecherous) old man explains Tabitha was his evil adopted daughter, whom his wife drowned in the farm's well, but not before she imprinted her evil onto the tape. Unfortunately, he mistook the evil tape for a copy of Pootie Tang and returned it to Blockbuster instead, unleashing the curse. When Cindy asks about how this relates to the Aliens, the Architect speculates that Tabitha is summoning them to aid her in destroying the human race.
Returning home, Cindy discovers her station has been broadcasting the evil tape for hours, and there have been various sightings of aliens around the world. Worse, Cody is missing. Cindy manages to track him back to the Logan farm, where he has taken refuge with George. Tom orders everybody into the basement for safety, as he, George and Mahalik go outside to fight off the extraterrestrials. The aliens (voiced by Tom Kenny) arrive but reveal they are friendly and have come to stop Tabitha, since they accidentally watched the tape on a broadcast they had intercepted, thinking it was Pootie Tang.
In the basement, Cindy realizes the farm's cellar is what is seen on the tape and she finds the well where Tabitha was drowned under the cellar floor. Suddenly, Tabitha appears behind her. A short fight ensues, during which Tabitha takes Cody hostage. Cindy and George appeal to her, offering her a place in their family. Tabitha appears to accept the offer, but then changes back to her monstrous form and advances to Cindy and the others, only to be accidentally knocked back into the well by President Harris. The aliens leave in peace, and Cindy and George get married. Leaving for their honeymoon, they realize they forget to take Cody with them. At first, Cody is about to get hit by Cindy's car in an intersection, but she put the brakes this time to prevent it from happening, much to Cody's relief. Unfortunately, Cody gets hit by another car passing through the intersection.

Review: Scary Movie 3 is largely a spoof of five films, The Ring (2002), Signs (2002), 8 Mile (2002) and to a lesser extent, The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003).
Meanwhile, President Harris (Leslie Nielsen) also becomes involved as the security of the country is threatened.I used to make it a point to not read any other reviews before I wrote my own, but recently, I've become curious when I watch a film I really enjoy, like Scary Movie 3, that many other people seemed to dislike.
Scary Movie 3 isn't bad because the trailer ruined it for you.Next, it's not a good idea to watch these kinds of comedies (we might call them "absurdist comedies", or "outrageous comedies") if you have any sacred cows--that is, anything that you feel one should not joke about, or that one could go too far in joking about.
I can't imagine why someone would like the one style and not the other, but if so, that might help you decide which Scary Movies to see, if any.Finally, there were also some complaints over the plot of this film, especially the combination of such seemingly disparate plots from the source material.
I liked the first movie, but didn't find the second one worth another watch, because they had lost all originality or sense of good humor.
Now with David Zucker as the director, the man who also gave us some other excellent parodies like "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun", instead of Keenen Ivory Wayans, I had some good hopes again.
You'll find Michael Jackson and references to the sex tape with Pamela Anderson in it as well, but the main difference with "Scary Movie 2" is that this time it all has been written into one solid and hilarious story.
With some famous actors like Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielsen, who both have a solid record full of humorous TV-series and / or movies, you know that you can expect the best of the best again when it comes to this kind of humor.
Finally caught the film last night and I laughed more 5 minutes of this sequel than I did during the others.It was great to see that David Zucker can still make a really funny parody movie.
George Carlin makes a creepy cameo, as does Eddie Griffin and Queen Latifah, but the stars of the movie are the jokes, and they come rapid-fire.The film was designed for an intelligent audience in tune with pop culture, and doesn't take time to explain itself: Simon Cowell gets to judge an 8-mile style rap battle with predictable and hilarious results; Anderson's character sheds more light on the possible depths of the relationship between B.
It isn't quite in the same vein as his one true classic, Airplane!, but it shows how he should stay away from movies like My Boss's Daughter and go back into the spoof genre which got him, and his team, off the ground.The first movie based its main parodies around Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the second was mainly revolved around The Haunting.
