Scary Movie

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Year Released: 2000
Rating: 2.0

Certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt - a lot of it is quite funny, and I did laugh out loud more than once, but there were a lot of times I didn't - the (approximated) ratio: one funny for every six not - and cringed more than I should have at some of the comedic ineptitude. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans is a smart guy, and his past films have been entertaining, but this is really, really unnecessary stuff, a spoof of a spoof, and its choppy how-do-these-excursions-fit-in-to-anything editing (simply to take a random cheap shots at this person or that film) wears you down, as do the two irritating leads. The opening bit with Carmen Electra is clever - sadly the rest is not.