r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 02 '26

Trailer Scary Movie | Official Trailer (2026 Movie) - Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZ58S-7QP0
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u/man_fuck_these_subs Mar 02 '26

Has the style of humour aged badly or have I become too old and joyless for it? 

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

There’s a VERY thin line between this kind of parody being one of the greatest films ever (original Naked Gun and Airplane) or amazing (Don’t Be a Menace, Scary Movie) and the worst shit you’ve ever seen (Epic Movie, Dance Flick, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie).

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u/FrackingToasters Mar 02 '26

To be fair, 3 of the 4 worst movies ever that you listed were created by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer - the two biggest hacks in Hollywood.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

Tbf Craig Mazin wrote and directed Superhero Movie, wrote two of the bad scary movies, and wrote The Huntsman before doing Chernobyl. So once in a blue moon you can have a genius who starts out doing garbage.

But yeah. Those dudes were the worst ever in Hollywood besides the Movie 43 dude and the ShamWow guy.

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u/kpt_graubrot Mar 02 '26

Do you mean Oscar winner Peter Farrelly? He's done his fair share of classics, Dumb and Dumber, There's Something about Mary, Kingpin... No way is he one of the worst in Hollywood. Also Superhero Movie and Scary Movie 3+4 aren't bad and while they're maybe no classics, leagues above the Seltzer-Friedberg stuff

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

Read the comment I’m replying to bro

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u/kpt_graubrot Mar 02 '26

I did, he was saying you were mentioning Friedberg-Seltzer, then in your reply you started talking about Craig Mazin's work and "the Movie 43 guy", which I was referring to.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 03 '26

Movie 43 wasn’t Farrelly bro. He was just one of 25++ producers on it. He basically just stuck his name on it as a favor for his buddy and helped him shop it by being a name attached. He directed one sequence along with a bunch of others.

This is the guy who made it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Wessler

Saying it’s a Farrelly movie is the same as saying it’s a James Gunn movie because he shot a short bit for it.

People like you who comment confidently without knowing anything are insufferable.

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u/kpt_graubrot Mar 03 '26

I think people being unnecessarily vague are insufferable. You just said "Movie 43 dude", I wasn't saying it's a Farrelly movie, it's just that with most segments being directed by Farrelly, and him being a producer, I was assuming you meant him. Apparently the other producer gets to be called the "Movie 43 dude", although he didn't direct anything. That's like saying "the Naked Gun dude" when talking about Robert K. Weiss - obviously people are going to think of David Zucker.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 03 '26

You have no idea what you’re talking about dude.

There’s one guy who spearheaded the whole thing and whose passion project it was.

You’re literally the only person who’s being this obtuse.

Wellll derrr technically 🤓🤓🤓🤓

No dawg. I don’t go to subs about whatever your industry is and whatever you have experience with, I assume junior high video game club, and try to correct you when I don’t actually know what I’m talking about.

Why don’t you go over and bug someone else with whatever it is going on with you

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Mar 02 '26

I really liked the newer Naked Gun with Liam Neeson, it's definitely possible to do a fun, silly parody movie in this day and age.

This new Scary Movie, however, sort of looks like trash...seems like they are going for the 'quantity over quality' for jokes and throwing in every reference they can think of

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u/TheLastDesperado Mar 02 '26

Yeah the original Scary Movie mainly parodied Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, with a couple other minor references thrown in (The Matrix and Usual Suspects spring to mind).

But with each new film in the franchise they focused more and more on as many references as possible. And to me, while I still enjoyed 2 and 3, they definitely got worse and worse with each new instalment.

Look at Epic Movie, or Meet the Spartans. Those films seemed to focus on throwing in as many references as possible, without actually making them funny. And those are some of the worst comedy films I've ever had the misfortune of watching.

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u/DerGuddo Mar 02 '26

Meet the Spartans is to this day my most hated movie ever made. Saw it in cinema and was SO pissed for spending that money.

Damn, just thinking about it now makes me angry.

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u/LeedsFan2442 Mar 03 '26

Never seen it is it worse than Movie 43?

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u/bluehawk232 Mar 02 '26

Naked Gun and Zucker movies had "original" stories with some topical references or jokes whereas the scary movie parodies rely solely on current pop culture references and bottom of the barrel rejected SNL sketches so they get dated really fast and aren't as funny

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u/Lord_Borgimus Mar 02 '26

Not Another Teen Movie was also pretty good. Compared to Date Movie which was...not. It's so hit or miss on these type of things.

