Scary Movie V Review

Movie: Scary Movie V
By: Maniac E
Date: July 1, 2013

Evil is coming. Bring protection.

We are at the point that Scary Movie was already buried and wouldn´t reappear but they found a way to let a part 5 a emerge from the deepest and darkest parts of hell... With part 4 being one of the biggest letdowns will part 5 bring us something new and laugable?

A couple begin to experience some unusual activity after bringing their lost nieces and nephew home. With the help of home-surveillance cameras, they learn they're being stalked by a nefarious demon. I would almost say what story?

The movie tries to make fun of Inception, Black Sawn, Evil Dead, etc., but it seems to me that you have to actually be smarter than something if you want to effectively make fun of it. Instead, they should make a movie that makes fun of all the Scary Movie movies. Honestly, they should be pretty easy targets. This movie does not have the minimum level of intelligence required to comment about anything at all. The best it can do is make "peehole" jokes and try to get the audience to laugh at monkeys flinging poo at the wall. No, it's really not funny.

I'm racking my brains trying to recall if there was anything at all good about this film. I do remember laughing at a couple of the gags. That sex scene with clowns and ponies was actually somewhat amusing - there, I said it. I'm afraid this review is going to come off the wrong way because it sounds like I refuse to watch stuff that pushes boundaries of good taste. Hardly, man. I even liked Videodrome, which Roger Ebert called "nauseating." The real problem is that this film uses boundary-pushing as an excuse to be stupid. In reality, it's about as intelligent as a stoned middle school dropout, incidentally the only type of person I can imagine enjoying this.

I was about to start getting depressed about the state of the world given that this kind of obvious dog dookie is considered entertainment, but it doesn't seem that other people found it all that entertaining either. I watched at least two couples walk out of the theater before the end of the film, so ultimately I'm concluding that there's probably some reason to have hope about the future of this planet. Thanks, Scary MoVie! Not that there's anything to be thankful for except that no one actually came up to me and hit me in the head with a shovel while the film was playing. They'll probably include that in part six.

BLURAY REVIEW

Image quality

Scary Movie 5's high definition presentation has its moments of questionable quality as well as times of high quality, with the latter largely dominating the proceedings. Occasionally, the transfer takes on a murky, soft, dull, uninspired appearance, with flat details and bland colors. However, the majority of the image proves well defined though not always quite so colorfully brilliant.

Sound

Scary Movie 5 features a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The track offers good musical clarity and spacing, delivering notes across a fairly wide stage. Some of the heavier "Horror" sound effects come through nicely, with some of the bumps and thuds and whatnot playing with good low end heft and, sometimes, directional sound elements.

Extras

Overall

Scary Movie V was again a movie with flaws, but sound and picture quality are great! Some can say that it would have been better the other way around.

E1 Entertainment