Scary Movie 2

The central credo of this execrable sequel is that nothing in the world should escape the sharp spear of satire - all crimes, all races, all beliefs, all bodily functions and all films, should be good for a joke or 176, should the moment arise.

That's not a bad place to start - I can't help warming to a film that makes paedophilia gags in the first five minutes ("She won't even let me touch her!" cries the mother of a child possessed by the Devil. "Yes. You often have to give them sweets first," returns the priest. Chortle chortle).

However, the scatter-gun approach is fraught with difficulties, none of which is overcome. The parody is half-baked, many of the references are no more than random namechecks of forgettable and mostly forgotten films (such as What Lies Beneath - who on earth cares about a re-run of the red-dress scene?).