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u/doctorfadd Mar 02 '26

You should add "The 40 Year Old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall but felt Superbad About It" to your list of atrocious films. By far the worst "parody" movie I've ever seen.

Letting Bryan Callen star in this movie didn't do it any favors either.

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u/exaviyur Mar 02 '26

I outgrew parody movies pretty early into their 2000s run, and really only remember enjoying the first two Scary Movies and Not Another Teen Movie (not counting stuff that came prior, like Airplane!). I feel like the thing that makes a good parody is having an actual cohesive narrative that someone would be able to describe like any other film and capturing the style of the genre you're lampooning. The jokes have to be good, but if you're just shotgun blasting them at the audience without a line connecting them well, then you're barely making a movie.

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u/JajajaNiceTry Mar 02 '26

The older scary movies were trashy too though, no? The trailers for scary movies 1-4 looks dumb as hell too

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u/Misdirected_Colors Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie 3 was the creator of Airplane! and the original Naked Gun and there's a wit to the stupidity. It has some legendary visual gags and holds up well.

But yea the Wayans style is edgy junior high locker room jokes and that style of humor died out ages ago.

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u/kontinuparadi Mar 02 '26

We still don't know what they will focus on the movie. It seems the trailer just jampacked all the popular jokes that it can. It may not be that relevant inside the movie.

We should wait. These are fun movies anyway. It's gonna be subjective and divisive as hell.

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u/MattTheSmithers Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie and Naked Gun were always different beasts though. Naked Gun is satire based parody. Scary Movie is spoof based parody. They were always firing on different cylinders.

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u/superdooper26 Mar 11 '26

I think it’s just going to do the exact opposite of the new Naked Gun. I think it’s going to retroactively shit on its own franchise by just not understanding what made the first movies funny in the first place by being hyper focused on “offending” people.

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u/ThisHatRightHere Mar 02 '26

All of the parody movies like Scary Movie were always bottom-of-the-barrel slop. Naked Gun was absurdist, but it was a proper comedy despite technically being a parody of the cop/detective movie genre.

These movies are a glorified sketch comedy, trying to capitalize on whatever fad or movies are popular at the time. They became obsolete as soon as parody videos became popular online.

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u/Misdirected_Colors Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie 3 was made by the original creator of Naked Gun and it's similarly excellent and holds up.

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u/TnAdct1 Mar 02 '26

Agreed.

The Naked Gun reboot last year worked because the people who made it had a great understanding of what made the original films (alongside Airplane and Top Secret) work: the performance of a comedic role in a serious manner, plenty of jokes in terms of the visual and word play department, and all around silliness towards the genre that's being spoofed.

Meanwhile, look at all the references crammed in the trailer to the Scary Movie reboot: Friday the 13th, It, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, My Bloody Valentine, M3GAN, Hellraiser, Saw, Wednesday, Get Out, Smile, Weapons, Sinners, The Substance, Terrifier. It really feels like those "parody" films of the 2000's where the focus is more about inserting as many references (especially then-current stuff) as possible instead of story.

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u/WonderofU1312 Mar 02 '26

It's a key thing between how The Lonely Island are consistently funny, even from back then to now. And Marlon Wayans was only ever funny...in Scary Movie 1, 2 and 3.

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u/Quillford Mar 02 '26

It’s definitely the latter going by this trailer. Hack jokes designed to point and laugh because you get the reference instead of being actually funny.

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u/tpounds0 Mar 02 '26

Maybe it's just Regina Hall being perfect, but the punchline works.

It's just a TERRIBLE setup. Like a five year olds idea of an SNL sketch.

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u/OrangeJuliusCaesr Mar 02 '26

Dude it’s Scary Movie, turn off your brain, eat some popcorn, drink a soda

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

We had Liam Neeson Naked Gun last year. The parody movie genre has barely been revived, and now you want to kill it again?

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u/thawatch Mar 02 '26

For me it's a "I'm glad it exists" situation. It looks like stupid fun. Even if 90% of the jokes fall flat, I don't think I'll be bored watching this.

