The Scary Movie series is notable because in spite of universal hatred from critics and many harsh reviews on IMDb, it continues to be successful enough to keep on keeping on. I have enjoyed all the Scary Movies; they are what they are, and if you just don't like silly, offensive, juvenile humor at least a little bit you aren't going to like any of them. But they are always a fun bag of pop culture humor and cruel pratfalls.As with all the films in the series, the humor is hit and miss. Some things I found very funny, like the running gag of terrible parenting, and some I could have done without, like the final Tom Cruise parody (which, unlike most of the humor, will make no sense to anyone not familiar with the original interview). Overall I felt that, while the lows weren't any lower than usual, the highs weren't quite as high. It is often laugh out funny, but it's rarely hysterically funny. But what can I say, I always have fun with these.

I don't know why I bothered watching this, because I knew I wouldn't like it. I didn't like any of the previous movies, but because I've seen all the kinds of films being spoofed, I kind of ended up watching it anyway. Sadly, SCARY MOVIE 4 only raised a few chuckles during its running time, although it's still a slight improvement over the exceptionally stupid first and second films in this series.There aren't so many films being spoofed this time around; the format instead picks about four or five major ones and kind of links them all together with a would-be storyline. So we get an opening sequence based on SAW (the best bit, actually), then follow-ups involving spins on THE GRUDGE (which I found a bit racist), THE VILLAGE, and WAR OF THE WORLDS.Sadly, the terrible Anna Faris is STILL finding work (and as awful as ever, dragging every moment she appears in down), but some of the supporting actors fare better. It's particularly fine to see Leslie Nielsen, still on top form playing the US president and providing most of the (few) laughs along the way.

David Zucker - he is the most well respected spoof writer/director out there (with Friendberg/Seltzer being the least respected). He is most known for Airplane and The Naked Gun series. These Scary Movie movies are nothing short of giving crappy horror films the same humour and spoofing style as Airplane and The Naked Gun, the first 2 were done okay-ish but this one and the third one hit the humour right on the head.The movie's plot doesn't really matter, you just watch it for laughs and if you look at comedy movies that way you will say this one is the best. I don't know why the third one of this series reigns superior it just has something to it that isn't in the other three (I don't know because it's a long time since I've seen it).The Saw spoof was nothing short of hilarious - I haven't seen Saw but that was just genius as far as dumb comedy goes. The overall impact of this film is that I like it - it's the second best out of the series.

This last part of the series is a good ending even though this flick is not as strong as the third part that surprised with a great acting and many original ideas. I must also admit that some of the movies that are parodied in here are not amongst my favourite ones as it was rather the case in the third part as I didn't like at all "War of the worlds" and "The village" that I found somewhat boring and too ambitious so that I couldn't even laugh about seeing them parodied and accorded further attention. In here, the ideas are a little bit less unique but the jokes are still over the top, especially as Leslie Nielsen plays once again the role of a very dumb and funny president of the United States of America and he alone is worth watching this flick as he adds once again something mature and unique to the series. Especially the jokes about Brokeback Mountain, Million Dollar Baby and Saw are still hilarious.Even though those series were finally rather childish with a very bad first part, an acceptable and entertaining second and fourth part and a really good third part, I would like to see a true fifth part in the future as there have been many movies in the past years that should be parodied by this sympathetic crew.