Continuing the story some time after the events of the second film, Scream 3 kicks off with Cotton Weary, the kinda baddie from earlier in the series, receiving one of the iconic Scream phone calls that tells him that a killer is waiting for him at his home in Hollywood. Worried about his girlfriend, Cotton hurries home where the ghostface killer is indeed waiting and who proceeds to murder Cotton and his missus.
The cop assigned to the case (none other than Patrick Dempsey made famous by girly tear-jerker Grays Anatomy) contacts Gale Weathers (played by Courtney Cox, made famous by girly laugh-fest Friends) , the authority on all things to do with the gang from Woodsboro for a bit of advice. Gale heads to tinsel-town to check out what's going on there, and she discovers her old boyfriend Dewey (played by David Arquette, made famous by.... fuck knows) working as an advisor to the producers of the latest Stab movie.
Gale and Dewey play detective and look into what's occurring and what it has to do with the Stab movie, all the time without the help of Sidney, the main chick from the first two movies, who has taken to the life of a recluse as she's more than a little bit concerned about being brutally murdered at any moment. One of the actresses from Stab is bumped off by the killer who then takes to tormenting Sidney by phone. The long-distance needling does the trick and Sidney goes to Hollywood to confront the latest in a string of potential murderers to find out just why everyone's been so keen to kill her for all these years...
Nooooooooo!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Jesus, Noooooooooooooo!!!!
Fucking Hell, it can't be true, please say it isn't true!!!!
Yep, yer man from Gray's Anatomy plays the cop!
Scream 3 starts out really badly and just gets worse with every passing minute. In fact, Scream 3 is so bad it's barely watchable at all. The opening scene with Cotton Weary sets the tone of the film as an expensively produced, yet slapped together mess of a production. The setting has changed again, there's a bunch of new people to be killed off, and some stupid reasoning has been concocted to gel the whole thing together, but that's it; there's no real thought or feeling put into the film and there's no way it could ever make you believe that someone really wanted to make it in order to fulfil a burning desire to tell a story that was important to them.
In the absence of any guiding principle, the "script" was mashed up and twisted and bares all the hallmarks of having been rewritten while the film was being made. As a result Scream 3 doesn't know what it wanted to be and so ends up mostly as an outright comedy, though it's not clear that this was all together intentional.
In the absence of any guiding principle, the "script" was mashed up and twisted and bares all the hallmarks of having been rewritten while the film was being made. As a result Scream 3 doesn't know what it wanted to be and so ends up mostly as an outright comedy, though it's not clear that this was all together intentional.
With the setting moved to Hollywood the movie couldn't help itself and focused more on the oddities of that city and the type of people who live there instead of worrying itself about giving the audience a good old fright. As a comedy set in Hollywood Scream 3 bears a striking resemblance not to any of the Scary Movies, which is the now obvious comparison, but more to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, to the point that there are a lot of cameos in Scream 3 taken straight from that film, cameos like Carrie Fisher as well as Jay and Silent Bob themselves, I shit you not!
Fucking Jay & Silent Bob in Scream 3
As part three in the series a big deal is made about movie trilogies and the rules that allegedly govern them; things like how all the rules are changed and even main characters can be killed off. With all the talk about trilogies in the film they leave out the obvious – that a lot of third films are not wanted. Some are, like when the second two films in a series are really a two part story themselves, like Empire and Jedi or even the less well loved Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, but most are more like the third X-Men or Spider-Man movies. Just like the worst trilogies that overplay something, with Scream 3, you've had your fill of people getting stabbed to death, it was really time for something new.
The acting is atrocious, Courtney Cox is diabolical in Scream 3, and dragging out the same old core characters and then adding in some new ones is too simple a ploy – if a character wasn’t in the last film then their chances of surviving this one were slim from the outset. The characters in Scream 3 are so weak they even had to squeeze in characters from earlier films that were dead, that's how hard up they were.
Something has always bothered me about the Scream films and it really bothered me third time out. There was never a supernatural element to the Scream films, all the baddies were people with murderous tendencies. So, knowing this, why was everyone so scared and acted so stupidly? Never mind running up stairs why didn’t someone try punching the fucker with the knife? Or better yet hitting them with a big stick? For the most part, everyone just runs around screaming and then dies. Probably as they were ready to do anything to get out of this crock of shit film.
Two Thumbs Firmly Down for Scream 3
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