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Eh, it\u2019s Scream 5<\/a>. They\u2019re doing Scream 5\u2019s plot and characters this time, in a series that has always used one or two movies as the central framework to hang the rest of its joke tangents on. Olivia Rose Keegan\u2019s Sara and Savannah Lee Nassif\u2019s Tuesday are subbing in for sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter, Cameron Scott Robert\u2019s Jack is subbing in for Sam\u2019s boyfriend, Richie, and so on and so forth, with Sydney Park, Gregg Wayans, Benny Zielke, and Ruby Snowber filling out the new group of teens. Except in this version, Sara and Tuesday\u2019s mother isn\u2019t absent; she\u2019s Anna Faris\u2019 returning Cindy Campbell, in a plotline that layers in most of the original Scary Movie crew \u2013 including Regina Hall\u2019s Brenda, Marlon Wayans\u2019 Shorty, and Shawn Wayans\u2019 Ray \u2013 onto the Scream 5 spine for a larger intertwining of two generations than that film was aiming for.<\/p>\n Of course no one ever goes to a Scary Movie installment for the storyline, but rather the R-rated jokes and the parodies throughout. This one delivers the expected nonstop barrage of sight gags, sound gags, sex gags, and slapstick gags \u2013 including the requisite jokes about Ray\u2019s not-so closeted homosexuality or that Shorty quite enjoys marijuana \u2013 all while the central Scream scenario is constantly being invaded by bits culled from the likes of Sinners<\/a>, Weapons<\/a>, Get Out<\/a>, and much more. Some of these moments, like the two scenes directly pulled from Sinners, feel like missed opportunities by just lightly touching upon a film that feels so ripe for a bigger and funnier parody. Others, like a riff on Longlegs<\/a> featuring the great trio of Chris Elliot, Damon Wayans Jr. and Heidi Gardner, work better as far as hitting most of the beats you\u2019d hope from a send-up of the source material, even with limited screen time.<\/p>\n In general, Scary Movie 2026\u2019s joke success rate is unfortunately on the low side, feeling like maybe 3 or 4 out of every 10 jokes hit the mark. There are genuinely funny and clever gags here, to be sure, including surreal touches such as a moment involving a knife stabbing a poster and how the poster itself reacts. But there are also too many jokes that are whiffs or fall into the \u201chey, I remember when that happened in that other movie\u201d basket, such as a Terrifier 3<\/a> parody that basically just looks and feels like Terrifier 3. Similarly, there\u2019s a sight gag pulled from the humor-filled Final Destination Bloodlines<\/a> that is just doing the same joke that movie already made rather than putting a new spin on it.<\/p>\n In general, Scary Movie 2026\u2019s joke success rate is unfortunately on the low side, feeling like maybe 3 or 4 out of every 10 jokes hit the mark.\u201c<\/p>\n As with the original Scary Movie <\/a>back in 2000, it\u2019s also innately odd to use a Scream movie as the center of a parody like this when the thing being parodied was so self-aware and using humor to poke fun at itself and its genre in the first place. It results in scenes where it\u2019s simply echoing the same joke Scream 5 (and, in a couple of scenes, Scream 6<\/a>) already did, such as when the characters make pointed remarks about the kind of legacy sequel that we\u2019re in the midst of watching. Also, as much as it feels silly to harp on the story, the copying of Scream 5\u2019s plot and nearly every character from it, while then also bringing back a ton of Scary Movie alumni (including Lochlyn Munro\u2019s Greg, Cheri Oteri\u2019s Gail, and Dave Sheridan\u2019s Doofy, all returning for the first time since the first movie) means there\u2019s just too many damn characters and the cast are left fighting for screen time.<\/p>\n A big selling point of this movie is the reunion of Anna Faris and Regina Hall as Cindy and Brenda, given these two very talented women were always really funny together, even during the Scary Movie franchise\u2019s weaker points. And they still are funny, but they also tend to just pop in and out of the movie \u2014 like nearly every character \u2013 and they aren\u2019t in nearly as many of the same scenes together as one would hope. Still, they do both prove once more how well they can nail a joke, including an especially hysterical line delivery from Hall near the end.<\/p>\n Amongst the likeable younger cast, Keegan (legit looking like she could be Faris\u2019 daughter) and Nassif (legit evoking Jenna Ortega) are especially funny and charismatic too, as is Snowber in a showy role that\u2019s a bit of an amalgam of Scream 5\u2019s Liv and Amber. And there are, per usual for this franchise, several notable celebrity cameos, a couple of which deliver some of the bigger laughs in the film.<\/p>\n
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