Media Scanners: "Scary Movie 3"

When new horror movies are released, Horror.com scours the media for reviews. This update will give you a brief snapshot of what some of the top film critics in America are saying about "Scary Movie 3".

"Crass, crude and sledgehammer-subtle. Yet, you can't help giggling yourself stupid, even at the more obvious sight gags." - Gene Seymour, Newsday

"But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old "Naked Gun" shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and "Scary Movie 3" ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself." - Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter

"Forget about the sacrosanct, forget about taste, forget about taboos. Innocent kids are thrown out windows, crushed by speeding buses and seduced by pedophile priests bearing candles and wine." - Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post

"This crumbling franchise, like the slasher genre it once mocked so well, has decayed past the point of any mad scientist's reanimation." - Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

"What Scary Movie 3 does do that its predecessors didn't is layer on a bunch of throwaway visual puns and one-liners that make all the lampoonery seem a tad more substantial." - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"[A]lthough "Scary Movie 3" boasts the same relaxed attitude to racial and sexual humor, some of the same eye for movieland ridiculousness, along with the usual cameos...it lacks a single explosive, roll-on-the-floor gag, and too often repeats and belabors jokes that are merely OK." - Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

"Mr. Zucker almost makes a virtue of the non sequitur. The barrage of jokes and references flies by so thick and so fast that there's usually no time to react to one gag before two more have passed." - Stephen Holden, New York Times

"There are a few laughs in "Scary Movie 3," but most of the content is hopelessly dated. And that's the kind of problem that all the Toilet Guys in the world can't fix." - Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle