The critics hated it. I laughed—and honestly, that matters more.
Genre: Comedy / Horror | Runtime: 1h 36m | Release: 2026 | Spoilers: None
The reviews for Scary Movie 6 have not exactly been kind.
Critics have called it dated, lazy, predictable and painfully unfunny.
And yet, I sat down to watch it—and laughed.
Not a polite little chuckle. Not the kind of laugh you force because you desperately want a film to be funny.
I actually laughed.
For 96 minutes, I was able to switch off, forget about everything else and disappear into the completely ridiculous world of Scary Movie again.
Sometimes, that is more than enough.
What It’s About
Twenty-six years after surviving their first encounter with a suspiciously familiar masked killer, Cindy, Brenda, Shorty and Ray find themselves pulled into another completely unhinged slasher nightmare.
The original gang is older.
Are they wiser?
Absolutely not.
With Ghostface back on the hunt, the film throws its returning characters into a chaotic mixture of modern horror parodies, pop-culture references, crude jokes and deliberately ridiculous set pieces.
There is technically a plot holding it all together.
But let’s be honest: nobody is watching Scary Movie for an intricate narrative.
We are here for the stupidity.
The Review
The Critics May Have Missed the Point
Scary Movie 6 currently sits with an extremely low critics’ score—and I can understand some of the complaints.
The story is chaotic.
Some of the references are obvious.
Several jokes are completely ridiculous.
But this is Scary Movie.
It has never pretended to be intelligent, sophisticated cinema. It exists to take popular horror films, strip away every trace of seriousness and ask:
“How stupid can we make this?”
That is precisely what this film does.
Judging it as though it should deliver clever, carefully constructed satire almost feels like reviewing a fast-food meal and complaining that it wasn’t fine dining.
Nobody ordered fine dining.
We ordered nonsense—and the nonsense arrived.
Comedy Is Allowed to Be Stupid Again
What I loved most was how unapologetically silly it felt.
There has been a noticeable absence of this kind of comedy in recent years: films that are not trying to teach us something, begin a cinematic universe or deliver a meaningful social message beneath every joke.
Sometimes, I just want to watch something stupid.
I want obvious punchlines.
I want physical comedy.
I want characters behaving like complete idiots.
I want jokes that make me think, “That is absolutely ridiculous,” while laughing anyway.
Scary Movie 6 gave me exactly that.
It brought back a style of comedy that many people may consider dated—but which I had genuinely missed.
Not every laugh needs to be intelligent.
Not every joke needs to survive a ten-page cultural analysis.
Sometimes, funny is simply funny.
The Original Gang Still Has It
Bringing back Cindy, Brenda, Shorty and Ray was absolutely the right decision.
Anna Faris and Regina Hall still have the wonderfully chaotic chemistry that made the earlier films so memorable. Cindy remains permanently bewildered, while Brenda can turn the smallest reaction into one of the funniest moments in a scene.
Then there are Marlon and Shawn Wayans, whose return gives the film the energy and comic identity that the franchise had been missing.
Seeing the four of them together again does carry a heavy dose of nostalgia—but it does not feel completely empty.
They understand these characters.
They understand the tone.
More importantly, they understand that the audience is not looking for subtlety.
The humour is loud, crude, childish and frequently inappropriate.
In other words, it feels like Scary Movie again.
Not Every Joke Lands
Does every joke work?
Absolutely not.
Some scenes go on longer than they need to. Certain references feel as though they were included simply because the writers recognised something popular, rather than because they had a particularly strong joke to make about it.
There are moments where the film throws so much at the screen that it almost becomes exhausting.
But the jokes arrive so quickly that when one fails, another is already on its way.
And enough of them landed for me.
That is the part that matters.
Comedy is one of the most subjective things we consume. A joke that leaves one person staring blankly at the screen can have somebody else crying with laughter.
The critics clearly were not laughing.
I was.
Ninety-Six Minutes of Escapism
This is where Scary Movie 6 ultimately won me over.
For 96 minutes, I did not have to think.
I did not have to follow six different timelines, study the symbolism of a closing shot or wait for the film to reveal its deeper meaning.
I could simply sit back and enjoy something completely unserious.
There is genuine value in that.
Life is serious enough. The news is serious enough. Even many of our biggest films now seem determined to carry the emotional weight of the world.
Sometimes, we need a film that proudly has nothing profound to say.
A film that lets us enter its ridiculous world, laugh at complete nonsense and leave feeling lighter than when we arrived.
That is what Scary Movie 6 did for me.
The DC Truth Box
Scary Movie 6 does not need to be clever enough to impress the critics. It needs to be stupid enough to make its audience laugh.
And I laughed.
Final Verdict
Scary Movie 6 is not sophisticated, polished or particularly interested in making sense.
That is also part of its charm.
It brings back the original characters, restores the Wayans’ chaotic influence and delivers the kind of shamelessly goofy humour that has largely disappeared from mainstream cinema.
Some jokes miss.
Others are dated.
A few probably should not work at all—and yet somehow do.
Despite the brutal reviews and low ratings, I loved it for what it was: 96 minutes of silly, stupid escapism that allowed me to switch off and properly laugh.
The critics can keep their serious analysis.
I had fun.
And sometimes, fun is the entire point.
★★★★☆
THE DC VERDICT
Unapologetically stupid, proudly ridiculous and far more enjoyable than its brutal reviews suggest.
Have you seen Scary Movie 6? Did it make you laugh—or should the franchise have stayed in the 2000s?
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