Scary Movie
Dimension Films | Release Date: July 7, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
8
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Film.comErnest Hardy
It's very funny and - at times - even witty in a crude, drunken frat-boy-with-an-epiphany kind of way. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
While undeniably silly and violent in a cartoon-like manner, is by and large a hilarious skewering of the clichés of teen pix. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Is it funny? Yes, it is. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The whole thing wobbles, like the garish, trashy, sexy shoes the young folks are wearing this summer on their way (in droves) to movie theaters, intent on abandoning themselves to pleasurable mindlessness. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The jokes are wild, raunchy, surreal and dead-on. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
The scary thing about this spoof of '90s teen horror movies is how funny it is. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
Deadly funny. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Actually quite amusing, thanks mainly to a script that keeps the gags flying so fast that even though so many of them are bad, they're quickly followed by something new, and occasionally something good. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Political incorrectness, gross-out humor, references for their own sake, and some real wit are distributed over the 85 minutes with an unusually consistent sense of timing and proportion, and the tone is just right. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe Leydon
Manages an impressively huge score in the hit-or-miss gag ratio. Read full review
68
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
A raunchy, scattershot, but often hilarious spoof. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Gross, sophomoric, offensive, nasty, cheap and mean -- and so funny again and again that you plumb near forget all that's reprehensible about it. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Its grossness knows no bounds, and you'd have to be dead not to laugh. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Does serve up an inspired gag every once in a while. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The question facing the target audience for Scary Movie is whether the funny bits will be enough of a payoff for sitting through the tedious stuff between them. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
The gleeful teen-horror spoof that proves that the Farrelly brothers have no monopoly on outrageous, politically incorrect comedy. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDana Stevens
If you're amused by jokes involving male genitals, female pubic hair, flatulence and dismemberment, it should be a big hit. Read full review
55
TNT RoughCutJ. Rentilly
Offers, on a drop-by-drop basis, more semen than a Ron Jeremy flick. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
It's easy to be offensive in a movie; it's much harder to be funny. Which is why Scary Movie emerges as such a waste; when you're so good at the latter, why keep falling back on the former? Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Would it be asking too much if the hit-and-miss jokes could maybe nudge an inch beyond the obvious?
50
TV Guide MagazineStephen Miller
Surprisingly cohesive. Read full review
50
Film.comRobert Horton
Destined to be remembered not for its laugh-per-minute ratio, but for breaking a barrier of crudeness in mainstream movies. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Some of the funny stuff is actually funny, some of it is funny and yucky, but most of it is just stupid. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
A big, stupid bull with bodacious tits, but that's not to say it doesn't dish out some lite hardy-hars. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMarc Caro
Usually what you're laughing at is ugliness, and that leaves a foul taste long before the 85 minutes have expired. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Might have been funnier if it had been put together with more care. Read full review
30
Washington PostRita Kempley
The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined to out-gross the other. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Did I laugh? Yeah, I did, half a dozen times. Not a great percentage for a film with something close to 300 quote-unquote jokes. Read full review
25
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate the startling sight of a phallus jammed into someone's ear. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerOther (Specify)
There are a number of funny and unexpected moments in the film, but they are ultimately swamped by the mean-spirited tone and increasingly over-the-top raunch and drug humor. Read full review
20
SalonCharles Taylor
I walked out of Scary Movie feeling as if I'd been whacked around with a two-by-four for an hour and a half. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
I'd rather have a testicular nail-gun mishap than sit through this migraine-inducing train wreck of a film one more time. Read full review
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