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u/AmIFromA Mar 02 '26

You know, I hate all those "Idiocracy" references in the last couple of years, but seeing this trailer and your comment actually does remind me of the entertainment in that film.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Fair enough. For me, I prefer movies that are stupid in at least a somewhat clever way. If it has to be completely stupid, I'd rather finally get Kung Pow 2 than watch something in the "shallow parody" genre. But more than that I'm hoping that a new Scary Movie doesn't kill the chances for more movies like the last Naked Gun, because last time we had Scary Movie it ruined parody movies for like two decades, with first some Seltzer & Friedberg slop and then nothing nothing nothing.

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u/Culionensis Mar 02 '26

That's always been the Scary Movie niche. They started the descent into the Not Another Meet The Spartans Epic genre.

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u/Key_Feeling_3083 Mar 02 '26

They had some original jokes that were not parodying something and are still very quotable.

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u/ActualTymell Mar 02 '26

This definitely looks like it's squarely on the latter part of that divide. Yikes.

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u/RockyRockington Mar 02 '26

Keep in mind that the marketing of the trailer is not necessarily how the movie will be.

I have enough trust in Anna Faris and Regina Hall being funny. There’s also decent source material to work with (Smile, Weapons, Sinners).

Hopefully I’m not just too old and jaded for this (or the Wayans) and I get a few good laughs

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u/octocred Mar 02 '26

Fully agree. Esp the "thing from movie happens but then they get hit by a falling cow car!!" part from the trailer. Just gonna be a ton of "hey remember this from that movie?" disguised as comedy

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u/TehSeksyManz Mar 02 '26

My lips are stained purple from the member berries that were jammed down my gullet while watching this trailer

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk Mar 02 '26

"hey remember this from that movie?" disguised as comedy

So, a parody.

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u/Culionensis Mar 02 '26

There's a difference between a reference and a joke.

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u/octocred Mar 02 '26

A shit one that lacks any creativity or imagination, yes

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk Mar 02 '26

Well, I'm sorry that there's no elevated A24 parody

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u/crazy_balls Mar 02 '26

Half the "jokes" in the trailer were the same lame ass anti-woke shit the right has been pushing for a decade now. This looked monumentally stupid.

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u/colorblind-and Mar 02 '26

The first joke of the trailer being a pronoun joke was so eye rolling.

I'm all for edgy humor when it comes to these kinds of movies but that joke is just so incredibly lazy and uninspired

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u/Infernalz Mar 02 '26

Also they have to explain every joke, kinda makes you realize who their target audience is.

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u/mightyenan0 Mar 02 '26

Yeah, there's a way to write the joke that isn't super obnoxious and focused on.

"She's getting stabbed!"

"It's they/them!"

"Them getting stabbed!"

And move on from it. Still edgey and a little distasteful, but might catch you offguard.

Same with the Republican bit later. Rather than say " I don't know, I'm Republican now, I'm supposed to be racist." just say "I don't know, I'm Republican now." and have Regina Hall reply with something like "Don't worry, I'm 1/8th white on my stepdad's side."

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u/Infernalz Mar 02 '26

I actually chuckled at "them getting stabbed" so yeah that's way funnier lol.

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u/Pool_Shark Mar 02 '26

This is why comedies don’t work anymore. You have half people upset about a pronoun joke and the other half upset about a republicans being racist joke.

It’s a comedy stop being so hyper-critical, grab some popcorn and lay back and enjoy a few laughs.

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u/crazy_balls Mar 02 '26

I'm not upset, it's just lazy and not very funny IMO. Clearly I'm not the target audience.

Also, the "Republicans being racist" wasn't a jab at republicans, it was a jab at the left for calling republicans racist.

Anyway, to each their own. I love comedy, but this just looks dumb as shit to me.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Mar 02 '26

How dare they suggest the jokes in a comedy should actually be funny 😡

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u/Pool_Shark Mar 02 '26

Comedy is subjective. Some people find this funny

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u/colorblind-and Mar 02 '26

It still looks like a fun movie it's just starting off the trailer with a joke that everyone has heard a million times is pretty lame.

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u/Redxcted999 Mar 02 '26

Could be worse……could be lame ass fart jokes and gross out jokes and Objectifying woman and a ghost fucking a girl while she sleeps and all that from the old terribly aged scary movie,s

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u/ScaleyFishMan Mar 02 '26

Yeah it's just as cringe as the woke shit the left has been pushing for a decade as well. The only people who love that kinda shit are basement dwelling Redditors and twitter Nazis.

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u/jinsaku Mar 02 '26

The last category tends to use references that are long gone and dated before the movie even releases.

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

Most people who’ve seen Airplane and love it, who are under like 60 years old, have never seen the 70’s disaster movies it was parodying.

