The '90s  comedy show, "IN LIVING COLOR" was arguably the worst "successful" series for its time, in spite of the fact that creator Keenan Ivory Wayans is quite talented.  Still, Wayan's theatrical films were basically "bad" spoof films with tired jokes.  "SCARY MOVIE" could easily have been just one more bad film to add to Wayans' repertoire, but it actually succeeds on various levels.
From the first gag sequence, itself, a spoof of the opening scene from
"SCREAM", we realize that Wayans is taking us on a bawdy tongue and cheek homage to the Scream films.  It's interesting to note that "SCARY MOVIE" was actually the original title to Kevin Williamson's original script for the first "SCREAM" film.  Cheri Oteri of "Saturday Night Live" is terrific in her impersonation of the Courtney Cox character from the "SCREAM" series.
She also has a wonderful part spoofing Heather O' Rourke's character in "The Blair Witch Project".  In fact, the whole cast is quite good.  This film's got its share of beauties too.  Shannon(American Pie)Elizabeth is featured, unfortunately without any nudity!  And, Carmen Electra opens the film as a sexy victim.  While most viewers won't probably care, we wish that for a film that really pushes the envelope close to getting an NC-17 rating in its attempts for laughs, it  wouldn't have held back in the titillating potential it had.  There's nothing erotic here, just lewd.  Would it have hurt the film's box office to provide a little "t&a" in an otherwise all out "crude" film. 

The film is presented in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio with 16:9
enhancement.  The image is a little soft in spots, but it has good color
values and consistent fleshtones.  There are no artifacts to be found, and
contrast is quite good. 

The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound offers some great moments, but they're few and far between.  This isn't a "big" sound mix in any sense, but the dialogue is always intelligible and the atmospheric environment is adequate.

There is a featurette offered as a supplement.  In this segment, the Wayans bros offer their commentary as to where their creative ideas behind the film came from, as well as some funny insight into the problems of working together.
A Deleted Scenes segment  gives further example as to why Wayans felt the need to cut scenes for other reasons than humor.  The deleted scenes offered clearly would have given the film the box office "curse" rating of NC-17, The scenes are dirty, but not funny!