Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s

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According to The Guardian’s report, Scary Movie review – spoof comedy returns but maybe it should have stayed in the 2000s, Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to Sinners The Scary Movie series has always depended on timing. Not necessarily in its gagcraft, which has oscillated between occasional sharp jabs and many beyond-broad blows, but in its position on the release schedule. This was especially true of the first installment, which arrived in theaters just a few months after the 2000 release of Scream 3, capitalizing on the new wave of slashers while holding a spoofy Viking funeral for that just-concluded trilogy. A quarter of a century later, horror endures and there’s no reason to think spoofs can’t endure in parallel along with it as Backrooms and Obsession have ruled the early summer box office . The sixth Scary Movie, repeating the first movie’s unnumbered title as a simultaneous nod to and a

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