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Very good
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Good
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I love that it's comedy and horror together, the perfect match :) Scary Movie 3 sticks with the program: mind-bogglingly dumb characters hustle their way through spoofs of the industry's most popular recent films. It's no mistake that the roasted movies -- in this case: Signs, The Ring, and 8 Mile -- all pull in huge money and attract a young audience. That demographic gets plenty to laugh at during the film's winking intro. Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson play two blond dimwits, mocking the open to The Ring while joking about their real-life infamy, and um, enormous boobs. In true Airplane! style, Zucker gives us a long look at Pam's ample set, giving Russ Meyer a run for his D-cup-per-minute money. The goofy playfulness continues as Charlie Sheen and Simon Rex take a stab at Signs, playing a familiar pair of farmer brothers. When the pair admits that their dogs are "acting strange," Zucker gives us the single funniest visual of the movie, a throwback to some of the most absurd and creative moments of his memorable parodies. While Scary Movie 3 has its amusing moments, the movie never nails it that well again. Zucker and the writing team (including Kevin Smith and the prolific Pat Proft) do their best to balance the giggles between dialogue and slapstick, with both used to fine effect during a rap showdown sequence. Too often, though, the movie leans on the physical stuff too hard -- so hard that fighting becomes the mode of humor. Queen Latifah gets into it with the spooky chick from the The Ring, as do a few other stars in the film's incredibly thin 78 minutes. It gets a little old. Zucker may be a semi-legend, but he hasn't directed a parody in 12 years, and he gave us My Boss's Daughter. Scary Movie 3 does push through, and often succeeds, thanks to the silly energy of its cast. Anna Faris leads the charge (she's been in all three movies) as the perfectly ditzy know-nothing, Simon Rex is a charming numbskull, and dependable Leslie Nielsen shows up to play the President. Zucker even throws him a famous line from Airplane!, pleasing those of us that have seen that classic too many times. Months (weeks?) from now, Scary Movie 3 will make for great group viewing at home, but considering it worthy of a full-price ticket may be a stretch. You may, instead, want to bone up on other films in order to get all the jokes in Scary Movie 4. Or you can enjoy what you get, knowing that many of us laugh every time some poor idiot gets kicked in the nuts. On the (3.0) DVD you get an alternate ending (let's just say it involves Simon Rex and an overgrown green guy), half an hour of deleted scenes, outtakes, and a handful of making-of bits. A feature-length commentary from Zucker and crew rounds out an excellent disc. The 3.5 DVD offers more of the same, only raunchier.Read full review
Parody movies are always of the type 'love or hate' it. I am not intellectual, I love cinema as culture, but also as entertainment, so I like them. Further, when I see this type of movie, I know exactly what I am going to see: scatological jokes, funny and surrealistic situations and definitely a movie that will never be indicated for an Oscar. I found this 'Scary Movie 3' very funny. It satirizes mainly 'The Ring', followed by 'Signs', and part of '8 Miles' and one of these last two 'The Matrix' sequences. The last scene is a joke with 'Final Destination'. This is the type of movie that you must shut down your brain and start laughing. There are two scenes that I liked very much: when the moron George (Simon Rex) is in a club for Afro-Americans, wins the rap competition and covers his head with the hood of his coat. The other one, when Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) uses her laptop and many screens pops-up. In many sites, even in IMDb, there are some pops-up screens that irritate me. What I do not understand is some comments of persons that should never watch this type of movie. What do they expect to see when they go to the movie theaters or buy / rent a DVD of 'Scary Movie 3', directed by David Zucker and with Leslie Nielsen in the cast? An art movie, with hidden messages, an epic, a classic or a film with politically correct jokes? Honestly, if I did not like this genre, I would never spend my time watching it. My vote is seven.Read full review
You'll die to see these rings! Fresh from college, Cindy Campbell is now a roving TV reporter who sets out to find a news story among global developments including killer videotapes, prophecies, crops circles, talentless white rappers and Michael Jackson... Great trilogies come in threes and this third instalment of the Scary Movie series is the funniest yet!
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