Product Details

• Actors: Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, Anthony Acker, Mark Barrett, Richard Bellos
• Directors: Keenen Ivory Wayans
• Writers: Aaron Seltzer, Alyson Fouse, Buddy Johnson, Craig Wayans, Dave Polsky
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Dimension Films
• DVD Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (345 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003CY57
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,072 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Scary Movie 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

• This is item 2 in The Scary Movie Series.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Wayans Brothers return with another horror-flick parody, this one taking shots at The Exorcist, Hannibal, and House on Haunted Hill, along with non-horror fare like Charlie's Angels. In addition to gags (and I do mean gag) about innumerable bodily functions, there are slyer jabs at Thomas Jefferson and Raging Bull. As in Scary Movie, the strongest humor comes from making fun of the inane behavior of characters in horror movies. Assisting Shawn and Marlon Wayans are Anna Faris, Kathleen Robertson (in the Carmen Electra role, providing the T&A), and David Cross, as well as Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott, James Woods (as an exorcist with bowel trouble), Andy Richter, and poor Tim Curry, who probably never thought his career would come to this. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

All your favorite SCARY MOVIE characters are back in a laugh-packed sequel that scares up 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 (SCARY MOVIE) lead a stellar cast that takes extreme pleasure in skewering Hollywood's most frightening feature films and spoofing popular culture! Also starring Regina Hall (SCARY MOVIE, LOVE AND BASKETBALL), Christopher Kennedy Masterson (TV'S MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE), Tori Speling (TV's BEVERLY HILLS 90210) ... plus Tim Curry (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), Chris Elliott (THE NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS), and James Woods (ANY GIVEN SUNDAY), nothing's sacred and anything goes in this outlandish must-see comedy hit!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to what the critics have to say!, September 29, 2001

By	Peter A Griffiths (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews

Hi, I'm from the UK and I'm not sure what US critics think of Scary Movie 2, but the UK critics hate it. I don't though, I thought it was better than the first movie ( which is my favourite comedy ) and it's a brilliant movie.
The first scene featuring their re-make of the Exorcist had me laughing so hard as well as everyone else in the cinema. The undertaker is also a funny character with his disfigured arm which adds many scenes of laughter.
Sure, the plot is kinda weird but it's very funny and mocks those films we love including "Hannibal, Charlie's Angels, House on Haunted Hill and Mission Impossible 2". The scene where Cindy and her new love interest are trapped in a walk-in freezer (Hollow Man) mocks that tear-jerking scene in Titanic (where Leo and Kate are freezing in the water) and made me laugh very hard.
So, anyway, go and see it and I'm sure you'll love it. I will definitely buy the DVD of it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Reasons Why This Project Didn't Work, July 18, 2001

By	Matthew (Minneapolis, MN, USA) - See all my reviews

Being the Scary Movie fan that I am, I didn't hesitate to see the sequal. Finding myself laughing at about 5% of the jokes, I started to wonder why this movie didnt work like the first one did. I came to a couple conclusions.

1) You cannot make a film in less than a year. It is literally impossible. The Wayans brothers had less than a year to write, produce, film and edit this movie. The result? A rushed, unfunny, big dissapointment. I think if they waited at least 6 months to a year, they would have made a more successful movie. They would have also had oppurtunities to spoof huge summer movies like Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, The Mummy Returns, AI, Tomb Raider, or Cats and Dogs (which beat ot SM2 opening weekend.) They should have taken their time.

2) You cannot use the same jokes twice. If you've seen the movie you will be able to determine which jokes were repeated. Not is it only unfunny, it also makes the audience dissapointed. Why pay money to see a joke they could have watched 10 times on their DVD at home? It just doesn't make sense.

3) You cannot leave parts of the story left untied. I left the theatre without relalizing what happened to any of the characters. There was no story, no characters and no conclusion. It was just attempted jokes loosely connected with more attempted jokes. I have a real hard time liking a movie when I had no idea what happened in the movie.

4) You cannot spoof unsuccessful movies. While they spoof such high-grossing movies like The Exorcist and Charlie's Angels, people relate and then they laugh, a mixture for success, right? Right. Spoofed jokes aren't as funny when your spoofing House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting (which were both far from mainstream) or even Hollow Man (which was avoided by so many)

Overall, I was very sad that I wasted eight dollars on this movie. It had potential and if they would have done many things differently, this movie may have been a huge success. I wanted so bad for this movie to be good, but as we once heard from the Rolling Stones, "You Cant Always Get What You Want." Shucks!

1.5 outta 5

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a horrible, jumbled, UNFUNNY mess of a movie, July 15, 2001

By	Josh Bozeman (Evansville, IN) - See all my reviews

Big question for the second installment, of Scary Movie, which, I might add, part one- I loved...how long did it take them to write this? A half hour? If it took longer than that, I was fooled. It is amazing how horrible a comedy can be, and I think this one might just take the award for the worst ever. Unlike part 1, there was no coherent story. Granted, the plot in part one wasn't totally solid, but in part 2- it wasn't there at all. It seemed more like a series of skits that made no sense together, and none of them were funny at that. The same old jokes used in the same exact way. Some of the jokes in this movie were IDENTICAL to the jokes in part one...the "sex" scene being one of those. Same fire hose like spray of liquid knocking the very annoying Faris down. That's another thing...if that girl wasn't annoying in the first, in this one- she is so annoying you just want someone to strangle her to get her out of the movie. I am very disappointed in the writers and everyone involved in making the film, because it seems like they thought they had to automatically make a part 2 to make some more cash, and they clearly thought it had to be made, edited, and released within a few days...that's what it looks like. This is a horrible mess that has maybe 2 funny jokes, and the rest is just gross out humor...unlike the first, this gross out humor is not funny, just gross. Miss this one at all costs. 1/10