The Bottom Line : More of the same, no matter how lame.
Opens : April 17 (Open Road Films)
Production companies: Automatik Entertainment, Baby Way Productions
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Essence Atkins, Gabriel Iglesias, Ashley Rickards, Affion Crockett, Steele Stebbins, Cedric the Entertainer, Missi Pyle, Hayes MacArthur
Director: Michael Tiddes
Screenwriters: Rick Alvarez, Marlon Wayans
Producers: Rick Alvarez, Marlon Wayans
Executive producers: Stuart Ford, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Todd King, Steven Squillante
Director of photography: David Ortkiese
Production designer: Ermanno Di Febo-Orsini
Costume designer: Ariyela Wald-Cohain
Music: Jesse Voccia
Editor: Tim Mirkovich
Rated R, 87 minutes
Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly and Gabriel Iglesias co-star with support from Cedric the Entertainer in a follow-up to last year’s horror-movie spoof.
With the Scary Movie franchise, the Wayans brothers tapped into a lucrative vein of lowbrow humor parodying popular horror releases. Marlon Wayans attempted to extend that run with 2013's A Haunted House, which tanked with critics but paid off nicely at the box office. While critical response is likely to be replicated on the sequel, a $40 million gross may not be, given the film's tapped-out formula and lack of differentiation from the original.
A year after his ex-girlfriend Kisha (Essence Atkins), possessed by a tenacious demon, gets summarily dispatched, Malcolm (Wayans) prepares to move in with new girlfriend Megan (Jaime Pressly) and her kids Becky (Ashley Rickards) and Wyatt (Steele Stebbins). Next door neighbor Miguel (Gabriel Iglesias) appears relieved that the house is occupied again, but by examining footage from his extensive network of in-home video cameras, Malcolm soon discovers that it was never fully vacated, after Becky finds a mysterious wooden box in the basement and Megan retrieves a creepy looking doll in 19th century dress from an old wardrobe. Meanwhile, Wyatt starts developing a fixation on an invisible friend named "Tony," who proves highly disapproving of Malcolm.
Opens : April 17 (Open Road Films)
Production companies: Automatik Entertainment, Baby Way Productions
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Essence Atkins, Gabriel Iglesias, Ashley Rickards, Affion Crockett, Steele Stebbins, Cedric the Entertainer, Missi Pyle, Hayes MacArthur
Director: Michael Tiddes
Screenwriters: Rick Alvarez, Marlon Wayans
Producers: Rick Alvarez, Marlon Wayans
Executive producers: Stuart Ford, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Todd King, Steven Squillante
Director of photography: David Ortkiese
Production designer: Ermanno Di Febo-Orsini
Costume designer: Ariyela Wald-Cohain
Music: Jesse Voccia
Editor: Tim Mirkovich
Rated R, 87 minutes
Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly and Gabriel Iglesias co-star with support from Cedric the Entertainer in a follow-up to last year’s horror-movie spoof.
With the Scary Movie franchise, the Wayans brothers tapped into a lucrative vein of lowbrow humor parodying popular horror releases. Marlon Wayans attempted to extend that run with 2013's A Haunted House, which tanked with critics but paid off nicely at the box office. While critical response is likely to be replicated on the sequel, a $40 million gross may not be, given the film's tapped-out formula and lack of differentiation from the original.
A year after his ex-girlfriend Kisha (Essence Atkins), possessed by a tenacious demon, gets summarily dispatched, Malcolm (Wayans) prepares to move in with new girlfriend Megan (Jaime Pressly) and her kids Becky (Ashley Rickards) and Wyatt (Steele Stebbins). Next door neighbor Miguel (Gabriel Iglesias) appears relieved that the house is occupied again, but by examining footage from his extensive network of in-home video cameras, Malcolm soon discovers that it was never fully vacated, after Becky finds a mysterious wooden box in the basement and Megan retrieves a creepy looking doll in 19th century dress from an old wardrobe. Meanwhile, Wyatt starts developing a fixation on an invisible friend named "Tony," who proves highly disapproving of Malcolm.
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