![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly, the film attempts to parody the gag about the teenagers comparing their situation to other films – “Didn’t this happen in some other film?” to which someone replies “Yeah, Scream.” The joke is moronic because it is unable to think of anything else to do but refer to its source and in so doing show up just how much Scary Movie is slavishly copying Scream. ” It might have been funny except for the fact that Scream 2 (1997) did the exact same send-up of the gag using Showgirls (1995). Keenen Ivory Wayans attempts to parody the “What’s your favourite scary movie?” gag in the opening sequence and has Carmen Electra reply “ Kazaam. Scary Movie is even less imaginative when it comes to parodying Scream‘s movie in-referencing. ![]() There is a scene taking off the group pact in I Know What You Did Last Summer – “I suggest we agree to forget about this and never talk about it again,” whereupon the two girls turn to each other “You mean just like the time we got drunk and ate out each other’s pussies?” When we reach the end of the film and, instead of any surprise revelations, all that Keenen Ivory Wayans does is produce exactly the same two suspects that Scream did and then have a scene that goes on forever with either one chickening out of being stabbed by the other, the result is staggeringly inane. Thus we have a scene with a girl caught in an automatic garage door – but the joke is meant to be that it is a fat girl. Keenen Ivory Wayans’ principal idea is to take a scene from Scream and then find some lame way to add a scatological joke. The plot copies Scream scene for scene at times but in such a deadening way it seems more like a photocopy than a parody. Scary Movie is even cruder when it comes to its film parodies. Keenen Ivory Wayans’ jokes are only dick jokes, people getting stoned jokes, gay jokes, coarse language jokes – even a gag where one victim gets dispatched by a penis through the ear! Parodying Scream’s Ghost Face ![]() Scary Movie may have become one of the comedy hits of the 2000 summer season but it is an amazingly crude and vulgar film. Wayans has clearly intended Scary Movie to fall into the same sort of Mad Comics movie parody filmmaking defined by the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams of Airplane (1980) and The Naked Gun (1988) fame. Keenen Ivory Wayans had previously directed films such as the blaxploitation satire I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) and A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994). Scary Movie is directed by actor/stand-up comedian Keenen Ivory Wayans. And that puts it in the sad position of being a parody of a parody. Right from the outset, that leaves Scary Movie with an astounding inability to see that the target of its would-be satire was a send-up in the first place. What Scary Movie fails to realize is that Scream was construed as a parody of slasher films – it comes chock-ful of in-jokes, references and send-ups of the cliches of films like Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980). Unfortunately, one’s mind hits a dead stop when you sit down and think about a film that sets out to do a parody of films like Scream. ( Scary Movie was in fact the pre-production title used by Scream). The two particular targets of its satire are Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the most successful of the 90s slasher movies. Scary Movie is a parody of the spate of 1990s slasher movie revivals. ![]()
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