Scary Movie
This is almost an actual parody, ZAZ-style. It doesn’t hit as hard when you know the originals. It aged extremely poorly, and Weinstein produced this.
You never forget about Harvey Weinstein jacking off behind the scenes, he even cross promotes Shakespeare in Love. He is playing both sides, he produced fucking Scream AND I Know What You Did Last Summer.
This is just an excuse for Harvey to jack off into potted plants, get some playmates and the girl from Jack Frost into skimpy clothes, and mock black people and gays.
It starts off as a direct Scream parody, with direct references (photocopy of a photocopy, yadda yadda), but there’s also I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jennifer Love Huge Tits). It’s really a mix between both, the pre-credits Playboy Playmate is called Drew, and the hot girl in the group is called Buffy, the whole plot about the stupid cop who fucks around with reporter. Other horror films only deserve passing references, like Candyman, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense. The Matrix too, for some reason. And all the references to other Weinstein properties, the absolute sleazeball.
Marlon Wayans is purely annoying, it almost reaches minstrel show levels. His brother Shawn as the closeted gay is also stupid. Anna Faris’ career was destroyed for nothing. How does Regina Hall gets from this to One Battle After Another?
There’s some glorious jokes, but those are few and far between.
- “My friend Sean was giving this party. You know, Puff Daddy”. Then proceeds to describe a freak off (sans baby oil).
- Amistad II as a Titanic ripoff is hilarious.
- The theatre scene starts off annoying, then turns into one of these. She is just being a whinny black stereotype, but then the rest of the audience goes full on Murder on the Orient Express on her, a pair of butch lesbians stab her for ruining Thelma and Louise, a cop for The Fugitive, a rabbi for Schindler’s List, a Buddhist monk for all Jackie Chan films, Mother Theresa for Boogie Nights (!), and a bishop for Big Momma’s House.
- That Prince joke requires you to know Carmen Electra was one of his backup dancers. That’s a deep cut right there.
There also stupid jokes that flop. A fat girl trying to get through the garage pet door. So many fart jokes.
Others that just fall flat, like turning into Dawson’s Creek for a couple seconds.
Then there are the ones that are just offensive. Like when black people don’t know their fathers. Date Rape. Throwing around the R-word. Parroting fascist lies about transgender “sports”. Condoms dimming pleasure.
You can almost see what happens. ZAZ gets two jokes, the Wayans brothers get to insert some race humour, then Weinstein and company come and shit all over it. Goddamn it.
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