In 8 Mile, one of the things I hated about it was how everyone was speaking with huge words; here, parodies of those characters do exactly this.Scary Movie 3 did have some gags that didn't work, especially around the middle of the film.
This movie mainly makes fun of "The Ring", there are some funny jokes here, but for my money the funniest stuff came at the expense of "Signs".
So they have a big following in that community because their comments often 'ring true.' I really liked their work because it gave me double value for all that money I spend on bad movies.But the Zuckers are film comedians, a wholly different species.
Zucker, who's already experienced in making funny parody films such as 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun', directs the third installment this time.
This third chapter deals about Cindy(Anna Faris)who must to protect a kid and relates with his brother,a white rapper(Simon Rex)and the father(Charlie Sheen).Besides investigate strange crop circles and eerie videotapes and shunning an Alian invaders with the intervention of the stupidest President(Leslie Nielsen).Cindy is back ,this time to save America from a plot Alien invasion for world domination.She thwart the plans and saves the kid from a ghostly creature.From the start to the ending the humor and the laughters are innumerable.
The best elements for me are The Ring parodies, each absolutely hilarious, Cindy's visit to Aunt ShaNeequa never fails to have me in tears laughing, the first time I saw that I could barely breathe.Fine performances, Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen and Simon Rex all equally hilarious, great timing.
SCARY MOVIE 3 (2003) * Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Eddie Griffin, Queen Latifah, Simon Rex, Regina Hall, Jeremy Piven, Anthony Anderson, Camryn Manheim, George Carlin, Tim Stack, Darrell Hammond, Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Denise Richards, Ja Rule, D.L. Hughley, Drew Mikuska.(Cameos: Simon Cowell, Master P, Fat Joe, Redman, Method Man, Macy Gray, RZA, Raekwon, U-God) Woefully unfunny chapter of the 'Scary' franchise this time with Faris reprising her role from the first two films as an investigative reporter trying to tie together the possible link of a mysterious videotape ('The Ring') and crop circles ('Signs') with an alien invasion are among those genre films taking aim in this pathetic parody that fails for the most part to elicit true belly laughs (or even a good chuckle) with The Wayans Brothers replaced by ace comedy director David Zucker who surprisingly falters even with his mile-a-minute deliveries and crammed jokes in a sequence deliveries of mostly inane puns, slapstick or the overwrought bathroom humor in place of witty dialogue.
In this case, the plot is a cross between 'The Ring' and 'Signs,' with a few glancing blows aimed at 'The Others,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and, of all things, '8 Mile,' along the way.Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nielson are probably the most recognizable faces in the movie, both being veterans of earlier 'Airplane,' 'Naked Gun' and 'Hot Shots' films.
Frankly, I prefer the gentler, more innocent tone in this edition.'Scary Movie 3' isn't any great shakes as a comedy, and chances are you won't remember a thing about it even five minutes after you've seen it, but it will make you laugh quite a bit for the 80 or so minutes that you're watching it.
All the jokes are bad rip offs of parody movies of the past, and they were not even funny in their original films.Lets hope that this is the last film in the series because I don't know if I could take any more of this..
Unlike the first movie, where only the few scattered moments of cleverness were really funny, or the second which was stupid and lamely written like the writers' crystal meth intake depended on it, "3" has an abundance of dumb jokes - and almost all of them work!
The movie has enough celebrity cameos to fill your average episode of "The Simpsons", a cast ranging from photogenic eye candy in the form of Pamela Anderson and Jenna McCarthy to in-need-of-a-hit actors like Leslie Nielsen, Charlie Sheen and Anna Faris, and even a little rap music to boot (and to please the 11-year old, 50 Cent-loving, white suburban kids).
The film is not ugly to look at, and the various different visual styles and moods of the movies spoofed are well re-created, like the gritty, washed-out photography of the "8 Mile" sequences or the oh-so-ominous music in the "Ring" segments.
