Welcome to 2K Replay, the home of the year 2000 in Film. This week I’m revisiting a movie I saw multiple times in theaters and probably will never watch again: Scary Movie.
• Best Scene/Moment: For all the calories spent trying to make me laugh with pop culture references, weed jokes, gay-panic material, etc., the thing I found most amusing today was a shot of a water gun race urinal game where men pee at a bullseye to make the horses run.
• Best Quote: “Hey girl! Ah, I’m in the movies! Uh-huh, yeah, Shake-a-speare in Love!”
• Best Song: “All About U” by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and Dru Down. It plays in the background of one scene.
• Director Check: Scary Movie was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. This is his commercial peak as a director, which gave him the chances to direct Scary Movie 2, White Chicks, and Little Man later. He hasn’t made a feature film since 2006. His best movie remains his directorial debut: I’m Gonna Git You Sucka. I’ll give some appreciation also to A Low Down Dirty Shame, which isn’t a good movie but has a villain turn by the Djinn himself, Andrew Divoff.
• Double It With This 2000 Movie: Dude, Where’s My Car?
• Year 2000 Movies to Trailer Before It: Big Momma’s House, The Ladies Man, Little Nicky
• Draft Day or Scary Movie? Draft Day
• Grab Bag Video:
This is the trailer block from VHS rental copies of Scary Movie, including previews for Dracula 2000 (really bad), Double Take (really really bad), Imposter (never saw it), Gone in 60 Seconds (pretty bad), Shanghai Noon (fun), Boys and Girls (fascinating), a Scream series box set (1 & 2 amazing, 3 is real bad), and the soundtrack to Scary Movie (not even if it were free).
• How Did It Rent at Blockbuster? It did okay. People seemed to have gotten their fix during theaters or were fans enough and bought it instead of renting it.
• Mall Movie? If there ever was one.
• Only in 2000: The entire movie.
• Scene Stealer: Regina Hall steals every scene she’s in because she created a character who’s funny instead of trying to simply “be funny” like some of her co-stars. Anna Faris has some moments, too, but it’s not prime Faris.
• 2000 Crush: Carmen Electra
• 2020 Crush: Regina Hall
• What I Thought in 2000: I loved it. It rewarded me for knowing the references thus validating me for consuming pop culture.
• What I Think in 2020: This might be the movie from the year 2000 that holds up the least. I didn’t hate watching it now but there was really nothing there for me anymore. It made me wonder if the movie was just that much of its time or audiences had poor taste when it came to Scary Movie twenty years ago.
I saw this in the theater, even though at the time the only slasher movies I'd seen were Scream 1 & 2. I mostly did not understand the references, but for some reason at the time I did find it funny and even legit scary in a couple spots.
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no desire to revisit, but it is certainly a fun time capsule to reflect on from the start of the millennium.