| Scary Movie 5 | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Malcolm D. Lee |
| Written by | |
| Based on | Characters byShawn Wayans Marlon Wayans Buddy Johnson Phil Beauman Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Steven Douglas Smith |
| Edited by | Sam Seig |
| Music by | James L. Venable |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Dimension Films[1] |
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Running time | 86 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million[3] |
| Box office | $78.4 million[3] |
Scary Movie 5 (stylized asScary MoVie) is a 2013 Americanparody film directed byMalcolm D. Lee, written byDavid Zucker andPat Proft, and produced by Zucker and Phil Dornfeld. It is thestandalone sequel toScary Movie 4 (2006) and the fifth installment in theScary Movie film series. It is the second and last film in the series to be distributed byThe Weinstein Company, as well as the only one not to involveMiramax Films.[4] The film starsAshley Tisdale,Simon Rex,Erica Ash,Katrina Bowden,Terry Crews,Heather Locklear,J. P. Manoux,Mac Miller,Jerry O'Connell,Molly Shannon,Snoop Dogg,Kate Walsh andKatt Williams.
The film is the only installment of the franchise not to featureCindy Campbell (played byAnna Faris) or Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall). Itpremiered on April 11, at the Hollywood's ArcLight Cinerama Dome.[5] The film parodies various horror films and other popular culture.
Scary Movie 5 was released on April 12, 2013.[6] The film received negative reviews from critics. With a gross of $78.4 million against a $20 million budget, it is the lowest-grossing film in theScary Movie series despite being a box office success. A sequel,Scary Movie 6, is in development with the Wayans brothers' involvement after 18 years.
Charlie Sheen andLindsay Lohan get together to make a sex tape with over 20 cameras in his room. They do all sorts of bedroom antics, including gymnastics, riding a horse, and having clowns jump in. Sheen is pulled into the air by a paranormal force and thrown against walls, shelves, and doors until he lands on the bed again. Frightened, Lohan decides to go home when she also flies into the air; becoming possessed she throws Sheen into the camera, killing him. The text explains that Sheen's body was found that day but he did not stop partying until days later and that his three children were found missing, Lohan was arrested, again, and a reward was put out for the missing kids.
Several months later, Ja'Marcus and D'Andre are walking in theHumboldt County woods in California, searching forcannabis to steal. Afterwards, they hide in acabin in the woods. Inside, they see three strange creatures, later confirmed to be Sheen's children, and turn them in for the reward. The feral children are placed in isolation at a child development research center for a few months until they are deemed well enough to be returned to familial custody.
Sheen's brother Dan Sanders and his wife Jody come for them. They can only have them if they agree to stay in a large suburban middle-class home fitted with security cameras. She is reluctant to take them at first but soon adapts. In an attempt to bond with their new children, Jody auditions for a ballet performance,Swan Lake, and is given the lead, theSwan Queen.
Meanwhile, a continuing pattern of bizarreparanormal activity in their new home makes them investigate further. They eventually learn from the children that the attacks on their home are by "Mama", their mother, who is under a curse and wants them back to sacrifice both herself and the children. Maria, the Hispanic live-in maid and housekeeper, is frightened and keeps trying various rituals, Catholic and otherwise, to ward off the evil spirits in the house.
During the day, Dan is frustrated with the modest progress of his test subjects at a primate intelligence research facility; ironically, he is not bright enough to realize that one of the chimpanzees,Caesar, is now actually much smarter than he is. One night, the pool drain invites others to a party. In the morning, Maria sees the mess in the pool and does more rituals, causing Dan to fire her. Because Dan doesn't understand herSpanish, their fighting leads to the lab releasing all of the apes.
Jody and Dan, with the help of Jody's close friend Kendra Brooks who she had met at ballet, must quickly find a way to lift the curse and save their family. Along the way, they seek help from psychicBlaine Fulda, a complete fraud, and dream extractorDom Kolb, who helps them understand that the solution to their problems lies in the mysteriousBook of the Evil.
