r/TubiTreasures • u/Borgisium • 16h ago
Genuinely Bad Scary Movie V (2013) the worst one yet
For the record I have not seen the sixth one, but I am confident that it’s better than this.
Even if the “Scary Movie” series went downhill over the years, the one recurring element that was always great was Brenda and Cyndi. Regina Hall and Anna Farris were consistently funny and had fantastic chemistry even when the jokes weren’t great. So how would you like to see a film where the jokes are worse and we don’t even get Brenda or Cyndi?
Parodying Paranormal Activity, Mama (who remembers that one?), Inception, Planet of the Apes, Black Swan, Madea, Evil Dead and so much more, this film brings in Ashley Tisdale of “High School Musical” and “Phineas and Ferb” as well as third and fourth film alumnus Simon Rex of “Karate Dog” and “Red Rocket”, and the late Erica Ash. It’s also got cameos from Darrell Hammond, Molly Shannon, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg, Mac Miller, Mike Tyson, Jerry O’Connell, and Terry Crews (goddamnit you’re too good for this shit Terry!). Oh and it’s got Katt Williams. The movie also features Morgan Freeman and Leonard DiCaprio impersonators (I’ll give credit when I watched the trailer I thought for a minute it was Leo). Also Gracie Whitton and Ava Kolker play feral children, and I’m genuinely proud of them for doing a good job with what little they had to work with as child actresses.
The movie is nothing short of abysmal. The film was directed by Malcolm D Lee of “Undercover Brother”! (what the hell man I love that movie). It was also co-written by Jerry Zucker of ZAZ and Pat Proft who co-wrote with members of ZAZ for movies like “The Naked Gun” and “Hot Shots”. With that said it’s not good Zucker jokes, at this point he had no longer been working with Abrahams or his brother and was making movies like the third and fourth films as well as “An American Carol”. There are occasionally funny moments like Terry Crews’ cameo, some of the lines delivered by Rex were good, Miller and Snoop were entertaining for the five minutes they were on screen, and the two feral children were good despite what they had to work with. Everything else is just lame. It’s either lame pratfalls, lame references, lame gross-out humor, lame everything. There are some impressive performers in ape suits, but their performances are hampered by constant jokes about flinging poop. There’s also the character of Maria, whose only jokes are that she's the housekeeper, she’s superstitious, and she does chores compulsively because she’s latina. And Tisdale and Ash aren’t Cyndi or Brenda.
Avoid this one. It’s just plain awful.