29
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
1(4%)
mixed
10(40%)
negative
14(56%)
Showing 25 Critic Reviews
80
The Wayanses can be crude beyond crude, but they're so clever that their inventiveness takes the place of taste.
60
Most of it is incredibly, gleefully crude and tasteless, but it is also good-natured and harmless, and there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself laughing.
60
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing, and for fans of the demented comedy of Elliott and Cross, or the thespian chops of Woods (a last-minute replacement for an ailing Marlon Brando), it's worth putting up with humor that's the filmic equivalent of a big, spit-soaked raspberry.
50
It's a formula and hard to describe as good in any artistic sense, but the viewers who pay to see it -- and many, many people are going to -- will get exactly what they want.
50
Just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards.
By Loren King
FULL REVIEW 50
An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
50
A satisfying hatchet job on the spooky -- or as the Wayans see it, kooky -- world of supernatural pictures.
50
A pure Frankenstein flick -- ugly, profane, terror-inducing, clumsy, nasty, desperate, stupid, contemptible, horny and brought to life by schlocky, shoddy science and an electric wish to prove that its makers still matter.
50
Scary Movie 2 had seven writers. Seven. That's one writer for every big laugh in its stealthy 82 minutes. More frightening: these jokes are worth waiting for.
40
All-out burlesque rather than spoof from the outset, the film becomes less and less amusing. Wayans has a wild zaniness that can be hilarious, but how many bodily function jokes, ultra-crude sexual innuendoes and quite a lot of men and women simply punching each other out can one movie endure?
