Scary Movie 4 is so lazy it's downright boring, something not even a naked Leslie Nielsen (!) can salvage.

| Original Score: 0/5 | May 6, 2006

Watch (sober) at your peril.

| May 6, 2006

What makes it to the screen feels pretty joyless.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 20, 2006

Thin on plot even by spoof standards, Scary Movie 4 runs like clockwork for 80 minutes. It's a movie strangely lacking in both comedic highs and lows.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 19, 2006

The jokes miss more than they hit, but there are a lot of them, and when they work, it's gold.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2006

The entire film is predicated on turgid slapstick bits that simply congratulate viewers for having seen a handful of recent studio blockbusters.

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

Scary Movie 4 never takes you close to death by laughter, as the Naked Gun films did. But it's funny enough to turn the hands on your watch much more quickly than you can believe.

| Apr 14, 2006

The even numbers don't favor the Scary Movie franchise. Inspiration ran dry for the Wayans Brothers in No. 2; now successors David Zucker & Co suffer gag fatigue following up their moderately improving efforts on the third installment.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2006

Scary Movie 4 is the second to be directed by Airplane! and The Naked Gun's David Zucker and possibly the funniest one yet.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Much of the humor feels tired and unfunny, and David Zucker's directing sags where it should zing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Scary Movie 4 isn't a comedy classic, but it's still about five times as funny as Scary Movie 3.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2006

A throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks onslaught of potty jokes, puns, celebrity cameos, J-horror, and j-high sophistication and wit. You get laughs, but not nearly as many as you'd hoped.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

There are relatively few laughs -- unless you crave toilet humor -- in this direct-to-video-grade installment.

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

There's only so much humor left to wring from the pup tent of Brokeback Mountain or the matted-hair fetish of the Japanese horror genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Four installments later, the horror-movie jokes have gotten broader, grosser and just plain dumber.

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

Don't let the number scare you: Scary Movie 4 is spooferific.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Frighteningly silly, intentionally incorrect and stupendously stupid, Scary Movie 4 skewers everything in its path with a wild-eyed glee that's contagious.

| Original Score: B | Apr 14, 2006

Scary Movie 4 is the rare movie spoof that's actually better than the titles it lampoons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The three preceding Scary Movie films were all bad, yet, nevertheless, better than this.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 14, 2006

The perpetual engine of the unkillable Scary Movie chain is toxic cynicism.

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