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Scary Movie 3 Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen
Director: David Zucker
Synopsis: Third installment of the popular spoof series, this time focusing on mysterious crop circles and a videotape that kills anyone who watches it. (Dimension)
Runtime: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for pervasive crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and drug references.
Genres: Comedy, Horror
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Scary Movie 3 (2003)(Widescreen)
The good thing about David Zucker's scattershot satires like Top Secret!, Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad, and Airplane! is that the gags come so fast that if one of them falls flat, you won't have to wait long for a funny one. Unfortunately, with Scary Movie 3 you may be waiting awhile for the good ones; about one gag in five seems to connect. Farmer Tom (Charlie Sheen) is dismayed to find crop circles mashed into his Virginia corn field, and even more upset to find that one "crop circle" spells out the words "Attack Here." Meanwhile his dimwit brother George (Simon Rex) furthers his career in hip hop by going to a rap off, in a scene copped directly from 8 Mile, of all things. Unfortunately the pointy hood on his warm-up jacket causes an unfortunate "wardrobe malfunction" in front of the predominantly black crowd, and George winds up tossed out a window. Meanwhile, ambitious TV reporter Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) is hungry for the big scoop on the crop circles, and falls for numbskull George in the process. Stir into the mix a videotape that kills people within seven days after watching it and broad slaps at The Ring, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, and a half dozen other movies (as well as bit parts by Queen Latifah, Pamela Anderson, and even American Idol's Simon Cowell) and you've got a fairly incoherent mess of a Zucker satire. And of course, no Zucker movie is complete without an appearance by Leslie Nielsen (who's beginning to dodder a little); time time around, he has a supremely ridiculous turn as the President. Story has it that six writers were shanghaied for Scary Movie 3 (never a good sign), and apparently the writers wrote gags on the backs of business cards, put them all into a fishbowl and drew them all out one by one.

That's not to say that there aren't some laugh out loud moments in this sequel, but they are scarcer than in past installments. For instance; Charlie Sheen holding a Michael Jackson look-a-like out of a window and screaming, "How do you like it?" or Sheen saying "The dogs are acting strange" as wiener dogs ride around in Roman chariots and drive tractors. But then again, horror movies have largely been pretty bereft of fresh ideas for the last 10 years, so the genre's a sitting target for spoofs.

The disc's special features include a set of deleted/extended scenes (most of which were wisely edited out of the movie), a director's commentary track—which is occasionally funny and revealing, but mostly redundant—and a brief "making of" documentary that doesn't shed much fresh light on the movie. Scary Movie 3 is an OK time waster and has its moments of sophomoric yuks, but largely it's a matter of spanking a horse that, if it's not dead, it's certainly on its last legs. Enough already.

— JERRY RENSHAW




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