Scary Movie 6’s trailer is here and some folks are upset already. The long-running spoof comedy series’ latest entry reunites the core cast. We’re skewing modern cinema now and that means jokes about Sinners, Weapons and more. The tone of the reboot effort is established the moment you see Ghostface stabbing someone on a subway. As a hysterical onlooker cries out that “he stabbed her,” the victim replies, “My pronouns are they/them.” Reader, my eyes rolled.
It seems like every time one of our comedic heroes from the past comes back, they have an air of “old man yells at cloud.” Scary Movie 6 looks to add another entry of “Oh, these progressive kids are annoying” to an already roaring fire. (We already did this satire better in Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Heck, throw on Queens of the Dead and treat yourself. There’s tons of this stuff!) No matter how fresh a comedic team thinks this approach is, there’s a distinct feeling we’ve been here before. And, yes, we have back in the Y2K-era’s birthplace.