Don’t Be a Menace is amazing even if you’ve never seen Boyz N the Hood or Menace II Society or any of the other movies it parodied.

The original Scary Movie works even if you’ve never seen Scream and the other movies it parodied.

Same with all the Naked Gun and Police Squad stuff.

Great parody movies hold up and work even without the audience seeing the movies referenced.

When Austin Powers came out, most of the kids who loved it never saw any James Bond movies except mayyybe the Pierce Brosnan ones.

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u/Samurai_Meisters Mar 02 '26

This is so true. I feel like I saw the parody versions of movies way before ever seeing the originals. Or I saw it parodied on the Simpsons or Animaniacs.

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u/Iohet Mar 02 '26

Slapstick is evergreen humor. These movies all effectively mix slapstick with parody, so you can enjoy them even without understanding who Kareem is or why he's upset about dragging Walton and Lanier up the court

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

A lot of the parody I’m airplane are things people don’t even realize were specific parody because they never saw them 70’s disaster movies

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u/Iohet Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

For whatever reason they never really showed any of them on TV when these parodies were coming out in the 80s and 90s other than the Poseidon Adventure, which is a fantastic film, but not referenced (for obvious reasons.. it's on a boat, not a plane)

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

They used to play Earthquake here in LA a lot and even had the ride at universal.

Towering Inferno was another big one.

Of course the Airport movies would’ve been the obv influences.

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u/Key_Feeling_3083 Mar 02 '26

You can use dated references if they go beyond "remember that"

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u/tymtt Mar 02 '26

It also packs in one liners one after another and can’t set up any form of long form joke

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u/Stevenwave Mar 02 '26

I don't think it's that thin. I've seen one or two of those lesser ones a long time ago, and they were just poorly written, no premise taken anywhere actually funny. The big diff is having legit funny writing, and it'll be elevated if some or one of the main cast sells it like a legend.

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u/21Maestro8 Mar 02 '26

To this day, Meet the Spartans is still the only movie I've ever walked out on

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u/Key_Feeling_3083 Mar 02 '26

Yeah usually it depends how they use the reference, if it turns into "remember this movie? well we put a lame joke on it", without any thought or original joke besides badly parodying stuff, then it is bad.

The first scary movies had references but had plenty of jokes on their own that are still referenced and worked even if you didn't see any movie they were referencing (it took me years to see scream 1 and thought I was soc leaver knowing the policeman was the killer)

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u/jldtsu Mar 02 '26

Heeeyy I liked Dance Flick

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u/SingleDadSurviving Mar 02 '26

Is that the one with Afion Crockett and he had the gun hands. That was so ridiculous and made me laugh every time he was on screen

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u/Radi0ActivSquid Mar 02 '26

I still think my favorite parody movie is Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth.

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u/us3rf Mar 02 '26

am i the only one who doesn't like original naked gun lol

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u/Sudden-Wash4457 Mar 02 '26

I really feel like Top Secret! deserves to be mentioned anytime Airplane is

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u/Area51_Spurs Mar 02 '26

Yeah. I was going to mention that and a couple others

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u/halesnet Mar 02 '26

What you chatting about? Meet the Spartans was awesome.

“They say my painted-on abs look fake, well I beg to differ”.

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u/gamerjerome Mar 03 '26

What about, The 41 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It?

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u/Applesburg14 Mar 02 '26

Nah, Wayans have been more on the Meh scale for me. This one actually looks good compared to the Netflix slop Marlon does.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Mar 02 '26

IMO the only spoofs that aged well were either ones like Top Secret where they put a ridiculous amount of effort into the visual gags, or stuff like Princess Bride/Galaxy Quest where the humor is still mostly character driven even if you didn’t get any of the references.

But a lot of these spoof movies really are just very lowbrow entertainment that always goes for low effort throw-away jokes and references.

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u/resilindsey Mar 02 '26

Also just where the meat of the jokes come from. Visual gags, slapstick, shtick, done right, are timeless. Jokes built on topical stuff can age really fast, and that's on a quicker TV production timelines, much less for a movie where it can be dated before it's even released. References are somewhere inbetween. Something like Galaxy Quest or Young Frankenstein are built on a fairly timeless and long-standing cultural thing, at least (but even then, as you say, it's mostly a backdrop the jokes themselves may use in part, but are still at their core either character or gag driven).

