Movie Review: Scary Movie 5

Scary Movie 5
Starring: Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Katrina Bowden, Terry Crews, Heather Locklear, Charlie Sheen, Snoop Dogg
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Dimension Films, USA, 2013

Charlie Sheen dies after a wild night with Lindsay Lohan. Two stoners (Snoop Dogg and Mac Miller) find a cabin in the woods where Charlie's kids live and have gone feral. Dan (Rex) and his wife Jody (Tisdale) adopt the children and move in Charlies house. Jody gets a job in ballet and Dan works as ape researcher.

Creeepy doll

Look, someone painted an evil symbol on the wall

Evil demon Mama starts to haunt the house. Housemaid Maria tries to ward off the evil spirits using various rituals. Dan fires Maria for being too weird. Jody and her ballet friend Kendra (Ash) go to the cabin to search for a book for exorcising demons. Jody has to fight Mama and save the kids from her.

Kendra and Jody reading news of the cabin

Housemaid taking a sip from baby's bottle

Pop cultural products spoofed are Benny Hill Show, Paranormal Activity, Mama, Cabin in the Woods, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Black Swan, Inception, 50 Shades of Grey and Evil Dead.

Juggling demon

The previous Scary Movies weren't good either (I skipped part 4) but this is a very bad film and not in a good way. The director Lee has directed some okay comedy films, for example Undercover Brother (2002) was quite funny parody of blaxploitation films. However with this movie he competes with the notorious Friedberg & Seltzer duo for setting new lows for spoof films. The jokes in Scary Movie 5 range between boring and disgusting, relying mainly on toilet humour and sex jokes.

Rating:  Terrible