Cindy Campbell moves in next to Tom Ryan to take care of an old lady. But the house where the old lady lives is haunted by some freaky little boy, so Cindy heads to The Village to find out who killed him. At the same time, Aliens attack, and Tom has to flee with his children, and together with Cindy and her pal Brenda try to figure out a way to stop the aliens from invading the earth.
Scary Movie 4 was an unfunny 83 minute experience, that had some jokes that worked, while most of them did not. It starts off with Dr. Phil being chained to one leg and has to cut it off in order to escape the cellar which Jigsaw holds him prisoner. Instead he cuts off the wrong leg, and while that was supposed to be funny, it turned out to not be very funny at all, and so it was a bad beginning for something that turned out to be a bad movie.
Shortly after we get to meet Cindy Campbell who we've gotten to know from the previous three movies. She meets Charlie Sheen and get to witness him commiting suicide a la Bill Pullman in The Grudge. It's slightly different though, but I don't want to spoil anything for potential viewers. After that, Cindy heads over to start her new job taking care of an old lady in a haunted house. There we get to see a lot from The Grudge, but it doesn't work too well. The house where she's working is next to Tom Ryan's house, and the two fall for each other. But love has got to wait, since aliens are attacking, and Cindy needs to find out why the ghostly boy is haunting the house she works in.
She heads over to The Village with her friend Brenda (Regina Hall from the three previous flicks as well), and starts investigating why the boy was killed. At the same time, Tom has to battle aliens, or actually try to flee from them, and Cindy later hooks up with him to help him out to stop the alien invasion.
We get to see a lot of parody of movies like Saw and Saw II, The Village, The Grudge, Million Dollar Baby, Brokeback Mountain, but most of all War of the Worlds I think. I thought the two first movies had some really hilarious stuff in them, and I guess that was because of the Wayans Brothers. The third movie came from David Zucker, the same man this fourth installment came from, but while the third one was quite ok, this time around it just didn't hit the spot. Some of the jokes did work, but most of them did not, and even if the movie's not that long, it still felt somewhat like a waste of time.
I'm happy this was the final chapter, because this time around it didn't work at all and started to get really boring. It has a few things that works, and that's why I'm giving it a 3, but other than that, it kinda felt like a waste of time.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: David Zucker
WRITING CREDITS: Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Anna Faris, Craig Bierko, Regina Hall
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 83 min
RATING: 3/10
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