Summer's been and gone,and back to Uni on 22nd/9!I'm getting a computer this year,and will be living...
Summer's been and gone,and back to Uni on 22nd/9!I'm getting a computer this year,and will be living in a house so may be able to keep up with ciao!Just found out i've got my own column in the University Magazine next year,so chuffed about that!
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The tag-line to the sequel that was never supposed to be made was "MORE MERCILESS. MORE SHAMELESS". One along the lines of "LESS PLOT. MORE DISGUSTING SPOOFS" would probably have been closer to the mark. Each movie take-off, or spoof, is tied together by the thinnest of plots, and exists merely to allow these disgusting and often distasteful (but sometimes laugh-out-loud too) scenes to be acted out.
The plot, although not really the focal point of the movie, revolves around the survivors from last year's "Scary Movie" going to college and consequently becoming involved in a school project to investigate sleep patterns which takes them to a old, haunted house for the weekend. The teacher is the quintessential Englishman and perennial bad-guy Tim Curry (remember Cluedo?!), and his upper class evilness is a breath of fresh air amongst so many slapstick performances.
The film is regularly funny, often hilariously funny, if you don't take the jokes too seriously. The film was not written with the faint hearted in mind,
and the more delicate of you will probably not find the physical, often gross humour to your liking and you will probably be offended. Take the 18 certificate as heed enough that the swearing and use of sexual content is plentiful. But, if you find physical slap-stick, projectile vomiting, toilet humour and other emissions of bodily fluids (I'll leave those to your imagination!) on a grand scale, then you will be heartily amused for the 82 minute duration, which is mercifully short, believe me.
The spoofs come thick and fast, and range from the staple horror genre films such as The Haunting, What Lies Beneath and the especially funny Exorcist (the quaint family singing Gangsta Rap songs around a log fire is priceless!) to more obscure choices such as Titanic (replace holding hands with holding a more erect body part and some hilarious dialogue to match), Charlie's Angels and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Some work alot better than others, but the ones that are effective are worth holding out for.
The acting talent ranges from the relative unknowns such as Anna Faris who plays one of the main teenage student parts, to the more seasoned professionals such as James Woods (who stars as "the exorcist" at the start and becomes involved in an extremely crude toilet scene). We even see a small appearance from ex-Beverley Hills 90210 star Tori Spelling, who in her 30's is looking slightly wrinkly to be STILL playing a college student. Her performance is fleeting and involves having rampant sex with an invisible poltergeist. Nice.
The film both stars and is co-written and directed by brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans. Marlon plays the nut-case student well, and comes across as mentally impaired to some comical effect. Shawn plays a more plain-faced role, his only complete slapstick moment being to wrap his unfeasibly large "manhood" around an evil clown in a pastiche from horror film "It". Marlon's best moment is when he is wrapped into a mansize spliff by a giant cannabis plant and smoked!
However, the best performance comes from an offensive parrot who sits on his perch shouting profanities to anyone who happens to pass by. Chris Elliott also performs brilliantly as the digitally-disabled butler. His small, deformed hand is constantly used to comic effect; on one occasion he offers to carry Cindy's (Anna Faris) luggage with his "good hand", which was of course his bad hand, so it would purposely fall open to reveal her underwear which he duly sniffs! His deformity is constantly referred to, so anyone who is offended by parodying physical disabilities should also be advised not to watch.
Tim Curry's assistant is also disabled, being wheelchair bound, and this is also exploited. He constantly refers to figures of speech such as "I'm going to go out on a limb" or "I'm going to stand up and be counted" which are a rare moment of script-writing comedy aside from all the slap-stick comedy which consumes the bulk of this movie.
This film will never be winning any prizes for its script, its acting or its direction, but it as a piece of throw-away film making to watch if you're feeling brainless and up for a laugh, then it's probably a good bet. The plot is thin at best, and the comedy spoofs seem to amble uncomfortably from one to another with nothing binding them together. The film ends with everyone, of course, escaping from the house and returning to college. The comedy spoof film peaked with the Naked Gun trilogy and have never been bettered since. Scary Movie 2 goes along way to exemplify this point. With a cast of young and inexperienced actors and a team of 7 first-time script writers, we couldn't really have expected much more.
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Production Year: 1984 - Horror - Director: Joe Dante - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Judge Reinhold, Corey Feldman
Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
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even more irreverent fun than the original! Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans and Anna Faris lead a stellar cast that takes extreme pleasure in skewering Hollywood's ...
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All of your favourite Scary Movie characters are back in a hilarious sequel that scares up ... more
even more irreverent fun than the original. Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie, Requiem For A Dream), Shawn Wayans (Scary Movie, Don't Be A Menace...), and Anna Faris (S...
Advantages: This is hilarious - if you're of the juvenile persuasion. Disadvantages: This is terribly offensive, disgusting, and occasionally delves into sacrilege.
Sarah_B 31.03.2002 (31.03.2002)
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