J.C. Howard

This is decidedly a dumb movie, but you already knew that.

So what I'll say is this.

If you're looking for likable characters, some smart and often biting satire, tasteful jokes, a tight plot...

You're at the wrong movie.

Oh, my God.

I mean... Yeah.

Yeah, this is not what you're getting.

That is not what this movie is, even in the least bit.

This was written largely by the Wayans brothers.

So the bottom line is, like Rihanna, if you...

Like the things that they do, you will like this.

If you don't, then you won't.

And for me, I will be honest, it had some nostalgia appeal.

I was in middle school or high school, somewhere in between there, when the first two scary movies came out, which were the ones that had the Wayans brothers involved with them.

And at that time, the humor was expressly for me.

A middle school, high school boy, the sex jokes, the weed jokes, the stereotypes, the latent homophobia.

They all spoke to this middle schooler in me.

There is a chance to really reinvent and to do something new that reminds us of the original, but brings a certain growth and maturity.

And they successfully avoided that growth at all costs.

The humor is there.