Scary Movie 3

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Scary Movie 3

Theatrical Poster of Scary Movie 3.
Directed by David Zucker
Produced by Robert K. Weiss
David Zucker
Written by Screenplay:
Craig Mazin
Pat Proft
Based On Characters Created By:
Shawn Wayans
Marlon Wayans
Buddy Johnson
Phil Beauman
Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Starring Anna Faris
Charlie Sheen
Simon Rex
Leslie Nielsen
Regina Hall
Music by James Venable
Frank Fitzpatrick (Music Supervisor)
Distributed by Dimension Films
Release date(s) October 24, 2003
Running time 84 min.
Language English
Budget $45 million
Gross revenue $220,673,217 (worldwide)
Preceded by Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Followed by Scary Movie 4 (2006)
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Scary Movie 3 (2003) is an American comedy film directed by David Zucker and is the third film of the Scary Movie franchise.

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[edit] Plot

It begins with two friends, Kate (Jenny McCarthy) and Becca (Pamela Anderson). Kate tells Becca that she watched a tape which supposedly kills people seven days after watching it. After Becca goes downstairs for drinks, she returns and sees Kate drowned and purple lying on a chair; Becca however, is oblivious that her friend is dead, even when Kate's head falls off. At the last second, the TV turns on and Tabitha, the ghost girl, leaps for Becca.

In a farm outside Washington D.C., Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen) is woken up by a little girl screaming, and accidentally bumps into a lamp after getting up. Tom goes outside to investigate the screaming and he meets up with his brother George (Simon Rex), who tells him the dogs are acting strange (the dogs are playing Julius Ceasar, smoking a waterpipe and riding a tractor). After both men look inside the corn field they discover Tom's daughter screaming and the reason of her screams: the crop field has a huge crop circle in it. After seeing the circle, George asks "what do you think it means?" even though when it's shown from above the circle's are shown to be a huge arrow with a sign pointing to the farm that reads "ATTACK HERE".

In Washington, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) argues with her boss about the sexual content the news show reports, and she even goes as far as opening her top and revealing her breasts in a small blue-ish grey bra to show there's nothing interesting about them. After her problem at work, Cindy goes to pick up her nephew Cody at school, who according to Cindy's friend and Cody's teacher Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) has been having visions. Then George Logan arrives to pick up his niece and winds up inviting Cindy and Brenda to a rap-off he's going to participate in. Back in the Logan farm, Tom is told by a friend that he was the trucker who accidentally crushed Tom's wife, Annie Logan (Denise Richards) into a tree and killed her. After this George prepares to leave for the rap-off, Tom tries to talk him out of it, but he fails. George, angry that his brother tried to pull him out of his dream, screams at Tom when he gets on the bus, and the door accidentally locks itself on George's face.

At the rap-off George meets his old friends CJ (Kevin Hart) and Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) who are going to be the rap-off judges since the original judge, Simon Cowell (played by himself) was shot dead by the audience when he gave another rap battle a horrible review. George is pitted off against Fat Joe (played by himself) and he wins, but he puts on his hood (which resembles a Ku Klux Klan uniform) and gets thrown out of a window by the audience. Cindy goes to Brenda's house that night and Brenda tells Cindy that she watched the killer tape last week and that she needs protection for the night, Brenda then suddenly has a heart attack, but it turns out to be a prank by Brenda. After many more pranks, Tabitha the ghost girl comes out of Brenda's TV and Cindy doesn't believe Brenda when she tells her. However Tabitha drips water on Brenda's new carpet and she gets pissed off, then she starts kicking Tabitha's ass until Tabitha knocks her over and strangles her. Cindy then goes to where Brenda is and finds her dead behind the couch.

