Scary Movie 2

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Scary Movie 2
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
Produced by Eric L. Gold
Peter Schwerin
Bob Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein
Brad Weston
Sue Jett
Barry Rosenbush
Tony Mark (Co-exec.)
Written by Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Greg Grabianski
Dave Polsky
Michael Anthony Snowden
Craig Wayans
Starring Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Anna Faris
Regina Hall
Chris Masterson
Kathleen Robertson
David Cross
James Woods
Tim Curry
Tori Spelling
Chris Elliott
Andy Richter
Richard Moll
Veronica Cartwright
James DeBello
Music by Ceiri Torjussen
Rossano Galante
Tom Hiel
Mark McGrath
Marco Beltrami
George S. Clinton
John Debney
Danny Lux
Cinematography Steven Bernstein
Editing by Thomas J. Nordberg
Richard Pearson
Peter Teschner
Distributed by Dimension Films
Release date(s) United States
July 4, 2001
New Zealand
September 6, 2001
United Kingdom
September 7, 2001
Australia
October 18, 2001
Running time 83 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $45 million (est.)
Gross revenue $141,220,678
Preceded by Scary Movie (2000)
Followed by Scary Movie 3 (2003)

Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 American comedy film and is the second film of the Scary Movie franchise.

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[edit] Plot

The sequel to Scary Movie begins with a parody of The Exorcist, in which Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out. The exorcism doesn't go as planned, and a chain of The Exorcist-like vomiting occurs. Megan insults McFeely's mother and he shoots her in the head.

One year later, Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans) and Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayans) are at college, trying to live new lives, after the events in the previous movie. (Although all of them died in Scary Movie, in a deleted scene, Brenda says her death was a near death experience, and Cindy was never officially declared dead.) Cindy and Brenda get tagged by a dorky girl, Alex Monday (Tori Spelling); Ray, who is still confused by his sexuality, has two new friends, Tommy (James DeBello) and Buddy (Christopher Masterson); while Shorty is still the same stoner he was in the last movie.

The story begins when a college teacher, Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his wheelchair-bound assistant Dwight (David Cross) plan to study the paranormal activity at Hell House, with the clueless teens as bait and for Oldman to get action with the college girls. Newcomer Theo (Kathleen Robertson) also becomes part of the study group.

When Cindy arrives at the Hell House, she meets a talking Amazon parrot who is vulgar and slanderous, and the caretaker, Hanson (Chris Elliott), who has great people skills and a genetically malformed little hand. After some weird incidents on that night (Cindy being beaten up by a cat, a toy clown attacking Ray after he had sex with Brenda, Shorty getting attacked and smoked by a weed-monster, and Alex having sex with a ghost and it "humps" her (However, later the ghost attacks her after saying she gave him crabs.) The teens finally learn about the professor's plan and try to escape the mansion.

The professor gets killed by a female ghost with disfigured features as the ghost of Hell House's owner, Hugo Kane, seals all exits of the manor to prevent the surviving occupants from escaping. Realizing that killing the ghost is the only way out, the teens are equipped with several technological devices by Dwight that serve to harass and injure the spectral enemy. They are pursued all throughout the mansion. Cindy is chased by an undead skeleton and Brenda rips his bones. Shorty meets the ghost who killed the professor but puts a paper bag on her face and has sex with her. Hanson gets possessed, and Cindy, Brenda and Theo parody Charlie's Angels to get him, but end up beaten up. Eventually, they use Cindy as bait to lure the Kane ghost to a device that ultimately destroys him.

Two months later, taking care of the parrot though he despises her for talking too much, Cindy and Buddy are in a relationship and go out on a walk until Buddy disappears without notice as she looks up to see Hanson serving at the hot dog stand. She screams "No!" while Hanson screams "Yes!". Hanson is instantly hit by a car driven by Shorty, who is receiving oral sex by the female ghost...with a bag over her head to hide her facial deformities.

