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For what it's worth, there is some significance to the "Scary Movie" franchise, first started way back in 2000 by the Wayans to mock horror films such as "Scream" and "Friday the 13th." It spawned a series of like-minded, god-awful spoof movies like "Epic Movie," "Disaster Movie" and "Date Movie." Now there needs to be a movie to mock the mocker, a "Scary Scary Movie" of sorts. The first Wayans-produced "Scary Movie" had some raunch appeal, but when the Zuckers (of "Airplane" fame) took over, it watered it down to a thin series of woefully unfunny, star-stunt casting cameos spoofing the latest series of horror films. This installment (the first one in 7 years, as if we really needed another) everything from "Mama" and "Paranormal Actvity" are spoofed as well as other non-horror films like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," Black Swan" and even "The Help" (a baffling, desperate move considering the premise), and featuring most of Hollywood's second and third string, including Ashley Tisdale, Bow Wow, Heather Locklear, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews and even Kate Walsh, not to mention the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen mocking themselves in the ridiculous prologue (a bad sign: Regina Hall, who's appeared in the previous four films, even stayed away from this one). A pitiful excuse for a movie, it's as horribly unfunny and a tremendous waste of time as you might think that's only watchable as to how they staged the gags themselves, not that they're actually funny. These films are generally box-office hits as many audiences find guilty pleasure in watching a comedy train wreck such as this. If this is your thing, go for it and see "Scary Movie 5," but you'll wish you hadn't. The biggest scare of them all? There could be a sixth one.
Wes's Grade: F
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