However, Jody and Kendra are oblivious to the book's power, wreaking havoc on the four friends. They take turns reading the book's two passages: one that unleashes demons,"gort klaatu barada nikto", and the other that frees them from possession. When "Mama" takes the children to a cliff to sacrifice them, Jody fails to lift the curse with the book, but manages to knock the evil spirit into Ja'Marcus and D'Andre's pool, where a shark devours her.
Realizing the love for her adopted children is all she needs, Jody gives the Swan Queen part to Kendra, who performs the dance in the style of astripper. The audience applauds enthusiastically, including Jody, Dan, the children, Kendra's family, andMadea. The narrator is revealed to be Caesar, who tells the audience that humans should enjoy the time they have on Earth, saying thatapes will one day take over the world.
In apost-credits scene, Sheen wakes up, realizing that the whole movie was a dream. After Kolb tells Sheen he will be sleeping with Lohan, a car crashes into the room, killing him. The driver is Lohan as she gets out, throws Kolb the car keys and says, "You were driving".
The main films parodied inScary Movie 5 includeParanormal Activity,[12]Black Swan,[13]Mama[12] andRise of the Planet of the Apes.[12] Other films parodied areSinister,[12]Inception,[12]Ted (only in the unrated DVD),[14]Evil Dead (which was released a week prior to the film),[12]The Cabin in the Woods,[13]Insidious[15] andThe Help.[16]
The film is directed byMalcolm D. Lee and co-written and co-produced byDavid Zucker, who previously directedScary Movie 3 (2003) andScary Movie 4 (2006).[4]Anna Faris, who starred in the previous films in the franchise, confirmed that she would not return for the fifth film.[17] Tisdale's involvement in the film was confirmed in June 2012.[18][19]
Lohan and Sheen joined the cast in August 2012.[20][21] Terry Crews joined the cast on August 14, 2012.[22]
Filming began in September 2012.[23][24] The first promotional image of the film, featuring Lohan and Sheen in the very first scene of the movie, was released on September 20, 2012.[25][26]
The only actors from any of the previous installments to appear in this film are Sheen,[27] Rex, Shannon, and Hammond. They do not portray their original characters, Sheen stars as himself, Rex plays Dan, Shannon plays Heather, and Hammond plays a doctor.
The film was largely shot in and aroundAtlanta,Georgia in the fall of 2012, with additional filming January and February 2013 atSunset Gower Studios inLos Angeles. Zucker reportedly handled additional filming and reshoots while Malcolm D. Lee was starting production forThe Best Man Holiday (2013).
| Scary Movie 5: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | April 23, 2013 |
| Recorded | 2013 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Length | 44:34 |
| Label | Lakeshore Records |
Scary Movie 5: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is thesoundtrack of the film and was released on April 23, 2013.[28][29]
| No. | Title | Performer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Werk Me" | Hyper Crush | 3:50 |
| 2. | "Way Out Willie" | Dug | 2:19 |
| 3. | "I Want Her" | Blind Truth & Georgia Harris | 3:04 |
| 4. | "How You Girlz Git Down" | Marcus Latief Scott | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Everybody Feel It" | Hit Feeling Productions | 3:22 |
| 6. | "Electricity" | John Costello | 1:47 |
| 7. | "Lakme – Flower Duet" | Apollo Symphony Orchestra | 3:28 |
| 8. | "Thunder" | The League | 4:15 |
| 9. | "Pimp Cup" | Tarik NuClothes | 2:12 |
| 10. | "Right There" | Bellringer | 3:35 |
| 11. | "Livin' Loud" | D.J. FiFi | 3:33 |
| 12. | "Swan Lake (Waltz Act 1)" | Yuri Botnari | 2:59 |
| 13. | "Somewhere in This World" | Pete Peterkin | 3:15 |
| 14. | "Ready for War" | MicLordz & Sauce Funky | 3:14 |
| Total length: | 44:34 | ||
| Scary Movie 5: Original Motion Picture Score | ||||
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| Film score by | ||||
| Released | May 14, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | Score | |||
| Label | Lakeshore Records | |||
| James L. Venable film scores chronology | ||||
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Scary Movie 5: Original Motion Picture Score is the soundtrack of the film scored byJames L. Venable it was released on May 14, 2013.[30] All songs were written and composed by Venable.