[edit] Parodies

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  • Paulie - The talking parrot near the beginning of the film and near the end.
  • The Exorcist - The entire opening sequence.[1] Also the girl who is possessed is called Megan, while in The Exorcist the girl's name is Regan.
  • Harry Potter - When Buddy shows Cindy the book "Harry Pothead"
  • Nike Commercial - The dancing/basketball sequence
  • Hollow Man - Cindy and a badly injured Buddy being locked in the freezer and they must escape. The thermo-goggles and guns are an exact replica that the characters used in Hollow Man (Exception being that the guns shot darts instead of energy). In the deleted scenes, Cindy spreads blood on the floor to track the ghost's footprints. Also, Cindy makes a bulldozer out of packing tape, aluminum foil, etc, which is similar to the scene in Hollow Man where the main characters build an electromagnet in a freezer.
  • Godzilla - The scene when Cindy is fighting the cat when he moves in slow motion and roars like Godzilla.
  • The Shining - Scene locations. In the extras, the cat can be seen chopping the door and peeking in, as done in The Shining.
  • The Haunting - The character Theo; The main premise of a group unknowingly being used as a research group while staying in a haunted mansion. The ghost in "The Haunting" is Hugh Crain, where the ghost in this movie is Huey Kane.
  • Urban Legend - Cindy singing badly in the car, a parody of the first death in Urban Legend
  • Poltergeist - The clown underneath Ray's bed. The marijuana plant that comes in and captures Shorty and turns him into a giant joint and smokes him. The scene where Alex is having sex with the ghost on her bed and walls (also, her shirt read 69, when in Poltergeist, the shirt read 65). The clown sequence is both a parody of Poltergeist and Stephen King's It.
  • Poltergeist II: The Other Side - The caretaker, Hanson, is a parody of the character Reverend Henry Kane, the cult leader in "Poltergeist II". In addition, the name of the family home, Kane, also references "Poltergeist II". Hanson also sings "God is in his Holy Temple" the song that Kane sings in "Poltergeist II".
  • Hannibal - When Shorty is about to have his brain eaten.
  • The Changeling - The ball bouncing down the stairs.
  • The Legend of Hell House - The attack of the black cat.
Parody of Charlie's Angels
  • Charlie's Angels - When Cindy, Brenda, and Theo go hand-to-hand combat with Hanson. Tori Spelling's character, Alex Monday, is a spoof of Lucy Liu's character in Charlie's Angels, Alex Munday.[1]
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - During the "Charlie's Angels" scene.
  • What Lies Beneath - Scene with Cindy in the red dress, seducing the professor, then turning into Ray. Cindy confronts the Professor in the kitchen and tells him that she thinks his wife is starting to suspect something. In deleted scenes, Cindy is almost drowned in a bathtub.
  • Pet Sematary - The cat attack and the slow piano theme when the cat came in.
  • Bones - When Professor Oldman follows the lady ghost through the cave similar to the scene on Bones
  • The Amityville Horror - The scene where the priest is covered with flies during the exorcism.[2]
  • The Weakest Link - The parrot says "You are the weakest link, goodbye" after Alex falls unconscious.
  • Dude, Where's My Car? - The tattoo scene with instead of "Dude" and "Sweet", it's "Ray" and "fucked me".[1]
  • Rocky - Cindy boxing the black cat in slow motion.
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show - with Tim Curry (who portrayed Dr. Frank N. Furter) as the Professor, Hanson resembles Riff Raff, and Dwight is confined to a wheelchair (Dr. Scott)
  • Dirty Harry - The quote "Do you feel lucky punk?"
  • Save the Last Dance - Shorty shows Cindy how to be cool
  • Wild Wild West - When Hanson and Dwight exchange insults, in the form of puns, this parodies the exchanges between West and Loveless.
  • Stephen King's It - "It" is written in blood on the wall of the root cellar where Shorty is hiding. The professor played Pennywise The Dancing Clown in "It". A clown doll tries to attack Ray under his bed but Ray instead rapes the clown. The clown doll scene is both a parody of Poltergeist and Stephen King's It.
  • Mission: Impossible II - Dwight's wheelchair duel with the ghost mimics the motorcycle chase from M:I-2. During the duel, a flock of doves flies between the combatants, parodying John Woo's signature shown in many of his movies.
  • Beetlejuice
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street - When Alex is having sex with the ghost, she climbs up the walls and onto the ceiling, strongly resembling the first kill from a Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors- The skeleton that chased Cindy.
  • Little Shop of Horrors- When Shorty's plant cracks out of its pot.[2]
  • Friday the 13th - The map to get to the mansion shows Camp Crystal Lake; the character Megan Voorhees shares the same last name as Pamela, the killer from the first movie in the Friday the 13th series, and her son Jason, from the rest of the series.
  • Titanic - When Buddy and Cindy are locked in the freezer, Cindy said the same words that Jack said to Rose when they were in the cold water. "Don't say your goodbyes, you're not gonna die here. You're gonna die an old man but not here", "Coming to this house was the best thing that ever happened to me", and "I'll never let go." Another thing to mention is during this scene Titanic theme music is playing.
  • There's Something About Mary - The sign on the back of the bus which reads:

How Am I Driving?
Call
1-800-Kiss My Ass

  • Clue - Tim Curry plays a mysterious man who gathered a group of people to a house under false pretenses, ending in deaths. The house in Clue was called "Hill House," versus "Hell House."
  • Alien Resurrection- When the marijuana plant gets sucked out the window, similar (though less gory) to the death of the "Newborn".
  • Thir13en Ghosts - The final sequence when Kane is using the machine, similar to the same machine used to collect the souls of the thriteen restless ghosts.
  • Twister - During the Charlie's Angels sequence, Cindy creates a twister and a cow flies around the room. This is similar to the waterspout sequence in Twister.

[edit] Reception

In the U.S., the film grossed $71,308,997. Worldwide, it grossed $141,220,678. Although being a hit, out of the four Scary Movie films, this is the least successful to date.[3]

Despite its box office success, it was not as well received by critics achieving a rotten 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes[4] and a generally negative score of 29% on Metacritic.[5]

[edit] Cast

  • Tori Spelling was originally cast as a Lead Character. In the directors cut of the film, she was featured in almost every scene. However, a dispute between Spelling's representatives and Miramax over a nude scene that Spelling didn't wish to do caused Miramax to cut a considerable amount of Tori Spelling's scenes out of the final finished film. So much, in fact, that it causes errors in the film. In a scene where all the cast is present standing in a line with Spelling on the end, suddenly Spelling is unexplainedly absent. This caused speculation that Miramax was angry with Spelling over the nudity dispute and reduced her role to a cameo.

[edit] Production companies & distributors

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "IMDb Trivia". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257106/trivia. Retrieved on 2008-03-14. 
  2. ^ a b "IMDb Movie Connections". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257106/movieconnections. Retrieved on 2008-03-14. 
  3. ^ "Scary Movie 2 (2001)". http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=scarymovie2.htm. 
  4. ^ "Scary Movie 2". Rotten Tomatoes. http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/scary_movie_2/. 
  5. ^ "Scary Movie 2". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/scarymovie2. 

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Preceded by
Legally Blonde		 Box office number-one films of 2001 (AUS)
October 21		 Succeeded by
The Man Who Sued God
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