Definitely more entertaining than its victims - the ridiculously pretentious "Ring" (2002), the lackluster mess "Matrix Reloaded" (2003), or even "8 Mile" (2002) (which I actually liked) - "Scary Movie 3" is one of my favourite comedies and, in my humble opinion, one of the funniest spoofs ever made.
and, for you older-film buffs, movies like His Girl Friday that lived off the rapid-fire humor.The basic plot has bright-eyed TV reporter Cindy (Anna Faris) breaking a story about mysterious crop circles on a farm outside Washington.
Originally the brainchild of the Wayans brothers comedy team, the first entry in the series debuted back in the year 2000, serving as a wild and raunchy parody of the popular horror feature "Scream." In addition, that first "Scary Movie" also set a new standard in parody, peppering in numerous small tributes, gags and nods to other famed contemporary releases of the genre, going for a counter-intuitive aim at quantity of jokes over quality.
While it still falls prey to the same issues of incredibly forced low-brow gags and contrived situational humor that bogged down the first two entries, Zucker's zany mile-a-minute pacing and penchant for nonstop humor make "Scary Movie 3" one of the better films of the series, with a far better hit-to- miss laugh ratio than pretty much every other entry.
We even get some surprising and very funny cameos from the likes of comedy legends Leslie Neilson and George Carlin, and both steal the show despite their limited screen time.Where the film doesn't quite work is the structure.
This film follows the same main character Cindy who is now a news reporter and basically,we just see her point of view from when she finds out the world is going to be taken over by aliens,being targeted by a evil video tape that will kill you in seven days and other (not so funny) stuff.
Some jokes were funny some were absolutely terrible and i was expecting more from who actually made spoof David Zucker who made Airplane and The Naked Gun. Scary Movie 3 is actually an awful movie but overall it was pretty funny so I can't say it's too bad..
This time Cindy, a news reporter have to face with the killer videotape (The Ring), Alien Invading and Its Crop Circle (Sighs), A stupid white rapper (8 Miles), and prophecy of The One (The Matrix) also little from Michael Jackson (The Others).To me, this is the best of the three, with a decent storyline and making fun of.
So I figured that since it wasn't TOTALLY a production of the abysmal senses of humor of the Wayans brothers, I would give it a shot, and the only good thing that came of it was that I learned once and for all how important it is to consider a film's target audience before paying real money to sit in an entire theater full of them.So, that being said, if you're the kind of person that would really get a kick out of seeing an eight-year-old boy beaten repeatedly about the head, face, and body with a baseball bat, please, go see this movie.
Granted, some of the jokes in Scary Movie 3 are funny, some of the spoofs are done in relatively good taste (although, compared to the rest of the material, that's not saying much), and some of them I laughed out loud at.
Charlie Sheen still has that special comic timing that made the Hot Shots-movies so good, and Simon Rex is pretty funny too.
When her friend tells her that she has watched the tape, Cindy steps up her investigation and starts to wonder if it could be linked to the strange events at a local farm where farmers Tom and George have woken to find crop circles around their fields.I have seen the first Scary Movie and was a little bit put off by how very crude it was and yet also how unfunny large stretches of it and, as a result, I never bothered with the second movie.
The plot works hard to shoehorn the basic plots of Signs and Ringu into the same story, adding a white rapper subplot along the way but if you have come for the story then you will likely be annoyed by it  I, however, had come for the laughs.The humour leaves the crudity of the original movie and uses more standard spoof stuff of silly lines and silly jokes (you know  where the other character gives the speaker a slow double take) which works better as it feels lighter.
Plenty of stuff misses or is too obvious (some of the movie spoofs are too obvious or have been done better elsewhere, vis-a-vie, the architect bit at the mtv awards) but I laughed out loud about 15 times which, hardly the stuff of Airplane is still good enough for this type of film.The cast has some returns and are mostly good.
