6.2 | / 10 |
Users | 3.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
This hilarious, must-see comedy smash places Carmen Electra, Marlon Wayans, Jon Abrahams, and some of today's hottest young stars in a wickedly funny send-up of today's most popular horror movies! A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody! With Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Wayans, and Cheri Oteri adding sidesplitting performances, there's nothing to fear in this scary movie ... unless you're afraid of laughing too much.
Starring: Jon Abrahams, Rick Ducommun, Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth, Anna FarisComedy | 100% |
Horror | 85% |
Teen | 48% |
Dark humor | 20% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: LPCM 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbps)
English SDH, French, Spanish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Scary Movie, the Wayans brothers’ spoof of 1990’s teen horror flicks such as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer is an over the top and in your face farce that has some laughs, but this comedy has not aged well. The gags are all too boorish, too obvious, and too “in the know”, to really stand the test of time, in my opinion, and this is coming from someone who thought this was funny – way back in 2000.
The now iconic image of the serial killer from Scary Movie
Presented in high definition 1080p in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and encoded in the AVC/MPEG-4 video
codec for this Blu-ray Disc release by Disney/Buena Vista, Scary Movie looks pleasing
enough for this sort of film, and certainly far better than any DVD release, but it is not without its
flaws.
Flesh tones are less than accurate, and throughout the presentation there are places that show
some evidence of edge enhancement. There are some slow motion grain compression artifacts
that show up on flat background images such as walls, and more so on metallic images, such as
the scene in the kitchen when Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) is on the telephone whilst the killer is
in her house – the stainless steel refrigerator in the background shows some obvious artifacts.
There are also some spots where shadow details get just a little bit lost. On the plus side,
foreground details are brilliant, particularly in the many well-lit daytime scenes.
There are four audio options available for this release; English 5.1 uncompressed PCM (48kHz/16-
bit), English, French Dolby Digital 5.1, and Spanish Dolby 2.0.
Listening to the 5.1 uncompressed PCM soundtrack, all dialogue is clear, and sounds are well
placed, but the overall mix is stagnant, with not much in the way of discrete information placed in
the surrounds. Ambience is kept to a minimum giving the soundtrack a rather dry, almost
claustrophobic presentation.
The extras for this release do not amount to much and are nothing really to speak of. There are
three trailers, all in high definition,
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
The Invisible
six additional scenes (standard definition; 4:3; window-boxed), and the original theatrical
trailer for Scary Movie (standard definition; 4:3). There is also a Behind the Scenes
featurette in which they speak to the cast and all three of the Wayans brothers about the making
of Scary Movie that doesn't really add any insight or value to watching the film. None of
these extras will need to be viewed more than once.
With only slightly above average picture and sound quality, and jokes that were humorous once upon a time, I can recommend this Blu-ray disc release from Disney/Buena Vista for those desperately seeking some mindless entertainment as a rental only.
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