Scary Movie was a pretty strange concept in the first place. It spoofed the slasher genre, picking particularly on the Scream series of movies for its inspiration and main target...interesting seeing as Scream was a spoof in the first place. But then I suppose spoofing a spoof IS something new and I actually thought the movie was pretty funny...in a gross, juvenile kind of way. I was rather looking forward to the inevitable sequel but was more than a little dismayed to see it released quite so soon after Scary movie, I had fears that there hadn't been enough time spent inbetween movies for there to have been a decent, really funny script written and went in to watch it thinking that it wouldn't be very good.

Scarey Movie 2 is not a good movie, its not even a good concept which the first 5 minutes will tell you you that. With the Slasher movie genre spoofed to death by the first movie, Scarey Movie 2 turns its attentions to the 'supernatural' genre of horror movies which include such things as The Exorcist and Stephen Spielberg's Poltergeist. Of course we have seen that before in a number of other movies including the Leslie Nielson spoof Repossessed, which was a direct spoof of The Exorcist itself. Scarey Movie 2 then already begins by retreading old ground covered a number of years ago by a better movie, and not needing its grave dug over thankyou very much...

We begin with an Exorcist take and the funniest part of the movie, complete with an iffy priest played by James Woods(is he that hard up for work). Of course the very first gag is Regan urinating all over the carpet so we know exactly what we are in store for. Anyway, the funny bit comes and goes and we are introduced to our band of idiots again who are invited to come to stay in a huge mansion - a mansion which of course turns out to be haunted. Ok, forgive me for interupting the 'plot' again, but it seems to me that the Wayan's decided to base the entire general premise of their movie around...well around that abysmal flop of a movie "The Haunting". Someone please tell me that they couldn't be quite so dense as to spoof a movie which most people who saw it thought was cr*p and the vast majority haven't seen and have no idea what is being spoofed. Well anyway, for most of us its a haunted house and they are invited...and its all very unfunny from there onwards. There really is no need to elaborate upon the plot at all, because whilst writing this review I suddenly realise that infact there really isn't a plot to elaborate on - they just shoved a bunch of weirdos in a house with more weirdos and let them move from one allegedly 'funny' scene to the next. Finis.

The biggest gripe though about this movie is that it simply isn't very funny. A butler's deformed hand is obviously the funniest thing in the world to the directors of this movie and resultantly they have to base 10 or more gags around it. It grabs, it gropes, it gets in the dinner guest's food...it gets on the audience's nerves because we fail to see anything particularly funny in what is effectively a 'hand' no matter how deformed. Once again we are asked to laugh at the disabled as in Scary Movie which is probably meant to shock us by its foray into such bad taste but is frankly quite boring. I have laughed at the disabled before, it was a French movie feature real mongol people, playing their parts and it was damn funny - this is not. Yawn through these scenes and the rest of the laughs are either extremely obvious or based on semen, turds, urination and a variety of other bodily functions either human of animal. Projectile poop from a parrots butt? A human poop in the kitty litter? Oh my aching sides!

The bottom line is that if you liked the original Scary Movie then you just might find a little mild entertainment here, but not a lot. If you were bored, by or simpy hated it then you are going to be even less impressed by this abysal sequel. Personally, I thought it was absolute trash and I actually liked the first movie, definitely 1 star all the way.