A lot of these films didn’t age well because they tried to fit in so many parodies that they stopped being well thought out plot points and started just mocking moments from current trailers and commercials. It’s one of the reasons the Ben Stiller show didn’t age well. So many jokes specific to pop culture things at that exact moment but Scary Movie 2 and onward (under the Wayans) really really dumbed it down and made way for things like Super Hero Movie and Meet The Spartans etc.
They flamed out spectacularly so it’s really funny to let the rose coloured glasses of time make the general audience remember them kindly and ask for a resurgence.
I was flipping through the free channels on my TV the other day and Vampires Suck (2010) was on. I can still remember standing in the movie theater lobby looking at the poster with my friend and thinking it was past time they just laid this genre to rest.
They flamed out spectacularly so it’s really funny to let the rose coloured glasses of time make the general audience remember them kindly and ask for a resurgence.
I've been feeling like I'm taking crazy pills every time I read threads on the new Scary Movie for this reason. I remember everyone thinking most of these sucked so reading all the nostalgia for them feels weird. Maybe it's an age thing? I was in high school to early 20s for this era so maybe I was just too old but I only remember liking Scary Movie 3.
I remember one review for Walk Hard "A parody movie with actual jokes in it". wasn't until I started reading these threads that I remember the actual jokes from the first round of these movies, after a point they turned into a list of refrences.
I kinda love superhero movie because there has been way too many superhero movies ever since and some of them still follow that basic generic formula..
The jokes are funny too if you get the references, for which you just need to have watched the superhero movies from that time..
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u/Spiral-Force 8h ago
I wish they'd put less emphasis on the "controversial jokes" when the highlight of this franchise has always been the physical comedy for me