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Every good franchise
has a trilogy: There’s the original Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, and Step Up (Ok, maybe not Step
Up)… and as of 2000, Scream was labeled under a trilogy. Does this franchise get better as the movies
progress, or should they have stopped at Scream 2?
Scream 3 is definitely a guilty pleasure, it in no way compares to the original… or even the second. Scream
3 almost seems like a text book slasher movie from the 80’s – (minus the gratuitous nudity) – it features
good carnage, a mindless script, and under-par acting. It is definitely a formula for a semi-fun/mindless
movie.
There’s not much to say about Scream 3, it’s pretty much another carbon copy of the first two with a different
killer (or killers?) revealed in the same technique near the end. This is without a doubt the cheesiest
of the three; cheesy dialogue, cheesy acting (mainly by Parker Posey), and a cheesy appearance by Jay and Silent Bob…
yes, that’s right… Scream 3 features a cameo by fictional characters seen in the Kevin Smith movies!
But even though it had more cheese than a grilled cheese sandwich, I still enjoy following the Scream franchise and
enjoy seeing Neve Campbell miraculously escaping the grasp of the killer.
On a positive note; the opening sequence finally features
a major cast member in the Scream trilogy – a step up from the previous two. And I honestly enjoyed
the killer(s) – their origin story that is revealed at the end of the movie actually makes sense and I highly enjoyed
how Scream 3 and the first Scream were connected. It definitely had a stronger plot than the second Scream.
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