The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This series had really begun to show its age at this juncture. This wasn't completely unfunny, but it had many rough moments to ultimately make this a failure in my opinion. After Charlie Sheen's amusing scene in the opening, it took a turn for the downward in a big way. Stuff like Brokeback Mountain (Poorly done by Anthony Anderson & Kevin Hart) War of The Worlds (Has its moments, but not nearly enough of them) Saw (I dug Shaq & Dr. Phil cameo's. I admittedly got a kick out of that) Million Dollar Baby (Meh. This was so, so. Simon Rex has a cameo as George. He was in the previous Scary Movie)and The Village also gets spoofed with a funny turn by Bill Pullman. Even Tom Cruise's now classic meltdown on Opera is spoofed (Which was way over the top and not even remotely funny) Anna Farris & Regina Hall show up, but the magic of the duo has worn off a bit. They try their hardest, but it doesn't help that they have to work with such poor material for the most part. Craig Bierko makes for a poor replacement for Simon Rex. This is a lot raunchier than the stuff in Scary Movie III, but it's not as amusing either. Scary Movie III was imperfect as well, but I laughed on quite a few occasions. Here; the laughs were scattershot and didn't happen all that frequently.Final Thoughts: I'm not gonna tell you to avoid it. It does have a few laughs, but most of this movie consists of tired, juvenile jokes, and proved to me that this series is starting to wear very thin on me.4/10

The Scary Movie series is notable because in spite of universal hatred from critics and many harsh reviews on IMDb, it continues to be successful enough to keep on keeping on. I have enjoyed all the Scary Movies; they are what they are, and if you just don't like silly, offensive, juvenile humor at least a little bit you aren't going to like any of them. But they are always a fun bag of pop culture humor and cruel pratfalls.As with all the films in the series, the humor is hit and miss. Some things I found very funny, like the running gag of terrible parenting, and some I could have done without, like the final Tom Cruise parody (which, unlike most of the humor, will make no sense to anyone not familiar with the original interview). Overall I felt that, while the lows weren't any lower than usual, the highs weren't quite as high. It is often laugh out funny, but it's rarely hysterically funny. But what can I say, I always have fun with these.

David Zucker - he is the most well respected spoof writer/director out there (with Friendberg/Seltzer being the least respected). He is most known for Airplane and The Naked Gun series. These Scary Movie movies are nothing short of giving crappy horror films the same humour and spoofing style as Airplane and The Naked Gun, the first 2 were done okay-ish but this one and the third one hit the humour right on the head.The movie's plot doesn't really matter, you just watch it for laughs and if you look at comedy movies that way you will say this one is the best. I don't know why the third one of this series reigns superior it just has something to it that isn't in the other three (I don't know because it's a long time since I've seen it).The Saw spoof was nothing short of hilarious - I haven't seen Saw but that was just genius as far as dumb comedy goes. The overall impact of this film is that I like it - it's the second best out of the series.

Day 30 Of My 31 Days Of Horror Double Review Part 2.Director David Zucker returns with the Scaryy Movies with Scary Movie 4. The film follows Cindy played by Anna Faris who notices that an alien invasion is going to destroy her hometown. The films main parodies are War Of The Worlds Saw Saw II and The Village. Not as fun as the 3rd but still a lot fun with a very funny scene involving Charlie Sheen.Rated PG-13 For Crude And Sexual Humor Throughout, Some Comic Violence And Language.Theatrical: 1hr 24min/84min. Unrated: 1hr 31min/91min.1 use of the F-word.**1/2/****