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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 18010
Released: May 11, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In a spoof of recent popular horror movies, reporter Cindy investigates the recent appearance of crop circles, a killer video tape, and a possible alien invasion.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of Scary Movie 3 (Widescreen Edition):
This freewheeling parody tosses horror movies, Eminem, The Matrix, and much more into a cinematic blender. Scary Movie 3 centers around Cindy (Anna Faris, Lost in Translation), a bubble-headed young newscaster who believes that a deadly videotape has some mysterious connection to the aliens who've been making crop circles in the cornfield of a local farmer (Charlie Sheen, Young Guns), whose brother (Simon Rex) hopes to win a local rap contest. Along for the ride are Queen Latifah, George Carlin, Anthony Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Jeremy Piven, Camryn Manheim, Ja Rule, dozens of rap stars, and Leslie Nielsen as the President of the U.S. No need to have seen the first two Scary Movie flicks--though a few of the characters recur, the movie leapfrogs from gag to goofy gag, plundering The Ring, Signs, and The Others as needed. Silly and slapdash, but with a decent dose of laughs. --Bret Fetzer
Scary Movie 3 (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
"I just ran him over with the car when I drove in! Everyone you love around you is dying!" 
2008-08-24 - This is actually my favorite movie in the Scary Movie franchise. It could have been better, I will admit, but Charlie Sheen and Simon Rex make this movie, as does the usually funny Ana Faris. Anthony Anderson and Kevin Hart are also Hilarious! Leslie Nelson is pretty good in this, too, but I'm a Leslie Nelson fan, so I'm partial to his work already.
This is where the parody movies should have ceased, at least for a while so that writers could put a GOOD script together... The spoof movies that followed (Scary Movie 4, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc.) have been simply AWFUL!
Movie necer gets old 
2008-06-07 - I watched this again lst night so much cmedy its ridculous love it to death!
The Best of the Series
2008-05-30 - If you like to laugh and like scary movies this one is for you. The best scene is any scene with Charlie Sheen. He is a comic genius
Great Laughs
2008-03-26 - I needed a laugh when I found this movie on TV and had to rent it. It lampooned so many movies that I remember well, including Airplane. Charlie Sheen and Leslie Neilsen are spoof movie staples and they didn't disappoint this time.
SCARED SILLY
2008-03-15 - For those who aren't acquainted with the SCARY MOVIE series, make a point of looking up the first two and watching them before seeing this one. It won't make this one clearer but you will get an idea of what to expect.
Begun by the Wayans brothers, the series of films spoofs the resent upsurge of horror films filling your local multiplex. This time around the Wayans have moved on. But in their place is one of the creators of this subgenre of film, David Zucker. Along with his brother and Jim Abrahams, they took the spoof format a whole new direction wherein every statement uttered by a character could and would be taken the wrong way. Beginning with KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE and then moving on to AIRPLANE! and the NAKED GUN series of films, they have made some of the funniest films around. And this one falls in line with the rest.
So okay, what do you need to know before seeing this one? Make sure that you watch THE RING, SIGNS, EIGHT MILE, MATRIX RELOADED and THE OTHERS before seeing this film. If you don't you'll miss many of the jokes going on here. Along with many other sight gags, these are the main films focused on for attack. And if you haven't seen those films, stop here until you do because while talking about this one you'll find spoilers for those.
The film revolves around Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), two characters to carry on through all three films. Now working as a television news reporter, she investigates a strange crop circle that has appeared in a local field. Through this investigation she meets George (Simon Rex), the brother of the farm owner Tom (Charlie Sheen) and a love interest is sparked.
The strange goings on at the farm form one portion of the plot. The second flows around a video tape that once viewed results in an immediate phone call stating that you will die in 7 days. Cindy has watched this tape and is seeking a way to prevent this from happening. And somewhere along the line, the two stories converge.
Okay, this sounds so serious how can there be anything funny about the two stories or the things that happen to the people involved? Easy. The movie pokes fun with scenes nearly lifted from the original movies. One seen in the previews has Tom finding a white dressed figure in his daughter's bedroom ala THE OTHERS. When he questions who it is, the figure claims to be his daughter. When he lifts her veil, it turns out to be none other than Michael Jackson, who claims he didn't do anything to Tom's daughter because she's a girl.
To describe more scenes in this movie in an effort to explain where the humor comes from would result in nothing more than ruining the jokes found throughout. Face it, once you know the punch line the joke just isn't as funny. I recall seeing BLAZING SADDLES long after its initial release. The scene with the horse being punched out that so many had told me was funny offered no laughs at all for me. So if you want to know more from this one too bad. Go see it.
So what did I think of the movie now that I've gone on and on about what to expect? I thought it was one of the funniest films I've seen all year. Some of the moments were crude or pain inducing for a character, but they each were so overboard that they could inspire nothing but laughter (i.e. a kid who seems to get hurt from beginning to end).
This is a definite popcorn flick, one that requires the viewer to not become so involved that he has to study each frame of film. It's one that is meant for the viewer to sit back and guffaw at from the first segment (involving stereotypical blonde bimbos Pamela Anderson Lee and Jenny McCarthy spoofing not only THE RING but themselves as well) to the last.
While I've read a few reviews that have lambasted this film calling it stupid and little more than brain candy all I can say is hey...what did you expect? That is exactly what this movie is and more power to it! Amid the serious disease of the week films, the social crusade films, the pure message films, the blood and guts films, there needs to be something to cleanse the palette and just enjoy without thinking. If that's what you need this week, then make a point of seeing this one. You'll get the laughs you're looking for.