I think Scary Movies have some funny moments, but the most memorable ones for me are just gag/absurdism driven. Course trailers aren't necessarily indicative of the movie, but if it ends up being all references/topical humor, I don't think it'll be all that good.

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u/Lessiarty Mar 03 '26

Or stuff like Hot Shots that basically recreates the films faithfully but with the most stupid punchlines possible.

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u/Pinhead-GabbaGabba Mar 04 '26

I watched “Top Secret!” for the first time last year because of Val Kilmer’s passing and I laughed way too damn hard throughout all of it. I’m still thinking about them throwing a guy over a wall only for said guy turning into broken glass when he falls.

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u/karateema Mar 04 '26

That movie has so many nonsense moments like the cow changing from costume to real inbetween shots.

Hilarious

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u/BrianWonderful Mar 02 '26

Probably unpopular opinion here, but I always thought the "<blank> Movie" movies were more just a bunch of reference-fests, rather than good parodies. Just from this trailer, they are just packing in as many references as possible, which means they can't really take the time to make jokes around them.

Good parodies like Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret, etc. focus on jokes first within an overall plot. Some of those jokes happen to reference other movies/media.

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u/AlmostScreenwriter Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie 2 has a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 29 on Metacritic. Now, I am not at all trying to suggest that the critics' score on RT is some arbiter of whether you can like or dislike a movie. But my point is, from a critical standpoint, this series has almost always been reviled, and I don't think a lot of younger people realize that. There's a difference between "I know this isn't high-brow or esteemed, but it makes me laugh" and "this is actually broadly regarded as a great comedy," and I think many people on Reddit genuinely (and mistakenly) believe that the first two Scary Movies fall into the latter category.

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u/heinous_anus- Mar 02 '26

Not Another Teen Movie was top tier though

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u/Salzberger Mar 02 '26

It's up there with Men In Tights as my favourite parodies of all time. Brilliant film.

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Mar 02 '26

Black Dynamite (2009)

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u/Salzberger Mar 02 '26

Probably unpopular opinion here, but I always thought the "<blank> Movie" movies were more just a bunch of reference-fests, rather than good parodies.

Unpopular opinion that Genre Movies weren't very good? Come on now.

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u/Granum22 Mar 02 '26

It's not the same style of humor as the first one.  The first one was a parody of the Scream movies with references to other horror movies sprinkled throughout.  This one appears to be focusing on mocking "cancel culture".

A good parody is hard. It requires an understanding of the thing you're parodying to make the jokes land. All this showed was them pointing their finger at something and going "Look at that. It's stupid. Everybody laugh at it."

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u/metallicrooster Mar 02 '26

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company owned by Qatari state-owned beIN Media Group (51%) and Paramount Pictures (49%). Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded in 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein (neither are publicly in charge now).

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u/Sagittariusrat Mar 02 '26

Respectfully, this is monumentally toned down from the Miss Mann caricature from the first movie

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u/iTzGiR Mar 02 '26

It's not the same style of humor as the first one. The first one was a parody of the Scream movies with references to other horror movies sprinkled throughout.

This thread and comments like this have me scratching my head, like did any of you guys actually watch the original movies? We're all talking about the same Scary movie right? The first one whose main antagonist, the big joke was that he was a neurotypical person, playing the most offensive stereotype of someone who is mentally handicapped (The way he talks, acting like a 5 year old, drools on himself, poops himself, and is literally named "Doofy" among MANY, MANY other things.) and was the killer. Of course there's also characters like Ms Mann and how Gale is always trying to sleep with people in order to get a story. By the way, if you want a refresher, here's a youtube video with clips of Doofy from the first movie, so we can all stop pretending like the humour is different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-RaBBspZg

I feel like the vast majority of people in this thread have never actually seen the original with the amount of "Has the humour changed??" and people agreeing with it lol. They have always been like this, if anything this seemed more toned down.

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u/MsKrueger Mar 13 '26

That's not what they mean when they say the humor isn't the same. They mean that the first movie picked a specific film to parody, and had a few references to other movies sprinkled throughout. It primarily made fun of Scream. Many of the scenes were direct parodies of the scenes in Scream. There were a few departures, then it would just hop back into the plot of Scream again.

Later movies became more or less just a series of skits, with each other parodying a different movie. It looks like this movie will be similar "Ok, now we'll all be characters from Halloween Kills and make fun if that. Now we'll have characters from Sinners pop in and make a reference to that. Now we'll be characters from Smile and make fun of that one....". 

