A series of gags that indicate the task for the seven writers led by the Wayans Brothers was more enforced labor than creative fun.

| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2024

Scary Movie 2 is indefensible on every artistic and comedic level... yet I will still stand up for its fans.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 26, 2021

Nostalgia can only do so much. Scary Movie 2 is merely a handful of sketches threaded together without any semblance of a plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2021

Faris and Hall are the MVPs of this rushed production that aims for parody, but winds up being a big mess. If you like broad, offensive humour, there are some laughs to be found here, but the jokes miss far more often than they hit.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 7, 2021

Dumb humor, insults and gallons of bodily fluids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The screenwriters take desperate measures with so much lame sex jokes, body flashes, and disgusting bathroom humor.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Scarily awful -- this spoof horror franchise needs a stake driven through its heart, and quick...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Perhaps if you send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope they'll tell us why this was thought to be funny.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 14, 2006

It shows no understanding of or insight into the genre it's attempting to parody, nor indeed of cinema in general.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

We can only hope this excrement masquerading as humor will bury the gross-out genre once and for all.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 23, 2004

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 16, 2004

Basically just a bunch of silly spoof scenes cobbled together around a thin premise, it allows the Wayans brothers to have fun in the way a group of kids might have fun with a video camcorder, except with a multi-million-dollar budget.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

In a classic 'too many cooks' scenario, Scary Movie 2 never manages to put even the semblance of a plot together.

| Aug 17, 2002

The creators of Scary Movie 2 have forgotten one crucial fact about the horror genre--for every Scream 2 there are twenty Blair Witch 2s.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 26, 2002

It's just terrible, with long stretches in which the sea of writers don't even try to insert any humour, followed by an attempted joke that doesn't work on any level.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2002

...it does have one redeeming attribute: brevity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 7, 2002

That the first film's primary target/model was Scream and that this one's is The Haunting says everything about its creative bankruptcy.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 19, 2001

Scary Movie 2 isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2001