"Scary Movie 2" provides ten minutes of laughs

By Morgan Conklin
Summer Reporter

"Scary Movie 2" was the same as most other movie sequels - better off not made.

Though the movie did have some funny parts, most of it was humor that no one seemed to understand.

The whole basis of the story consisted of a group of students- the same from the first movie - who were required to stay in a haunted house as part of a course assignment. While there, they encountered a spirit whom they had to kill. The weak plot was barely held together by a string of parodies.

A few of the recent shows that "Scary Movie 2" poked fun at were "Save the Last Dance," "Charlie's Angels" and "The Weakest Link," along with classics such as "The Exorcist." If you saw any of those, the movie may make you laugh. But without advance knowledge of those shows, "Scary Movie 2" will leave you bored.

Among the few entertaining moments were the Nike basketball shoe ad rendition and the spoof on the unreliability of Firestone tires along with the infamous lost ballots from the recent presidential election.

Aside from those somewhat funny parts, the movie seemed to drag on for an hour and a half with very few scenes worth mentioning.

The movie, in all, seemed to be spliced together with no direction. Many of the scenes appeared as though they were added on after the movie had been completed.

An example of this included Tori Spelling whose unfunny, unnecessary character was on stage for about half of the movie and then disappeared. She added nothing to the film - her character was dull and unamusing - and, although it seemed odd that she was all of the sudden no longer a part of the movie, no one cared. That was just one of the many flaws of the movie worth mentioning.

However, if you choose to go see the movie, it will provide you with a possible 10 minutes of laughter, along with another hour or so of contemplating the reason why you had any desire to see "Scary Movie 2."

In all, the only thing that could possibly be more scary than "Scary Movie 2" would be yet another sequel to the already overplayed movie series.