SCARY MOVIE 4

Cindy Campbell, looking for a good job, decides to work as a social assistant taking care of an elderly woman who is not able to understand or want. But soon she will realize that the house where the elderly woman lives is inhabited by the ghost of a child. Meanwhile, a great threat falls on the city, some aliens who have arrived on earth begin to pulverize the inhabitants sowing panic and destruction. The only one who knows how to defeat the alien threat is the little ghost who will tell Cindy that the only way to face the aliens is to go to a small and mysterious village where time seems to have stopped. We have reached the fourth chapter of the now famous comic-demenziale saga that lives on the shoulders of famous horror films and not, "Scary Movie". Behind the camera returns David Zucker, already director of "Scary Movie 3" and other demenziali films like "The Airplane! The Most Ridiculous Movie in the History of Aviation", "Police Squad" and "Police Squad 2 ½" In the cast appears once again the "heroine" Anna Faris, as always in the role of Cindy Campbell and Regina Hall; we also find many actors from the third chapter like Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex and Leslie Nielsen in the role of the President of the United States. Stand out new familiar faces such as Bill Pullman, Michael Madsen, Mike Tyson and Shaquille O'Neal. After "Scream", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "The Haunting", "The Ring" and "Signs", this time the demenziale saga takes aim at famous Thriller and Horror films like "Saw" and "Saw 2", "The Grudge" and "The Village", but also many other films like "War of the Worlds" (by Steven Spielberg), "Million Dollar Baby", "Brokeback Mountain". Judging by the poster and the gorilla sitting in the second row, one would expect some reference to "King Kong" but do not be fooled because there is no reference to the film by Peter Jackson. Although the ingredients are always the same, this time everything seems to work worse than usual, and the story, which after all has always been only a pretext to show funny gags, this time convinces very little. As for the comedy, this "Scary Movie 4" has really little and nothing; the gags are all very repetitive (like the countless accidents that happen to the child and the various scenes of the object thrown that accidentally hits someone else) and are not at all original, in fact all seen a thousand times in many Italian films of the "Fantozzi" series (like the scene where inserting the gun in the pants a shot is fired inadvertently) or in the cartoon television series "The Simpsons" (like the scene where Cindy and her friend capture the two maidens in the village to take the clothes of the place but the attack turns against them, just as it happens to Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders when they go to Las Vegas). The story, as already mentioned, this time is really very poorly thought out: the citations are very poorly linked together and many passages are makeshift, confused and forced. Even the introduction, which this time takes inspiration from "Saw" and "Saw 2" turns out to be very disappointing, weak and stupid; while many scenes (like the one of the talk-show) are terribly annoying and bothersome. In conclusion "Scary Movie 4" is a comedy film in which you never laugh, in which despite the short duration you get bored and in which the only thought that pervades the spectator is so much tenderness and pity for great actors of the caliber of Bill Pullman and Michael Madsen and one wonders how they could have accepted to ruin their career by appearing in such a poor film. To be fair, we can only give a "very bad" to this fourth and hopefully last chapter of "Scary Movie", but we could be kind and give it at least a one. But since in life you have to be fair...