Eye Candy #421 - "Scary Movie 4"

Scary Movie 4: I enjoyed the first “Scary Movie”. I found “Scary Movie 2” to be one of the worst, unfunny comedies in the history of film. I watched “Scary Movie 3” (the first non-Wayans-helmed one) and found some funny parts in the film. So I had hopes that “Scary Movie 4” would be more like 1 & 3. Instead it was more like two.  A mish-mash of film swipes, including “War of the Worlds” (predominantly), “The Grudge”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Million Dollar Baby”, “Saw”, and “The Village”, amongst others.   Anna Faris, the star of the previous movies, is back as Cindy. She gets a job taking care of an old woman…in a house haunted by the ghost of a dead Japanese boy. She stumbles into the life of Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko, who looks like he’s setting himself up for the role of sitcom dad some day), the Tom Cruise-like hero whose trying to save his family from alien invaders. We’ve also got Charlie Sheen, Bill Pullman (god knows what he’s doing in this film), Leslie Nielsen as the President (I’d vote for Leslie Nielsen…except he’s a Canadian), Carmen Electra, Shaquille O’Neal, Dr. Phil, Michael Madsen, Cloris Leachman, Kevin Hart, and Anthony Anderson. They try hard but the plot is almost too dumb to comprehend.  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”