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Scary Movie 3 Dir: David Zucker Rated: MA15+ The latest installment of the quite amusing ‘Scary Movie’ series makes last year’s horror films ‘The Ring’ and ‘Signs’ the butt of most of its jokes, and concocts a rather improbable storyline to link the two together. In the ‘Signs’ parody, Charlie Sheen reprises Mel Gibson’s role from the original movie as the ex-priest-turned-farmer who discovers a mysterious pattern in his cornfield (one that, in this film, says "Attack Here" when viewed from above), while ‘The Ring’ send-up features Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall): two characters who appeared in both of the earlier ‘Scary Movie’ films. Sheen’s character, Tom, gets to know Campbell through his brother George (Simon Rex): a man who, despite living on Tom’s farm, aspires to move to the city and make a career for himself as a rapper, a dream that has the movie also taking the piss out of ‘8 Mile’ in quite a few places. This year’s ‘Matrix’ movies also come in for a bit of lampooning, as does ‘The Others’, albeit only in one spot in the case of the latter film. Like its predecessors, ‘Scary Movie 3’ isn’t afraid to be offensive in its (invariably lowbrow) humour, with such risque (if now a little overworked) subjects as paedophile priests and the suspicious sexual proclivities of Michael Jackson being used to evoke laughs. By now, though, people should know what to expect from these films, so it’s probably unlikely that anyone easily-offended will unwittingly go along to this one and be outraged by it. Of the characters who appeared in the earlier ‘Scary Movie’s, the aforementioned Campbell and Meeks seem to be the only two who pop up in this one, although the movie boasts an impressive overall cast nonetheless. Leslie Nielsen, for example, does a hilarious turn as the fictitious President Harris - someone who, given his perpetual vagueness, is doubtless intended to be a parody of Ronald Reagan - while such individuals as Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Ja Rule, and Queen Latifah have small roles. ‘Scary Movie 3’ is quite clever in the way it satirises its targets, and although it wasn’t my favourite of the series (the second movie holds that honour), it proved an enjoyable film nonetheless. A puerile sense of humour is definitely a must when seeing it; those who possess one should find much to laugh about in this movie. |
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