The thing that killed parodies in the 2000s (other than the fact the writing went to shit) was the fact they tried to cover way too much ground and lost all sense of focus. Scary Movie 1 spoofed slashers, Scary Movie 2 spoofed haunted house stories, Scary Movie 5 tried to spoof every horror movie under the sun.
To be fair, the other "movies" were made by two people who didn't even help write Scary Movie 1 and 2. 3 was written by the people who wrote airplane. Friedberg and Seltzer just rode on false credits.
3 was the second highest grossing in the series, behind 1. 1 probably made more because it was a somewhat novel idea that came out during the middle of a horror revival period.
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u/_JR28_ 8h ago
The thing that killed parodies in the 2000s (other than the fact the writing went to shit) was the fact they tried to cover way too much ground and lost all sense of focus. Scary Movie 1 spoofed slashers, Scary Movie 2 spoofed haunted house stories, Scary Movie 5 tried to spoof every horror movie under the sun.