At Brenda's funeral, Cindy gets the killer tape which Brenda watched and takes it home with her, also George mistakes The Wake as Brenda is not dead and tries to revive her with a lamp's wires, only blowing up the body and he gets thrown out the window by the mourners. Cindy takes the tape back home and watches it after that she gets a call from Tabitha who tells her she will die in seven days. Cindy asks Tabitha if holidays count since Martin Luther King day is coming up, the voice says Martin Luther King day is not a real holiday and Cindy contradicts her which pisses off Tabitha who says "Geez lady ,I'm giving you seven damn days, if you want I can just come up there and kill the shit out of you right now!" and hangs up. Cindy goes to do some inquiries and leaves George to look after Cody, but when she returns home, she finds George knocked out (who was playing Yatzee with Cody and got five equal dice, then he got up and bumped his head on a shelf) and Cody who has just watched the killer tape, just in the moment, CJ and Mahalik arrive and CJ comments his aunt Aunt Shaneequa is an oracle and she could help Cindy.

Cindy goes with Aunt Shaneequa (Queen Latifah) and her husband Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and Cindy gives them a copy of the killer tape. After watching a segment of it Aunt Shaneequa discovers a backmasked picture of a lighthouse and then gets into a fight with a woman from the video, but she tells Cindy to go find that lighthouse from the tape. At work Cindy looks through various pictures of lighthouses and finds the one in the tape, but she leaves the tape behind and her boss grabs it. Cindy arrives at the lighthouse where she meets The Architect who tells her the real story of Tabitha and how the killer tape got out in the world, The Architect had rented Pootie Tang but accidentally returned the killer tape in Pootie Tang's box. He also says that Tabitha was their evil daughter and that his wife drowned her in the family's farm well while he thought a time-out would have worked. Meanwhile in the White House, President Harris (Leslie Nielsen) and his main agent, Agent Johnson (Ja Rule) beging worrying about the Alien Invasion warnings that Cindy Campbell had given in the news show and after destroying a Mother Teresa award ceremony believing that a lot of people there were Aliens in disguise, Johnson and President Harris go to look for Cindy in the Logan Farm.

George, Cindy and Tom hide in the basement.
George, Cindy and Tom hide in the basement.

In the Logan Farm, Tom has everybody in the house go into the basement for refuge while he, George and Mahalik go outside to fight off the aliens. Suddenly, two aliens sneak up behind Mahalik, Tom and George when Secret Serviceman Jones and President Baxter Harris arrive and accidentally run them over. Baxter tells them he came looking for Cindy since he claims that she may hold the key in defeating the aliens. Baxter then notices the UFOs mistakening them as the Air Force in those "new round planes." Just as the UFOs get closer, CJ arrives with an army of rappers and among them are Master P, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Redman, Macy Gray and U-God. However, they have an argument and shoot each other dead. After that, the aliens strangle Tom, George, Mahalik, CJ, Baxter, and Secret Serviceman Jones. Mahalik breaks free and knocks the head off of one of the aliens claiming "without their heads, they're powerless." The aliens' leader (voiced by Tom Kenny who also voiced the other aliens present) talks and reveals they came to earth because they need to kill Tabitha since they watched the killer tape, believing it to be Pootie Tang. When Mahalik asks why they were choking them, the aliens explain that strangalation is how they say hello. When George asks how they say goodbye, an alien kicks him in the balls. If they thought that was strange, one of the aliens shows them that they pee through their pointer finger which disgusts Tom at the moment that one of the aliens put his pointer in his mouth. President Baxter Harris quotes that the humans and aliens aren't that different after all and he pees through his pointer finger.

In the basement, Cindy recognizes a shot from the killer tape and then makes a hole in the wood and she finds the well where Tabitha drowned; suddenly Tabitha appears behind her. George goes to look for Cindy and then finds Tabitha attacking her, after a short battle Tabitha pretends the curse to be broken so she can attack them (Cindy: "So you won't be evil anymore?" Tabitha: "Nah, i'm just screwing with ya!") but as she prepares to attack, President Harris opens the door behind Tabitha and knocks her into the well. George seal the well and the curse is over. George and Cindy get married with everybody, including the aliens and Aunt Shaneequa in the ceremony. As George and Cindy drive away they accidentally leave Cody behind and when they rev up the car they are about to hit Cody but stop just in time, however a car coming from another direction hits Cody and throw him through the air as the movie ends and the credits roll.

