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Given the 25 years it took brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans to reclaim control of their \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise with the new, \u201crebooquel\u201d-titled \u201cScary Movie\u201d \u2014 the sixth overall film in the series \u2014 one would think the siblings had enough time to scare up some decent jokes, too. A quarter of a century is a long time, after all. And yet, the new \u201cScary Movie\u201d is stuck somewhere between then and now, with one foot in the early-millennial absurdism that spawned the series\u2019 most beloved gags, and the other planted way too firmly in quote-unquote edgy humor.<\/p>

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Early marketing for the film teased a movie in which \u201cthere were no safe spaces,\u201d where \u201cevery line would be crossed.\u201d (Never mind that a hacky, low-hanging joke about they\/them pronouns, like the one in the film\u2019s first trailer, is a line that\u2019s been crossed so many times the chalk has faded.) \u201cScary Movie\u201d would, apparently, be a return to the button-pushing, tasteless humor that defined a generation but was now outmoded by wokeness. Hear that, snowflakes? The Wayans brothers are coming for your triggers. 2016 is all about real comedy. Save your liberal crap for \u201cThe Mindy Project\u201d!<\/p>\n

Ah, shoot, that\u2019s right: It\u2019s 2026, and provoking people with inflammatory remarks is a billion-dollar industry. What a shame that no one told the Wayans that so \u201cScary Movie\u201d could have a shot at actually being good. Though, it\u2019s important to note that the \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise was never good, at least not exactly.<\/p>\n

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(Paramount Pictures)<\/span> Olivia Rose Keegan as Sara, Cameron Scott Roberts as Jack and Savannah Lee Nassif as Tuesday in \u201cScary Movie\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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In a time when everyone is hyper-conscious of how they come off, there\u2019s a refreshing thoughtlessness to these films, a folly so proud and surprisingly well-crafted that it turns right back around to feel clever again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The series\u2019 first film is its strongest, weaving together overarching parodies of \u201cScream\u201d and \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d alongside brief send-ups of popular horror films. Though the sequels became progressively worse, each one has a handful of great situational gags \u2014 diamonds sparkling through manure recalling the finest, silliest bits in classic spoof films from the late 20th century. Maybe a spoof doesn\u2019t have to be consistently funny or ideologically progressive to be enjoyable, and anyone who demands those things should just close the door and forget what they\u2019ve seen. But you know what they say: When one door closes, a train is about to careen off the tracks and barrel right through it.<\/p>\n

Crashing into theaters alongside \u201cScary Movie\u201d this weekend is \u201cStop! That! Train!,\u201d a spoof that stylistically harkens back to Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker movies like \u201cAirplane!\u201d and \u201cThe Naked Gun,\u201d and lands about 50% more punchlines than its horror-skewering opponent. And though it\u2019s also far from perfect, \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d shrewdly updates inane parodic humor for the contemporary age, understanding that inclusivity is easier to make funny than being an \u201cequal opportunity offender,\u201d as the Wayans put it.<\/p>\n

But as strange as it may sound, \u201cScary Movie\u201d and \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d aren\u2019t competitors so much as they are complements, two parodies that hold each other up when the other starts to lag. Their simultaneous existence indicates a broader trend toward sheer, glorious stupidity that viewers crave when practically everything is either too polished and boring or wilfully obtuse. In a time when everyone \u2014 be it civilians, brands or celebrities \u2014 is hyper-conscious of how they come off, there\u2019s a refreshing thoughtlessness to these films, a folly so proud and surprisingly well-crafted that it turns right back around to feel clever again. A spoof is only as successful as its dumbest joke, and these two films have plenty to choose from.<\/p>\n

In all fairness, \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d is working with a home court advantage. Produced by the brilliant team behind \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d \u2014 Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Tom Campbell and RuPaul himself \u2014 \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d adapts the humor of the Emmy-winning reality show for the big screen. (A crash course for the unfamiliar: Put together the acronym spelled out by one of the show\u2019s many catchphrases, \u201cCharisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent.\u201d) And if there\u2019s anyone who can help translate that humor for audiences all over the country who might not watch \u201cDrag Race,\u201d it\u2019s the man who directed John Travolta\u2019s Edna Turnblad in \u201cHairspray,\u201d Adam Shankman. With a healthy dose of RuPaul\u2019s signature wit and enough drag queen-friendly lighting to combat Hollywood\u2019s run of dimly lit features, the team revives the disaster spoof with stylish aplomb.<\/p>\n

