2. Scary Movie 5
The franchise that nobody wanted once more reared its ugly head, promising to take a stab at the horror genre, as well, for some reason, as comedy success Ted. Audiences were less than thrilled.
Why So Ridiculous? The very fact that this franchise still exists is beyond belief. It disappeared for so long, after the disastrously bad fourth outing that we could have been forgiven for thinking someone had staked it, but no, Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan clearly needed a cheque badly enough, and the monster was reborn. The problem with Scary Movie 5, like A Haunted House, is that the quality of the subject of the spoofing has dropped dramatically. The original Scary Movies were pretty funny because the slasher movie was enjoying a rebirth on the back of Scream's success, and the appearance of a million copycats, but with mainstream horror now circling the drain, Scary Movie 5 really had nothing to work with. Which is probably why the writing is so amateur, and the laughs so few and far between. At the end of the day, Scary Movie 5 is so ridiculous, because it has managed to redefine the relationship between the subject and the parody, effortlessly breaking down those definitions until it actually starts to ridicule itself and its predecessors, and thus transcending the need for any original subject to mock. That's either remarkably clever, or, as I suspect, incredibly stupid.