Directed By: Malcolm D. Lee
Starring: Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Katrina Bowden and Katt Williams
What It’s About: A parody of various horror movies.
Rated PG-13 (for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some drug material, partial nudity, comic violence and gore)
Runtime: 86 minutes
By Shelby Clemons, Staff Writer
There are comedies that lightly tiptoe around offensiveness and use quality stupidity to get laughs, and then there is the Scary Movie franchise. Despite reassurance that the other films are much funnier, Scary Movie V takes the title of stupidest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s insensitive and raunchy, and though that may be the purpose of the films, it was only remotely funny. All I can say is I’m so happy for Ashley Tisdale and her amazing post-High School Musical career (sarcasm).
In case you didn’t know, the premise of the Scary Movie films is that they take contemporary films (usually in the horror category) and parody them. The fifth installment casts Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen as the doomed couple in Paranormal Activity and pokes fun at their train-wreck lives. From their odd anti-sex scene on, the movie falls into a downward spiral.
Ashley Tisdale plays the aunt-turned-adoptive-mother of the three children from Mama who were found in a cabin (from Cabin in the Woods). In a parody of Black Swan, she goes back to ballet to take on the lead of a ballet production. There’s not much of a plot to talk about, other than spoofs of films such as Inception and Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the book 50 Shades of Grey. The film also includes celebrity appearances from Heather Locklear, Snoop Dogg, Mac Miller, Sarah Hyland and Mike Tyson.
Sadly, Scary Movie V falls into the well-populated category of “movies whose funny parts don’t make it past the trailers,” and even that’s a stretch. It’s offensive in plenty of ways, taking on racism, raunchiness and violence against women and children. The only times I recall laughing are when I got excited that I guessed what they were parodying and when they made fun of Honey Boo Boo. Other than that, this movie is just a sad attempt at comedy that ends up becoming completely disgusting. Scary Movie V tried, but ultimately bombed.
Courtesy of www.blackfilm.com