Metacritic Movie Ratings
Scary Movie 4 Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 58

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  And as ever, the jokes are a jumble of the gross, the baggy, the raunchy, the mistimed, and - every once in a while - the refreshingly incorrect.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  The fun of Scary Movie 4 is that it isn't a movie at all. Organized on the principle of parody, not plot, driven by gags and cultural feedback, it's an exercise in lowbrow postmodernism, a movie-movie contraption more nuts than Charlie Kaufman's gnarliest fever dream. It's cleverly stupid.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  The humor emphasizes quantity over quality, but the batting average isn't too bad. And where else can you witness Leslie Nielsen do a nude scene?

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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  Scary Movie 4 finds horror parody overshadowed by ho-hum groin blows, C-list celebrity cameos, slapstick child abuse, soon-to-be-forgotten hip-hop personalities, plus scatalogical and gay jokes; real laughs are few.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart

  Isn't it amazing to see just how low some people will stoop if you pay them enough?

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