The Wayans brothers have created a family franchise that's riding shotgun on the power of the "Scream" franchise. It’s now a top-heavy satirical party.
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Quantrell Colbert Every once in a while in “Scary Movie” (which really should have been called “Scary Movie 6,” but never mind), there’s a gag that connects. Like the one where Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans) gets up in front of a church congregation to declare that he’s not gay, and then proceeds to rattle off an insanely detailed laundry list of all the gay activities he isn’t going to be doing. Or the one where Jack (Cameron Robert Stock), the love-interest-who’s-so-square-he-must-be-the-killer (he keeps getting compared to Ted Bundy), shows up at a party with his girlfriend, the high-strung Sara (Olivia Rose Keegan), and her sister, the Wednesday-like Tuesday (Savannah Lee Nassif), and the three try to get themselves invited in — as Remmick the vampire did in “Sinners” — by, in this case, playing a traditional banjo version of “Movin’ On Up” from “The Jeffersons.” Or the one where Sydney Park plays a high-school student who’s so scoldingly politically sensitive that when she’s being stabbed by Ghostface on the subway, an alarmed passenger refers to the victim as “she,” which makes Park cry out that they/them are her correct pronouns — at which point the alarmed passenger is annoyed enough to begin stabbing her as well.
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