[edit] Parodies

The plot of the film intertwines parodies of several other films such as:

  • Airplane! - Leslie Nielsen's line "I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you" is repeated multiple times later in the film.
  • Air Force One - The President refers to a picture of Harrison Ford in the White House as "President Ford."
  • The Ring - Main Parody
  • The Others - Michael Jackson Scene
  • 8 Mile - The rap scene, CJ throwing paint at people from the car.
  • Malibu's Most Wanted - The rap scene and when George gets thrown out of the club
  • Signs - Main Parody
  • The Matrix - Brenda vs. samara and The Oracle and Orpheus deleted scene.
  • Darkness Falls - lighthouse scene
  • The Matrix Reloaded - The scene with the Architect.
  • Jeopardy! - Brief scene where the scores show up on the screens inside the lighthouse.
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - samara is swinging a chainsaw over her head.
  • Pootie Tang - A copy was rented by the Architect character and the cursed tape was sent back instead.
  • Lord of the Rings - The beginning of the movie with the voice on the phone saying "I'm coming for you, my precious."
  • American Idol - During the rap-off scene, Simon Cowell, the sarcastic British judge of American Idol, is asked to comment on a rap battle had had just viewed, and he gives it a horrible review, leading the pistol-wielding audience to riddle him with bullets.
  • Bruce Almighty - When Ross Giggins (Cindy's co-worker) starts saying random stuff that is typed up on the screen, and makes a fool of himself, just like Evan Baxter in Bruce Almighty.
  • The Internet - When Cindy is researching lighthouses and all these popups appear on the screen (in the hundreds).

[edit] Cast

[edit] Rapper cameos

In one memorable scene many rappers appeared to assist in the climactic battle with the aliens and a shootout ensued between them in which no one survived. They were played by:

[edit] Wayans Brothers

Despite brothers Marlon, Shawn, and Keenan having starred in/wrote the first two movies, they were not involved in Scary Movie 3.

[edit] Alternate scenes

The DVD edition includes a director's audio commentary, several deleted scenes and alternative endings (with optional commentary). A "3.5" special DVD was also released, but contained the same material as the original DVD with an unrated version of the film that is largely identical with more scenes.

In an alternate ending, Cindy is told Cody doesn't exist, after hitting a few people in the face with a shovel, Cindy tells everybody who isn't real to stand over at a different spot, Cody goes over there, but is followed by Santa Claus. Followed by that, the aliens begin to invade but George stops them by transforming into The Hulk. President Harris tries to Hulk Out, but ends up soiling his pants. The cast then gets into a car with the President, but are horrified to learn that the driver is the man who accidentally killed Tom's wife.

One of the scenes that appeared on the Extended DVD named Scary Movie 3.5 was part of the unrated feature. After Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy shut off the TV, the two compliment each other on their good looks. Anderson then mentions if McCarthy wants her "shaved pussy", but it turns out to be a furless kitten.

In an extended scene, it is revealed that the person who runs Cody down during the end is Michael Jackson.


[edit] In other media

Scary Movie 3 quotes and snippets where featured in the DJ Cryalie track "I Do It For You".

[edit] Box office

The film came in at number 1 at the box office for 2 weeks in a row.

  • Gross Worldwide Takings: $220,673,217
    • US Gross Domestic Takings: $ 110,003,217
    • International Takings (outside the US): $110,670,000

[edit] Translations

  • Portuguese: Scary Movie: Um Susto de Filme 3
  • Portuguese (Brazil): Todo Mundo Em Pânico 3
  • French (Canada): Film de peur 3
  • Croatian : Mrak Film 3
  • Polish : Straszny Film 3
  • Latin American Spanish: Scary Movie: No Hay 2 Sin 3
  • Turkish: "Korkunc Bir Film 3
  • Hungary: Horrora Akadva 3

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Preceded by
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre		 Box office number-one films of 2003 (USA)
October 26, 2003 – November 2, 2003		 Succeeded by
The Matrix Revolutions
v • d • e
The Scary Movie series
Films
Scary Movie • 2 • 3 • 4
Cast members
Crew members
v • d • e
Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker
David Zucker • Jim Abrahams • Jerry Zucker
Collaborative works
David Zucker films
Jim Abrahams films
Jerry Zucker films