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Dimension Films, DZE, Brad Grey Pictures,

Charlie Sheen, Molly Shannon, Lindsay Lohan, Simon Rex, Ashley Tisdale, Jerry O’Connell, Kate Walsh, Heather Locklear, Roland Powell, Chris Elliott, Katt Williams, Terry Crews, Erica Ash, Marisa Saks

Dan Sanders (Simon Rex) and his wife Jody (Ashley Tisdale) bring home their lost nieces and nephew into their home to raise as their own. But as time passes paranormal things quickly escalate so that they place hidden cameras around the house to find out what is going on. This naturally reveals that they are being haunted by a demon who is after the children. The Scary Movie franchise is back to spoof the latest horror films in pop culture, such films as Black Swan, the Paranormal Activity films, Hunger Games, Inception, and many others.

The Wayans brothers are gone, Anna Faris is gone, but a bunch of new stars have signed on for this joke-o-rama. This is a typical Scary Movie movie, like the 4 that came before it, although this one is a bit more movie satire and a lot less really gross stuff like some of the older one have been. Very much like Airplane spoofed the Airport movies, this one sticks to skewering the films and a little less with the most disgusting stuff. Yet it’s funny. I don’t know why I like these kinds of movies. But I have always been a sucker for satire, ever since the days when I was a kid who read every issue of Mad Magazine. Some of the funniest things I remember are things I learned from Mad. These movies aren’t going to give you much learning, or life lessons, but it is kind of an enjoyable evening watching this film, and trying to identify the films they’re lampooning. Not much redeeming social value, but just giggly fun. If you’re a fan of these types of movies, then this is pretty good. If you find them sophomoric and stupid, then that’s what this is too. So it’s up to you. I found it really humorous and enjoyed watching it very much, but I have a funny spot for these satirical movies.

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CD2 Films, Mad Choice, Polymorphic Pictures

James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate, Katt Williams, Bette Midler, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, Wallace Shawn,  Roger Moore, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Clarke Dun can, Chris O’Donnell, Jack McBrayer, Fred Armisen, Kiernan Shipka

The battle between Cats and Dogs has been going on for centuries.  But in this war, one feline took it a step too far.  Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for MEOWS (a cat spy organization) has gone rogue and has a plan to bring her canine enemies under her power, but also to take down the rest of the cats, and rule the world of cats and dogs herself.  She uses and evil invention (a low frequency signal only dogs will react to) to turn dogs into her own personal slave robots.  They must do what she says.  She had an ugly hairless cat henchman sent off on a the quest to conquer the world.  The rest of the cats and the dogs have to band together to try to overthrow her and save mankind!

I really did not like this movie at all.  I didn’t think any of it was really funny, and although they had tons of stars lending their voices to the characters, there story is really bad.  They are mostly puns.  Roger Moore’s character, for example, is named Tab Lazenby.  How cute.  Make fun of another Bond actor.  The plot is like a bad “Pinky and the Brain” epsiode, except that Pinky and the Brain was somewhat funny, and only lasted about 15 minutes at a shot.  Truly I would much rather attend a Phineas and Ferb marathon that this film! It would be much, much more entertaining.   It was so boring that I could hardly make it through.   Seriously, 1950’s Saturday Morning adventure cartoons were more interesting than this stuff.  The original Cats and Dogs came out a decade ago.  What happened in the 9 years that have passed since then?  Why this stinky sequel?  I don’t think a little kid would be able to enjoy this film.

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