Scary Movie 3 2003

Critics score:
36 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: There are worse comedies, but few more pointless. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... this genre is pretty much dead. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: The laughs are so far apart and offer so few comic calories that it might be time to stick a fork in the franchise. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: [David Zucker] still has the eye, ear and metabolism of a hyperactive child weaned entirely on candy bars and educated by Mad Magazine. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's last year's satire, wearing this year's clothes. Read more

Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Scary Movie 3 blows more opportunities than the post-season Braves. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The last 15 minutes of this movie feel as sleepy and uninspired as the last 30 of any recent episode of Saturday Night Live. But the movie has given up long before that. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Consistently entertaining and frequently hilarious. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Despite one of the year's best trailers, this horror-film spoof is as laugh-challenged as the woeful first sequel. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: If you don't think Mother Teresa commemorative bobbleheads are funny, this movie is definitely not for you. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A hit-or-miss affair, but the gags that connect really connect. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Under Mr. Zucker's direction, Scary Movie 3 ends up being neither the lowball spoof its predecessors were, nor the sort of madcap farce for which Mr. Zucker is famous. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Too often even Scary Movie 3's cleverest bits degenerate from affectionate satire into mere imitation of their sources. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Crass, crude and sledgehammer- subtle. Yet, you can't help giggling yourself stupid, even at the more obvious sight gags. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The funniest and possibly sickest entry yet. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Plays like 80 minutes of Naked Gun rejects. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Naked Gun 33 1/3 wasn't the final insult from a founding ZAZ (Zucker/Abrams/Zucker) member; this is. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is filled with famous and semi-famous faces, although only two of them work for their laughs and get them. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: There are a few laughs in Scary Movie 3, but most of the content is hopelessly dated. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's the ideal comedy for 12-year-old boys of every age and gender. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's all been there, razzed that, with long flat valleys stretching beneath the comic peaks. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Zucker's slapstick may have the satiric delicacy of a chainsaw lobotomy, but it hasn't harmed the franchise. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: A sequel funnier than its predecessors. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage. Read more

David Ng, Village Voice: Rebounds nicely from its sophomore misfire, giddily inbreeding the plots of a half-dozen box office overachievers-from The Ring to 8 Mile -- until the result assumes a comically unstoppable life of its own. Read more