Scary Movie 2 2001

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The inevitable sequel delivers the same schtick, but it's only fresh by half. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Wanders from joke to joke with not enough narrative -- or blood -- to make it all stick together. Read more

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The film never really regains the opening scene's momentum. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: When did comedy become so lazy? Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Predictable but only occasionally amusing. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Perhaps, in a rare instance of subtle social satire, this film is being released on July 4 to remind America of the high cost of freedom of speech. Read more

John Zebrowski, Seattle Times: Some will find this funny. Some people laugh themselves silly flushing the toilet over and over. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: More boos-and-body-fluid yucks from the Wayans brothers. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The problem is that Wayans and his raft of writers, including his brothers Marlon and Shawn, who are also among the film's stars, begin on such an extreme, in-your-face note that they have no place to go. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It shows no particular insight into the movies or cultural phenomena being mocked. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: This isn't a movie -- it's a vaudeville sketch aimed at the lowest common denominator. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Because there is little scene-by-scene coherence, the story becomes little more than the sum of its 'quotes.' Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The picture wastes barely a second heading straight into the toilet. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Gone is the surprise, the laughter of disbelief that made Scary Movie such a vacation from civility. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Scary Movie 2 isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Aside from a few genuinely funny gags, this motion picture represents an 80-minute exercise into tedium that does little more than re-hash the first outing. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Watching Scary Movie 2 is like Chinese water torture -- you start dreading the next drip long before it drops. Read more

Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: So remarkably shapeless you can imagine Shawn and Marlon hashing out scenes between presenters at last year's MTV Video Music Awards. Read more

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

Mike Clark, USA Today: If you took out all the jokes about bodily fluids, the movie could run five minutes instead of 83, and we could all go home. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: This time Wayans and company don't so much lampoon their targets as ineptly copy them. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing. Read more