Review of Scary Movie 5 (2013) by Arijit M — 06 Aug 2013

A line comes late in the film as several people are watching an over-exaggerated dance sequence of The Black Swan - "this is bullshit"! That sums up my feelings too.

A lazy, unfunny, tiresome bore that parodies the Paranormal Activity films along with Inception, Mama, The Evil Dead and others. The opening set up features Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan in bed with an over-exaggerated sex sequence and inside jokes about their recent "public" embarrassments. That goes nowhere. Same for the remaining 75 minutes. This stuff has been done to death and with David Zucker, of Airplane, co-writing the film, it's so sad. The slapstick would shame the Three Stooges; the acting is typically C-rated stars is bad and the 12 minute out-take reel at the end...desperate. Nothing works, just a series of disjointed forced sequences amounting to nothing. Here's hoping this is the last of the Scary Movie franchise.