Scary Movie 5

Released in 2013 under the direction of Malcolm D. Lee ("Undercover Brother") on a budget of $20 million with distribution from The Weinstein Company; "Scary Movie V" is the long-delayed sequel to the once-popular "Scary Movie" comedy franchise.

It's often rare to find movies that become acceptable to hate in the general public, whereas most people will cry foul and put themselves on the front line to defend the movie even if it's not all that great (see "The Phantom Menace"). Then there are movies that become socially cool to hate and any defenders are just ignored or laughed at for even trying to (see "Twilight"). That's where we come to the Scary Movie franchise, a series of parody films mocking whatever movies are popular, generally horror films as the title suggests. From "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" to movies like "The Haunting," "Signs," "Saw" and "War of the Worlds."

Between you and me, the "Scary Movie" films were better when the Wayan Brothers weren't involved in the directing or writing of these movies and those positions were filled in by "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" writers David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Pat Proft. "Scary Movie 5" was stuck in development hell for years following the slew of terrible parody films from former Scary Movie writers, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ("Epic Movie," "Meet the Spartans," "Disaster Movie") as well as numerous cancellation dates and recasts, thus is comes as no surprise that many of the films referenced are from 2010.

Dan (Simon Rex), an ape researcher, and Jody (Ashley Tisdale), a wannabe rock star turned ballet dancer, are a happily married couple who adopt Charlie Sheen's three children found in a cabin in the woods by Snoop Dog and Mac Miller. Taking them to live in a suburban home, the couple begin to notice strange and supernatural things occurring. To find answers, the couple employ a con psychic, a Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike and a magical book that turns people into zombies who threaten to swallow your soul

"Scary Movie V," to put lightly, is like going to a party with someone who tells jokes that they think is relevant when it's not anymore. 

That's this movie. 

Half of the jokes aren't funny and even when the movie does find footing to tell a funny joke, it jumps to another reference that has no relation to the movie or the genre it's satirizing. Why is Christian Grey in this movie? No real purpose or reason, he's just in here because "Fifty Shades of Grey" is popular right now.

I admit to chuckling to a few instances of physical comedy, but most of the time, I found myself just sitting there munching away on my popcorn (which was $13.95 with the drink by the way, thank you AMC) expecting to laugh but just couldn't find much to laugh at. It'll probably get some laughs out of some teenagers, but take it from me, it's worth waiting till OnDemand has it availble.

Final Rating: 2/5