Scary Movie 5 was released onDVD andBlu-ray on August 20, 2013.[31] An unrated version was also released.
Scary Movie 5 grossed $32 million in North America and $46.4 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $78.4 million.[3] In North America, the film opened to #2 in its first weekend with $14.2 million, behind42, making it the lowest-grossing opening weekend for a film in theScary Movie franchise.[32]
It was expected to take in about half as much as its predecessors, around $17 million in its opening weekend.[33][34][35] The film held up reasonably well in its second weekend, slipping two spots to #4 with an estimated $6,296,000.[36] In its third weekend, the film dipped 43.8% to #7 earning an estimated $3,457,000. The film held a spot in the top ten for the fourth weekend in a row, falling to #9 with a gross of $1,441,360.Scary Movie 5 fell to #13 in its fifth weekend earning $675,942 and slid to #15 in its sixth with $420,253.[37]
Scary Movie 5 was not screened for critics in advance.[38] The film received negative reviews from critics. OnRotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 4% based on 52 reviews and an average rating of 2.29 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "Juvenile even byScary Movie standards, this fifth installment offers stale pop culture gags that generate few laughs."[39] OnMetacritic, the film has a score of 11 out of 100 based on 16 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[40] Audiences surveyed byCinemaScore gave the film a grade "C−" on a scale of A+ to F.[41]
IGN gave the film a 1.0 out of 10.[12] Stephanie Merry ofThe Washington Post gave the film zero stars saying, "The movie is so appalling that even a film fan who guffawed her way throughThe Aristocrats would feel nothing but a deep emptiness as the end credits begin to roll, wondering if one solid joke was too much to ask from a movie that bills itself as comedy."[13]
Joe Neumaier ofThe New York Daily News gave the film one star saying, "Like so much of this whole series – hatched in 2000 by the Wayans brothers and intermittently directed byAirplane! veteran David Zucker, though newcomer Malcolm D. Lee takes over here – the mere mention of a familiar pop culture figure or title is supposed to be hilarious. It often isn't, and in fact the constant name-dropping and gross-out humor gets tiresome (in a movie that's at least 10 minutes too long). Luckily, folks like Snoop and good sports likeSheen and, yes,Lohan, break up the monotony. Until, like an undead beastie, the boredom and dumb jokes come roaring back."[42]
Rafer Guzman ofNewsday felt that "Even the talented people – comedian Katt Williams as a fake psychic, high-energy actor Jerry O'Connell in a send-up of the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' books – get chewed up and spit out by this relentless anti-laugh machine.Scary Movie 5 doesn't even have the imagination for a worthwhile gross-out joke. When the best you can offer is a poopy toothbrush, it's time to pack it in."[43] Darren Franich ofEntertainment Weekly said "Hitting theaters seven years after the lastScary Movie, the new film doesn't even feature the ameliorating presence of Anna Faris, who gave the earlier films a certain spoofy grace. In her place isHigh School Musical refugee Ashley Tisdale, her face frozen in an eye roll of mild irritation. Who can blame her? The film hopscotches between too-late riffs onRise of the Planet of the Apes,Inception,Insidious, andBlack Swan. At a running time of 86 minutes, it's about as long as an episode ofSaturday Night Live, except with less laughs and worse storytelling."[15] Frank Scheck ofThe Hollywood Reporter said "The filmmakers' desperation is evident from the fact that a good chunk of the running time is devoted to spoofing the recentJessica Chastain starrerMama. While that film was indeed asleeper hit, it hardly seems memorable enough to warrant such sustained treatment, and indeed the comic payoffs are nil."[44]
The film has earned three nominations at the34th Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Supporting Actress for Lindsay Lohan, Worst Screen Combo for Lohan and Charlie Sheen and Worst Prequel, Remake, Ripoff or Sequel.[45]
Director Malcolm D. Lee was very critical of the movie: "It was just a bad movie. Believe me. Don't bother going to see that movie. Or renting it, or anything. It's not worth your time".[46]
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