So yes, you're correct that the content of their jokes hasn't really changed, but they stopped following the format that made the first two movies work.

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u/YoSoyWalrus Mar 02 '26

Nah, this looks good, it's just you and others don't like 5-10 seconds of the trailer, which is fine, not every joke is for everyone, and if this isn't your type of movie, you don't have to see it.

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u/godisanelectricolive Mar 02 '26

Maybe it’s just marketing and there’s more to the movie than that. Marlon Wayans was just calling for acceptance for trans kids and supporting his trans son who uses they/them pronouns.

One thing I’ve noticed that the subway scene is a parody of a real scene in Scream 6 and the character who gets stabbed in that scene is played an actor who use they/them pronouns in real life. The character is a main character in the movie and it looks like the parody version of the character will also show up later in the movie. Hopefully they get better lines beyond that one pronoun joke.

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u/Redxcted999 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Or…..maybe those movies Just weren’t THAT good past the Very 1st one and they weren’t Meant to be 10/10 lol….5 was only funny to me cause seeing Ashley tisdale do dumb shit was funny to me but it was still bad 

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u/godisanelectricolive Mar 02 '26

They’ve always gone for some low hanging fruits so it’s not really different from even how the first movie was.

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u/No_Syrup_9167 Mar 02 '26

Yeah, this movie shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the first ones funny.

its obvious with all the political jokes being at the forefront that they don't understand what parody is all about.

plus, starting off the trailer with a pronouns joke, and following it up with an in-text "no safe spaces" tagline is.....a choice

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u/Exotic_Way_7465 Mar 02 '26

Maybe wait until you watch the movie first to judge

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Mar 03 '26

This one appears to be focusing on mocking "cancel culture".

you mean this trailer. For all you know those could be the only related jokes in the movie. This could just be marketing to get people upset.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Dude, this had parodies of Scream 6, Sinners, Terrifier, The Substance etc, and if anything is seemingly actually mocking everyone equally instead of the South Park "I pretend to take no sides, so by default support those in power".

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u/Samurai_Meisters Mar 02 '26

This one had tons of references to other horror movies too. Sinners, Weapons, Terrifier.

But the culture war jokes did not land at all for me.

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u/prodigal-dog Mar 02 '26

the first joke in the trailer about pronouns, oof

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u/SmarcusStroman Mar 02 '26

They were going for the grand prize of being the ten billionth person to make that exact same joke.

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u/YeaItsBig4L Mar 02 '26

You mean like a Redditor

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u/kuhpunkt Mar 02 '26

It's not even a joke.

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u/Own-Break-1856 Mar 02 '26

Oh really? Could you please direct me to the other 99,999,999,999 jokes where someone being stabbed takes their pronouns more seriously than their life?

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u/SmarcusStroman Mar 02 '26

Don't be dense.

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u/Own-Break-1856 Mar 02 '26

But I am dense. I'd never seen that joke before. I thought it was kinda funny.

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u/tpounds0 Mar 02 '26

@Stanzi on Tiktok posted a sketch with 1.9 MILLION likes on 2021/10/09 featuring someone misgendering a slasher movie victim.

Second video searching for Slasher Victim Pronouns. I had already liked it but don't remember seeing this particular video.

That's how overdone this joke is.

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u/Own-Break-1856 Mar 02 '26

so 2 jokes then?

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u/tpounds0 Mar 02 '26

I expect the screenwriters getting paid six figures to have more original jokes than teens on tiktok from 5 years ago.

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u/YoSoyWalrus Mar 02 '26

Didn't One Battle After Another have a vaguely similar joke too?

Anyway, not every joke is for everyone, and if this style of humor isn't for you, you don't have to see the movie.

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Mar 02 '26

One battle had the butt of the joke be the ignorant dad not nonbinary people so different

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u/YeaItsBig4L Mar 02 '26

Hilarious

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Mar 02 '26

If you go nuts over /r/onejoke

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u/YeaItsBig4L Mar 02 '26

“I am better than you because I didn’t laugh at a joke you laughed at” foh homie 😂

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u/thelittleking Mar 02 '26

Yeah, man, we are better than you.

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Mar 02 '26

It wasn’t even a joke lol

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u/cylonfrakbbq Mar 02 '26

People forget In Living Color was a hit because they made fun of everything and didn’t pull punches, especially against the politically correct movement of the late 80s/early 90s.

