The problem with Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer was that they had different directors. So the fact that Scary Movie welds together the Kevin Williamson screenplays for those films was overlooked by most reviewers. I mean, darn, even the title is Williamson's original title for Scream.
Williamson's films were themselves parodies of the genre and the Wayans have decided to do a rather less subtle parody, a gross-out version.
I like to work a bit harder for my laughs but Scary Movie does have funny moments and enough spunk to carry the audience's goodwill past the less funny moments. It is maybe worth seeing once but it isn't funny enough or original enough to bear repeated viewing.
Williamson's films were themselves parodies of the genre and the Wayans have decided to do a rather less subtle parody, a gross-out version.
I like to work a bit harder for my laughs but Scary Movie does have funny moments and enough spunk to carry the audience's goodwill past the less funny moments. It is maybe worth seeing once but it isn't funny enough or original enough to bear repeated viewing.