Set aboard a luxurious Glamazonian Express train, the film follows stewardesses Tess and DeeDee (\u201cDrag Race\u201d alums Ginger Minj and Jujubee) during their first day on the job after quitting their gigs at Stank Railways. Little do they and the rest of the train\u2019s crew and passengers realize that their coach is headed straight for a wicked stormaganza that promises to blow the wigs right off their heads, Got2Be glue hairspray be damned.<\/p>\n

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(Bleecker Street)<\/span> RuPaul Charles as President Judy Gagwell and Matt Rogers as Press Secretary in \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

The film rings loudly with its apparent elevator pitch \u2014 \u201cWhat if \u2018Airplane!\u2019 was set on a runaway train staffed by drag queens and every passenger was either famous or gay-famous?\u201d \u2014 but the sound is a pleasurable one. The worse the weather gets, the more delightfully moronic the film becomes. When RuPaul arrives as President Judy Gagwell, tasked with saving the train or seeing her approval ratings plummet, the script begins to sing . . . just before it sinks. RuPaul enters the fold and steals the show, and suddenly, none of the quips and bits can quite measure up to his delivery. But those are champagne problems, and on a Glamazonian Express, champagne is complimentary.<\/p>\n

Even when \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d falters and the steel of the train tracks starts to shake things too severely, the film is put back on its course by its sheer joy. There\u2019s an undeniably amiable \u2014 dare I say important \u2014 quality to a film like this hitting theaters now, when an entire subset of American politicians is devoted to pushing and passing anti-drag and transphobic legislation. The sheer existence of \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d is a statement more edgy than anything in \u201cScary Movie.\u201d<\/p>

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Yet, the film pulls off its share of daft, button-pushing jokes, too. President Gagwell is haunted by the memory of a child she ran over with a train while serving in the Railforce, a fake division of the American armed forces. Raven-Symon\u00e9, who is not Jewish, appears to deliver one single line playing a Floridian television reporter named Shayna Gefilte-Manischewitz. These things are hilarious because screenwriters Christina Friel and Connor Wright clearly approached the script by trying to make everything legitimately funny, instead of assuming that provocation immediately equates to humor.<\/p>\n

But a bigger comedic sin is the belief that viewers will automatically laugh just because they recognize a reference. \u201cScary Movie\u201d spends the majority of its runtime making broad, humorless gestures at the kind of pop culture that\u2019s been proliferating our lives and screens for the last six years, and thus, feels tired and trite. Jokes about Twitch streamers getting paid to do nothing were funnier the first 1,000 times you saw them somewhere, and even then, they weren\u2019t worth more than a passing snicker. During a bit referencing \u201cThe Substance,\u201d which is a ha-ha-funny poking at the accessibility of lip filler, there\u2019s a patently horrible joke about the Epstein files that\u2019s made significantly worse because it\u2019s not just in poor taste, but also makes no sense.<\/p>\n

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(Paramount Pictures)<\/span> Anna Faris as Cindy and Regina Hall as Brenda in \u201cScary Movie\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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As brilliant as the Wayans brothers can be, they seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what\u2019s made \u201cScary Movie\u201d last all these years. Sure, some immature viewers might have glommed onto the edgy comedy of yesteryear. But what people really loved was Faris and Hall, whose characters dominate the meme scene to this day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Several \u201cScary Movie\u201d scenes read like cobbled-together filler or late-period reshoots. But even the strongest sequences, like the opening scene where Teyana Taylor references her Oscar loss, filmed only a few months ago, can\u2019t buoy those that flatline on arrival. Even more baffling is the shoddy editing. If the Wayans were able to slip in a joke about Taylor, why didn\u2019t they cut a separate quip about horror never winning Oscars, when Amy Madigan won for \u201cWeapons\u201d the same night? At one point, Anna Faris jokes that the film can\u2019t reference \u201cIt Follows\u201d because that movie is too obscure. Yet, there\u2019s a direct recreation of a shot from \u201cIt Follows\u201d 15 minutes before.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s frustrating isn\u2019t that the jokes are terrible. I mean, that\u2019s disappointing too, but it\u2019s not my primary complaint. What doesn\u2019t compute with me is why the Wayans, who finally regained control of their franchise after the Weinstein brothers swiped it out from under them following \u201cScary Movie 2,\u201d opted to focus on simple provocation over complex comedy. These jokes don\u2019t even come off as ill-intentioned; they\u2019re just not amusing.<\/p>\n