Faris may be good looking but she is a reactor and screamer at best; Piven is funny but is no more than a cameo but the main trio of Nielsen, Sheen and Rex had most of the laughs for me.I know this is a silly comedy but one aspect of the casting and joking worried me and that was the way that the black characters all seemed to basically fit into the model of cool but angry and able to 'throw down' at a moments notice.
When you rent films like 'Scary movie' you should know what to expect - comedy of situations, continuous series of gags, under-the belt humor, and in this case a lot of quotes  from other films.
Unfortunately, there is no hysterical laugh, but there are a lot of good jokes and funny ideas - like casting Leslie Nielsen as the ultimate US president.
Despite it being a very short movie, it makes you just want to watch it again and again.I'm not sure which was my favorite parody, I think it was either the rap battle where Simon plays George as Eminem in 8 Mile and they had that great cameo of Simon from American Idol.
Of course, everybody knows these kinds of movies always put the best stuff in the trailer, but it's still probably gonna be kinda funny, right?Let me just say that "Scary Movie 3" makes the first two look like "The Godfather" and "The Godfather II".
Having just watched the previous two Scary Movie films, the third in the franchise saw some change with a now PG-13 rating and without the involvement of both Marlon and Shawn Wayans.Scary Movie 3 is quite entertaining throughout spoofing hit films as the Rings and Signs as the main attractive, along with 8 Mile, the Sixth Sense and the Matrix.This film feels not much of a loss without the Wayan brothers, with several good new additions as Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson and Kevin Hart.
It could have been done much much better.5/10Celebrities: Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Charlie Sheen, Anna Faris, Simon Cowell, Denise Richards, Queen Latifah, Leslie Nielsen, George Carlin, Macy Gray + few famous rappers.It parodies: Signs, The Ring, The Sixth Sense, Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Airplane, Scream, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Bruce Almighty..
This time the franchise takes a pop at (horror classic) 'The Ring' and (sci-fi thriller) 'Signs.' The original Scary Movie was primarily lampooning Scream, which allowed the film to follow a single plot line effectively.
You get what you deserve when you decide to watch these movies (Except for Scary Movie 2; nobody deserves that on their worst day) It spoofs things like Signs, The Ring, and even 8 Mile, and manages to connect them altogether.
Scary Movie 3 (2003) * 1/2 (out of 4) The third film in the popular series finds Cindy (Anna Faris) working as a newswoman and discovering a mysterious video tape where if you watch it you get a phone call that you'll be dead in a week.
It's fun to see so many good actors come together in a silly meaningless comedy like this.Even though it's dialed down in terms of crude sex jokes, this movie isn't any less funny than the first, and hands down, it's way better than the second.
The spoofs are so funny with the 8 Miles, Signs, and The Ring being my favorites and the soundtrack in the movie is also pretty darn good.Overall, not as great as the first two, but I really liked it..
Pamela Anderson plays a stupid blond haired bitch, Charlie Sheen plays a pastor without faith and a broken family and the unique Canadian king of comedy Leslie Nielsen plays a hilarious and dumb president of the United States of America that makes me laugh in every scene he is acting, even in the very end and finally enjoyable ending of the movie that is not as dumb and all of a sudden as the ending of the other scary movies.To keep it short, this movie is really entertaining and funny and not only perfect for parties or young kids that think they are very cool that they have watched such a trendy movie but also for the cinematic lunatics that adore the more professional attitude of this movie concerning the enjoyable acting and the new and surprising diversity..
and Naked Gun.Whereas the Wayans brothers envisioned Scary Movie as a montage of unrelated film references added to very puerile humor, Zucker delivers an organic, solid picture, whose plot almost seamlessly combines elements from The Ring, Signs, 8 Mile and The Matrix.
The second and third watchings dull the humour more than just a little bit.If they'd not made 'Scary Movie 2,' and this film held that title, things would have been better.
'Scary Movie 3' is just unpleasant and mean-spirited, styles of film-making that should not be applied to a silly, cartoon-like spoof comedy.Still, even if the film wasn't so depressing it wouldn't be funny because, as I have said, there's no good jokes in it.