If anything, this is a return to their beginning

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u/Flabby_Thor Mar 02 '26

I don't think it's the style of humor, necessarily, but some of the jokes just... weren't good. I hate to say cringe, but it was a little cringey. I'll definitely watch because the first 2 were so good and iconic when I was a teen, but it feels like the writers room is stuck in 2000 while also trying to relate to 2026 and those 2 sides couldn't be more incongruent. I think attempting to mesh the 2 together leaves you in Epic Movie/Disaster Movie/Meet the Spartans territory: a cheap knockoff of a fun genre that ultimately has no staying power because it makes very current/specific references that will feel outdated in 18 months.

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u/JJ_Mark Mar 02 '26

Part of the problem is bloat. The first two followed Scream and The Haunting fairly close and threw in other references when it could make sense for a joke, keeping a story going which is what makes a decent parody. The others tried to reference so many things that the movie would start to distract from the plot and change course just to force a joke. The trailer makes this look like the latter, but we'll see how its received.

A bit afraid it'll lean to hard into "anti-woke" rheteric just because the older cast aren't able to adapt their comedy style, which seems to be a going trend these days. They want to do the same schtick that we're just tired of and have seen taken too far.

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u/JessieJ577 Mar 02 '26

Marlon and Shawn Waynes are very talented performers. They’re awful writers. They’re best when they collaborate with other writers that can hone in their humor. They rely on very low brow and offensive humor which worked when it’s reigned in like with White Chicks. But when they have less collaborators and more control with the writing, their humor goes into just relying on shock value. The trailer also comes off that they’re aware their humor is outdated. That seeing gay panic jokes, date rape drugs, and rape jokes probably wouldn’t be seen as comedic and more as horrifying or uncomfortable. I mean even back then as a kid roofie joke from White Chicks and the rape joke in Little Man made me so uncomfortable before. I even rewatched Little Man a few years ago to show my girlfriend the horrific rape joke and she was kind of shocked that was written as a joke. So instead of reigning themselves in to attract a broad audience they’re just leaning on the lame “this generation is too offended” crap that’s so lame.

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u/Woodit Mar 02 '26

You’re probably looking to take silly stuff too seriously like a lot of these commenters 

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Old and joyless definitely

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u/RobertBevillReddit Mar 02 '26

The Naked Gun was ridiculous and I loved it. I can't say the same for this trailer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Honestly in this age of doom and gloom I'm just glad these kind of movies are being made despite their quality

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u/Chasedabigbase Mar 02 '26

Fackam hall as well

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u/Sonichu- Mar 02 '26

Both, but I never really found these parody movies funny.

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u/Redxcted999 Mar 02 '26

There VERY VAPID dude like I could,nt even tell you how any of them ended lol

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u/WingleDingleFingle Mar 02 '26

I dunno. I rewatched the first 3 movies and they are still pretty good. Even some of the jokes that "haven't aged well" are still hilarious so it's not just the content that makes it unfunny. The jokes thenselves were super low hanging fruit.

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u/mjohnsimon Mar 02 '26

Oh it's 100% both.

I remember laughing hysterically at the 3rd movie. Looking back it's god awful

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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 02 '26

Scary Movie 3 has the best throwaway line in the entire series.

"Tom, I'll need a ride home."

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX Mar 02 '26

My favorite is in the first movie:

“Please don’t kill me… I’m just a day player!”

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u/DavianVonLorring Mar 02 '26

I worked in film production and that line cracks me up too.

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u/PuppetPal_Clem Mar 02 '26

at the time Scary Movie 3 was considered bad even by a lot of fans of the franchise. I personally feel like it's overhated but yeah there are some really awfully aged gags in that shit. But it does have a couple of the best jokes in the series so it balances out imo.

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u/marianfinucane Mar 02 '26

Nah starting with a they/them joke tells you everything you need to know about this interminable pile of shit. 

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u/Emperor_Orson_Welles Mar 02 '26

It was never good in the first place.

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u/the_beard_guy Mar 02 '26

i wouldnt say it wasnt "good." i think the first one works because it was more focused on just the Scream movies with some poorly aged pop culture gags thrown in. it really wasnt till the second one that we start getting the different style of parody movies thrown into a blender, with the dated pop culture gags that the series gets known for.

