 Critics are using the term "unfunny" a lot to describe the Wayans Bros.' latest film, Scary Movie 2. Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe & Mail adds a few adverbs, calling the film "continuously, seamlessly, effortlessly unfunny." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post remarks that the film "is so desperately unfunny that you wish someone would sue for false advertising." Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer asks, "How unfunny is this parody sequel? Frighteningly so." Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times does credit the filmmakers for delivering "on the 'No Shame, No Mercy' threats from the original. Unforunately, it all adds up to 'No Good,'" he writes. Loren King in the Boston Globe dismisses it as "just a bunch of spotty sketches slapped together that will satisfy no one except the diehards." But Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times, while noting that "free-and-easy filmmaking has a way of sliding into the merely slapdash, and that's what seems to have happened here," nevertheless concludes, "youthful audiences may not care." |
