Scary Movie (2000)
Jun 9, 2000Genre Spoof
The first in a popular series of comedies, this spoofs the recent hits of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer in the most vulgar and witless way possible
Anna Faris
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Jul 8, 2001Genre Spoof
The first of the Scary Movie sequels where the Wayans Brothers extend the gag beyond the slasher movie to take on the ghost story and exorcism film while aiming squarely for Lowest Common Denominator in sophomoric humour
May (2002)
Jun 1, 2004Gonzo Rejection Story
Almost unclassifiable work from Lucky McKee that plays out as a gonzo love and rejection story featuring an alienated Angela Bettis before an end that tips over into horror
The Hot Chick (2002)
Feb 2, 2003Gender Exchange Comedy
Adam Sandler produced film that is a variant on the bodyswap standard in which Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams switch bodies. Much crass humour ensues in between a good-naturedly all-inclusive message
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Dec 16, 2003Genre Spoof
David Zucker takes over the reins of the franchise from the Wayans Brothers. With a lack of big scary movies in 2002 to parody, the film takes a scattershot approach parodying any film at all, with the usual inanity
Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Jun 21, 2006Genre Spoof
Fourth of the Scary Movie films and the usual crude inanity, although under David Zucker the movie parodies has expanded well beyond what can be labelled scary movies any longer
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Stalker Superheroine Comedy
Unfunny Ivan Reitman comedy with Luke Wilson being stalked by his psychotic superheorine ex Uma Thurman
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
Oct 1, 2010Singing Chipmunks
The first of the sequels to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Marginally less grating than the first film but that's being relative – all the things that one hated the first time are back in equal amounts
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Animation/Inventor Creates Rains of Food
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, later directors of The Lego Movie, create an animated film that is a delight with its nonsensical visions of a town inundated by weather phenomena made of food
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Nov 17, 2010Time-Travelling Science-Fiction Fans
Science-fiction fans go time travelling in this British film that offers a good many wry fannish in-jokes mixed with a modestly clever time travel scenario
Yogi Bear (2010)
Dec 13, 2010Talking Bear/Cartoon in Live-Action
Live-action adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series is a film construed entirely around slapstick sequences that never requires you to engage your brain in any way
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Jan 20, 2012Singing Chipmunks
It may say how doomed the Western world is that people have paid to watch three films so far all centred around these annoyingly cutsie helium-voiced chipmunks. This is marginally less annoying that the preceding two
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Sep 27, 2013Animation/Island of Living Food
The original film was a good deal of fun; this sequel feels like it is simply a repeat of the same but slightly different. Still there is a good deal of creativity to the visual puns and living food creatures
Movie 43 (2013)
Nov 8, 2013Anthology of Bad Taste Comedy Skits
An anthology of comedy skits that sets out to be in as bad taste as possible – you are left astounded how far a film has to go to offend in this post-South Park era. That and wondering if the producers had kidnapped some of the stars' family members to force them to participate
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
Apr 4, 2016Singing Chipmunks
The end of Western civilisation is surely upon us that studios have devoted multi-million dollar resources to making four of these films and that audiences flock to them despite universally terribly reviews. Ok so maybe I hated this one marginally less than the preceding three
The Emoji Movie (2017)
Dec 4, 2017Animation/The Lives of Talking Emojis
In a textbook example of a film slung together to exploit a momentary fad, this bizarrely speculates that the emojis in your text messages are actually living entities that have lives inside the phone. A not-too-well-thought out concept that leaves you contemplating strange questions about its world