The funniest moments in the \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise have nothing to do with the casual ableism, rapey implications or gross-out toilet humor proliferating the first five films, and everything to do with the smart character writing. When Brenda (Regina Hall), Cindy (Faris), Shorty (Marlon Wayans) or Ray (Shawn Wayans) landed a punchline, it was because their archetypal characters found themselves in ludicrous situations, played to extremes. Those are the bits that have carried the \u201cScary Movie\u201d legacy into the present. No one\u2019s rewatching \u201cScary Movie 2\u201d because they\u2019re dying to see James \u201cEvil Incarnate\u201d Woods play a lecherous priest named Father McFeely. They\u2019re watching because they want to see Brenda say the skeleton looks like Calista Flockhart, or Cindy get KO\u2019d by a black cat. Those scenes are perfect examples of how to make semi-provocative jabs at body shaming and animal violence funny.<\/p>\n

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(Paramount Pictures)<\/span> Heidi Gardner as Agent Berger and Damon Wayans Jr. as Agent Underwood in \u201cScary Movie\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

As brilliant as the Wayans brothers can be, they seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what\u2019s made \u201cScary Movie\u201d last all these years. Sure, some immature viewers might have glommed onto the edgy comedy of yesteryear. But what people really loved was Faris and Hall, whose characters dominate the meme scene to this day. The film tries to make a tongue-in-cheek commentary about how the \u201cScream\u201d reboot pushed Neve Campbell to the back burner and focused on a new group of teenagers. But a spoof is under no obligation to turn that one joke into a full narrative as it does by deferring to a younger cast, and only checking in with the franchise\u2019s original players occasionally. The people want Brenda and Cindy, and I\u2019d wager that a hefty chunk of the film\u2019s $54 million opening weekend was from those who were curious about what those characters were up to, and what new GIFs and reaction videos they might produce.<\/p>\n

Still, I laughed. Out loud, too, and more than a few times. Were those chuckles overpowered by groans and eye rolls? Definitely. But despite how truly bad \u2014 and I do mean bad \u2014 \u201cScary Movie\u201d is, there\u2019s something that remains enjoyable about it. When a joke hits, it hits hard. A spoof film, by nature, is always going to be a bit scrappy. They\u2019re loaded with practical effects and jokes that cost thousands of dollars to produce for a five-second cutaway scene. There\u2019s an odd bliss in that ingenuity, as if I were affected by how high-concept both \u201cScary Movie\u201d and \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d manage to be, despite working with medium-sized budgets and scripts that range from pretty good to this-should-be-burnt.<\/p>\n

Perfection has a great marketing team these days. Flawlessness is seen as attainable. But the cinema spoof still kicks dirt all over those concepts, even when it\u2019s awful. Here, excellence is determined by how much fun you can have on set, how ridiculous you can be, and how you can make a joke so completely insipid that it circles back around to being funny again. Those attempts don\u2019t always work, but in an era when everything is picked apart until there\u2019s nothing left, there\u2019s a power in total carefreeness. The fact that \u201cScary Movie\u201d will almost certainly get a sequel, despite the abysmal reactions, is a great thing. That \u201cStop! That! Train!\u201d is the first planned film in a \u201cDrag Race\u201d universe is even better. I\u2019ll watch five more \u2014 hell, 10 more \u2014 of each, even if it\u2019s just in pursuit of that one gut-busting laugh.<\/p>

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