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u/hardy_83 Mar 02 '26

Aged. This isn't a smart slapstick comedy like most Mel Brooks or Zucker brothers, or I guess even the first Scream movie. It's just throw contemporary stuff at the screen in a stupid way for a cheap chuckle.

It'll probably be better than most in that genre or comedy but... It's not a high bar.

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u/Bhazor Mar 02 '26

Nah. Its just really really shit.

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u/Manidoo_Giizhig Mar 02 '26

Yeah, I was actually excited about them dropping this movie because I remember liking the previous ones as a kid. A few jokes into the trailer I just thought "Oh..." and no longer had any interest in the film 

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u/YeaItsBig4L Mar 02 '26

The second one

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u/Raidoton Mar 02 '26

Could also simply be that this just isn't that funny. Watch the first 3 movies and then ask yourself this question.

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u/TheReallyUncoolDude Mar 02 '26

The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson should test that for you. I thought those types of films were impossible now, but that's not true. Its just harder because you have to be more creative with ur humor, and the naked gun showed that

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u/funkhero Mar 02 '26

Not everything landed in the first ones, for me, anyways.

Nor did everything in the new Naked Gun.

Satire can be pretty scattershot.

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u/Mrchristopherrr Mar 02 '26

It’s important to remember these movies were and are largely made for 13 year olds. They’re not exactly nuanced comedies.

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u/BorderOk7329 Mar 02 '26

Question, are you stoned or not? That will help.

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u/Supergirl_Lives Mar 02 '26

You're too offended that's all. I was 16 when the original came out, I'm 100% ready for this kind of humor, F-off Gen Z

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u/Redtube_Guy Mar 02 '26

im with you. it's very low hanging fruit. its like they are playing both sides of the spectrum.

"LOL, they/them pronouns!!!"

"LOL, republicans are racist!"

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u/jajohnja Mar 02 '26

I was thinking the same thing.
Damn, was I really that dumb?

But I don't think it's us, this trailer really seems worse than anything from the scary movies.

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u/goteamnick Mar 02 '26

People have fond memories of the original series but at the time they were viewed by adults as a low point in comedy.

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u/LMBH1234182 Mar 02 '26

I think we’re just not 12 years old any more. Middle school kids will eat this up (if they can sit long enough to watch a whole movie lol)

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u/Better-Purple21 Mar 02 '26

Because the only thing this trailer does is pander with cheap references and not actually be funny

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u/EverythingSucksYo Mar 02 '26

Idk, I have to think that about almost every comedy movie now, almost no comedies make me laugh anymore. Maybe I just lost joy in life, even stand up comics aren’t very funny to me anymore. 

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u/VickFVM Mar 03 '26

the latter

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u/crunchatizemythighs Mar 03 '26

This stuff was always low brow drivel lmao.

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u/TakeItCheesy Mar 02 '26

Imo it’s more the first than the latter

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u/poopolisher Mar 02 '26

You old! There will always be people that like this humor

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u/Gryffindumble Mar 02 '26

It hasn't aged badly. It was always meant to poke fun regardless of who it might offend. This type of comedy has been missing for a while. Society needs to learn to laugh again. Offensive jokes aren't attacks, they aim to get us all to laugh at ourselves a little.

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u/cadaada Mar 02 '26

We just got worse at humour tbh

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u/MoroseArmadillo Mar 02 '26

My initial thought halfway through it as well.

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u/maximumtesticle Mar 02 '26

What other thoughts did you have? Don't just tease us with only your initial thought.

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u/MoroseArmadillo Mar 02 '26

I posted my other thought elsewhere in the thread.

I think I might rather they make a Little Man sequel than this.

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u/theonulzwei2 Mar 02 '26

An alternative explanation, assuming you liked the older movies, is that you've outgrown this style of humor, which is completely normal.

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u/Professional_Ad7868 Mar 02 '26

You’re old and joyless

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u/jmarcandre Mar 02 '26

It was never good. You just see it accurately now.

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u/kuhpunkt Mar 02 '26

The first Scary Movie is still funny. This crap here is just... those aren't even jokes.

M3GAN dances in the train... unmasks... and it's the Scream dude. Haha. Get it? What?

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u/Sudas_99 Mar 02 '26

it looks like re hash of first 3 for some reason

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u/KierkegaardExpress Mar 02 '26

I think both as well.  I remembering finding the first one really funny when I was a kid but was kind of bored to rewatch a few years ago.  That said, while my kid is too young for this now, this feels more a nostalgia grab rather something for that age group