The Scary Movie franchise started out as a horror movie spoof series for the Wayans Bros.

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That film, which was partially brought about after the Wayans lost the Scary Movie series, is getting a sequel.

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Its grasp of time and place is, by their standard, weirdly unstable, and the supporting players, among them Marlon Wayans, J.

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The latest installment in the profitable series of horror-movie spoofs is also the first not written and directed by the fitfully brilliant, if uneven, Wayans brothers.

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If the creaky timing displayed in these scenes is her idea of comedy, she might need to rethink her vocation before she's having to deal with the Wayans Brothers.

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If you are twentysomething and have had a couple of beers, would you rather see a show produced by Rosie Perez with Keenan and Ivory Wayans and Jim Carrey, or Estefan?

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Since then, he said, the playing field has leveled: The Wayans brothers played "White Chicks" in the film of the same name, and Eddie Murphy has played several ethnicities in his films, including Jewish and Chinese characters.

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