Review – Scream 3

In the mandatory “rules of horror trilogies” speech, they left out a few rules. First, faithful audiences generally mercilessly punish second sequels that stray too far from the formula. The film-makers take no such risk here. Sadly, they also adhere to one of the less desirable restrictions: because you can safely assume the viewers already know the dramatis personae, you’re free to avoid any semblance of character development. This frees you up to devote all your time to dumb plot twists (if associating the word “plot” with an episodic mish-mash like this isn’t overstating the case) and random hack-and-slash. Fortunately, they at least managed to ignore the corollary that specifies that the third episode be shot in 3-D if possible. Cameos by Roger Corman, Carrie Fisher and Jay and Silent Bob are just about as amusing as the whole rest of the movie put together. See if desperate