Scary Movie 4 (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by David Zucker
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Actor: André Benjamin, Anna Faris, Bill Pullman, Craig Bierko, Regina HallDirector: David Zucker
Brand: Wellspring Media INC
Writer: Aaron Seltzer
Writer: Buddy Johnson
Writer: Craig Mazin
Writer: Jason Friedberg
Writer: Jim Abrahams
Writer: Marlon Wayans
Writer: Pat Proft
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
Published: 2006-08-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 79465
Studio: Weinstein Company
Product features:
- TESTED
DVD Reviews of Scary Movie 4 (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: There is more comedy here than in the trailers, but not by much
Summary: 3 Stars
"Scary Movie 4" is getting dangerously close to that dreaded territory where if you have seen the trailer you have seen all of the good parts of the movie. Just as the trailer indicates, this 2006 comedy brings together parodies of "Saw," "The War of the Worlds," "The Grudge," "Brokeback Mountain," "The Village," and "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and one of the things I actually liked about the film was how there is an actual narrative framework provided from the way these are put together. But then we get around to doing the parodies of the films and that is where the proceedings begin to loose steam, go down hill, jump the shark, and otherwise start stinking up the place.
We begin with Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil playing out the "Saw" game, the abridged version of which is in the trailer and commercials, and then get to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan in "The War of the Worlds" storyline and Anna Faris back again as Cindy Campbell in "The Grudge" part of the proceedings. From her time in "The War of the Worlds" she hooks up again with Brenda (Regina Hall) and they get sidetracked in "The Village." But when you are playing with a Steven Spielberg movie that gets to be your template and we are back for that at the end with "Oprah" providing the epilogue. "Brokeback Mountain" is a brief seque for Anthony Anderson as Mahalik and Kevin Hart as CJ, although their bit in the bar that is a parody of nothing as near as I can tell is a whole lot funnier. Aye, there's the rub.
If you have not seen all of the movies in question then our ability to identify, let alone appreciate, the parodies in question is clearly in doubt. Too many of the jokes are funny only in the context of these parodies and not on their own merit. This comedy is directed by David Zucker, which simply underscores why this movies is not as funny as you would think that it should be. The first film that Zucker directed was "Airplane!", which remains for my limited amount of money the funniest movie of all-time (defined operationally by how many times it made me laugh). That was a take-off on airplane disaster movies without engaging in wall-to-wall parodies of specific films. Yes, there are moments that remind us of "Airport" and "The High and the Mighty," not to mention "Saturday Night Fever," but Barbara Billingsley speaking jive, Peter Graves discussing gladiator movies with the young boy in the cockpit, and whatever Stephen Stucker is up to throughout the film, have nothing to do with parodies and they are all hysterical moments.
Watching Carmen Electra as the blind Holly have an extremely noisy bowel movement in public is not something I would consider hysterical, but actually she has a better part in the movie than Chris Elliott, who is totally wasted as Ezekiel in this film. The same can be said for the character played by Michael Madsen, from whom I would expect a lot more than what the screenplay by Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams, and Pat Proft, not from the main movies that are the targets here but some of Madsen's choice roles from the likes of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill, Volume 2." Leslie Nielsen is certainly game to run around naked at the age of 80, but that is hardly the basis for a strong recommendation either.
Description of Scary Movie 4 (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
The Scary Movie gang is back for their funniest, most fearless installment yet. -Starring Anna Faris & Regina Hall (previous Scary Movie films), Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, Airplane), Carmen Electra (Cheaper by the Dozen 2)Some comedy is like a scalpel; the Scary Movie series is a hand grenade, spewing bodily fluids and big-breasted women in all directions as they lampoon the latest horror. In Scary Movie 4's case, the main targets are War of the Worlds, The Village, The Grudge, Saw, and Tom Cruise jumping all over Oprah's couch (the scariest of the lot). Along the way, potshots get taken at non-horror fare like Brokeback Mountain and Million Dollar Baby, as well as obvious targets like Michael Jackson and George W. Bush, among others. Anna Faris (Lost in Translation) and Regina Hall (The Honeymooners) return as the central characters wandering through a crazy quilt of horror scenarios, joined by Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man) doing a dead-on parody of Cruise at his most manic. Cameos include everyone from Charlie Sheen to Shaquille O'Neal to Carmen Electra. Some of it's funny, some of it's not, but there's a generally buoyant zaniness that comes from director David Zucker, one of the creators of Airplane!, which started the whole firehose-of-jokes aesthetic. --Bret Fetzer
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