"It's a truism to say that the spoof is the lowest form of the cinematic art. These films are essentially parasitic, recycling ideas from other movies that, when they first emerged, may have seemed clever or frightening or funny - but, when run into the ground by lesser talents, have merely become stupid. I know this because, for reasons I don't want to go into, I had to sit through all four Scary Movie...

...Scary Movie itself had no such claims to smart-arse acuity, being simply a ragbag of lame jokes and low-rent cameos, recycled from the still-warm corpse of a much cleverer movie, only four years old. But here's the thing: Scary Movie made lots and lots of money - almost half as much again ($150m) as Scream. So, as a spoof of a spoof, Scary Movie may be the most pathetically reductive film in the history of cinema; but you can't argue with the figures. People loved it, damn them."

"Ha ha! Oh gosh! It's just like that "Deal" show, ha ha--I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing--except it's Spartans playing it! Spartans playing Deal or No Deal!Ha ha! This movie looks hilarious, how it sort of recreates something from recent pop culture memory, except in a slightly altered way! Classic! I hope they also mention Paris Hilton or, like, farts! I know those things!"