A Quick Look Back at "Scary Movie 5" - The Very Low Point of the Franchise
- Matt Palmer
- 6 hours ago
- 2 min read
Initial release date: April 11, 2013
Streaming services: Paramount Plus/Pluto TV/various PVOD services (as of this review)
Plot: The parody follows a couple, Dan and Jody, who take in Dan's recently abandoned nieces and nephew. As they experience paranormal phenomena, they must fend off a demonic entity while navigating Jody's bizarre ballet career.
I am in the process of catching up on my bonus reviews for the website! So, there is more to come!! A couple weeks ago, I went though the entire "Scary Movie" franchise - including the recently release "Scary Movie 6." The reviews are also currently available on the site!
Now, it's time to quickly gather my thoughts on this 2013 sequel "Scary Movie 5," the very low point of the franchise. I have tried watching this in its entirely numerous times but could never get through it. Now that I FINALLY watched it fully, this sequel really misses the mark!
Without the franchise stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall (and of course the Wayans), the entire new cast severely lacked the comedic chemistry that made the earlier movies work - even the fourth movie a little bit. The fifth movie pretty much features a few juvenile fart jokes and characters constantly getting it either in the head or groin and it just gets really old very fast.
The only moments of the movie that are actually kind of funny are the Charlie Sheen/Lindsay Lohan opening sequence since they make fun of their own troubles and the Snoop Dogg/Mac Miller cameos in the beginning. Another thing that didn't work in this sequel is that the parody drifted away from making fun of horror, Sure, it parodies, "Black Swan," "Paranormal Activity" and "Mama," yet it randomly forced in parodies of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Inception" and "Fifty Shades of Grey." As I am putting this together, I just remembered that they did a sort of half-ass parody of the Evil Dead" movie from 2013 that was in theaters barely a week before this movie came out.
"Scary Movie 5" received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and fans alike (it's currently at 4% on Rotten Tomatoes). Widely considered the weakest entry of the franchise, it was panned for lazy slapstick, uninspired parodies of movies like "Paranormal Activity" and "Mama," and the absence of the original stars.
MPA: Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some drug material, partial nudity, comic violence and gore (runtime 86 minutes)
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