“Scary Movie 2” is about as good as a sequel to “Scary Movie” could ever hope to be as it is actually better than the original film. The first one was so unbelievably bad that pretty much anything would be better than it. Instead of taking on pre-dominantly the slasher genre (like the first film), “Scary Movie 2” mainly focuses on haunted house films such as “Poltergeist” and “The Exorcist”.

In “Scary Movie 2”, a bunch of teenagers find themselves in a haunted house. Creepy ghosts show up and we’re subjected to an endless stream of bodily fluids flying towards the screen as the film pokes fun at (or rather merely references) “Hollow Man”, “Hannibal”, “Charlie’s Angels” and a ton of other films.

The characters in this film are pathetic. There are some big names such as Tim Curry (“Congo”), who I would say is easily the most entertaining but he gets very little screen time. Most of the characters sit around taking drugs, performing sexual acts and all the sort-of crude stuff but nothing remotely funny. I remember spoof films such as “Airplane!”, “The Naked Gun”, “Spaceballs” and “High Anxiety” and those films had amusing characters but “Scary Movie 2” doesn’t offer any amusing characters.

If you wanted to see a man sexually assault a toy clown, another man put his privates inside a turkey and a woman urinating for a long period of time then I’m sure that you’ll want to see “Scary Movie 2” but for everybody else, this is an awful film from beginning to end. Hardly any of the jokes here work. The only thing really impressed me in this film was that it wasn’t as bad as the first “Scary Movie” and that’s about the highest praise that I can give this picture. Apparently the series doesn’t end with this one and maybe each new one is better than the last but even if that’s true, it will be some time before there is a “Scary Movie” entry that is worth watching.