Scary Movie 3

Theatrical Release Date: 2003 10 24 (USA)

UPC: 031398134411

Studio: Fox Home Ent. (lgf)

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Profanity, Slapstick Violence]

Summary: While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen. This time around, aim is taken at such horror blockbusters as Signs and The Ring, while films of other genres, including Independence Day, 8 Mile, and The Matrix, are also lampooned. The plot finds Cindy (Faris) trying to help the president (Nielsen) thwart an alien attack while also facing crop circles and a mysterious video tape. In the spirit of the two Matrix sequels, Scary Movie 3 was shot back-to-back with Scary Movie 4. Queen Latifah, Charlie Sheen, and Eddie Griffin also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Audio commentary with director David Zucker, producer Robert K. Weiss, and writers Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
"Making Scary Movie 3" featurette
"Making Scary Movie 3... For Real" featurette
"Hulk vs. Aliens - Behind the Scenes of the Alternate Ending" featurette
Alternate ending with optional audio commentary
Deleted and extended scenes with optional audio commentary
Outtakes and Bloopers

Scary Movie 3

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/20/2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DHMA null

Runtime: 85 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Tracie Cooper

The third in the Scary Movie franchise, this film is little more than a mediocre episode of Saturday Night Live. Indeed, the focus on certain "scary" movies -- like 8 Mile and The Matrix -- are noticeably lackluster when compared to the mini-parodies SNL alumni Mike Myers and Will Ferrell produced for the annual MTV Movie Awards with much greater success. That said, despite the abundance of awkward pop-culture references (it's doubtful that this movie's target audience will catch Leslie Nielsen's small homage to 1980's Airplane!), done-to-death jokes, and lack of any true laugh-out-loud moments, Scary Movie 3 does deliver a joyful, equal-opportunity disrespect for all things politically correct, as well as several well-aimed jabs at modern news media outlets. Clad in cartoonish Catholic school regalia, professional bombshells Pam Anderson and Jenny McCarthy offer a surprisingly self-aware send-up of The Ring's ill-fated video watchers, thus setting the premise for the rest of the movie: the hapless broadcast news journalist Cindy Campbell's (Scary Movie veteran Anna Faris) effort to bring a recent onslaught of crop circles to the forefront of her sex-obsessed station, all the while protecting her friends and family from watching the killer tape. As fate would have it, the crop circles only become the top story when her ratings-hungry television network airs 24-hour footage of the video, in doing so causing an alien race to die off in droves after viewing it via radio waves in space. Certainly, the story is absurd enough to make a funny movie, but the overly heavy reliance on slapstick and bland performances all around keep Scary Movie 3 from reaching its potential. Charlie Sheen's character doesn't so much resemble Mel Gibson's role in Signs as it proves virtually indiscernible from his performance as the angst-ridden Topper Harley in Hot Shots! In the same vein, Simon Rex's boring take on Eminem's rise to stardom is given an inexplicable amount of screen time while Leslie Nielsen, Regina Hall, Eddie Griffin, and Queen Latifah are grossly underutilized. In short, Scary Movie 3 isn't as good as the original, nor is it as bad as Scary Movie 2 or Not Another Teen Movie, a notable companion in over-the-top genre spoofs gone wrong -- perhaps Scary Movie 4 will get it right. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Tim Stack  Actor 
Method Man  Actor 
Darrell Hammond  Actor 
William Forsythe  Actor 
Peter Boyle  Actor 
Brad Weston  Executive Producer 
Pat Proft  Screenwriter 
Bob Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Harvey Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Robert Weiss  Producer 
David Zucker  Director 
Andrew Rona  Executive Producer 
Craig Mazin  Screenwriter 
James L. Venable  Composer (Music Score) 
Anna Faris  Actor 
Anthony Anderson  Actor 
Leslie Nielsen  Actor 
Camryn Manheim  Actor 
Simon Rex  Actor 
George Carlin  Actor 
Queen Latifah  Actor 
Eddie Griffin  Actor 
Denise Richards  Actor 
Regina Hall  Actor 
Charlie Sheen  Actor 
Drew Mikusha  Actor 
Jianna Ballard  Actor 
Pamela Anderson  Actor 
Jenny McCarthy  Actor 
Marny Eng  Actor 
Jeremy Piven  Actor 
Carson Ward  Actor 
Elaine Klimaszewski  Actor 
Diane Klimaszewski  Actor 
Simon Cowell  Actor 
Fat Joe  Actor 
D.L. Hughley  Actor 
Ja Rule  Actor 
Master P  Actor 
Macy Gray  Actor 
Redman  Actor 
Raekwon  Actor 
RZA  Actor 
U-God  Actor 

Country: USA