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Editorial Review by Amazon.com
This third installment of the hugely popular Scream trilogy doesn't
have the moxie and smarts of its two predecessors, but it's still a
great thrill ride. Scripted by Ehren Kruger (from an outline by
Scream writer Kevin Williamson), Scream 3 takes the three surviving
characters from the first two films--beleagured heroine Sidney (Neve
Campbell), ruthless TV journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox
Arquette), and hapless deputy Dewey (David Arquette)--and
transplants them to the environs of Hollywood. Turns out a
familiarly masked killer is stalking the cast of Stab 3, the third
installment of the movies within the Scream movies. (Following all
this? Don't worry, it's not entirely vital to the plot.) It's
supposed to be a fun house of mirrors, with each character
encountering the actor playing themselves and visiting reconstructed
sets of the murder scenes, but it doesn't have the same snap and
crackle of the first two films. Rather than parodying the teen
horror genre, Scream 3 seems to be playing by the rules instead of
breaking them gleefully, and its postmodern plotting is a little too
fast and loose. Williamson's presence is sorely missed--it's the
difference between hitting one out of the park and scoring a solid
triple. Director Wes Craven, though, still brings his die-hard
energy to the proceedings, from the requisite heart-pumping prologue
to the go-for-broke (but somewhat predictable) ending. Kudos to
Campbell, Cox, and especially Arquette for bringing spirit to
characters who should be justifiably tired of being corpse magnets;
Campbell is remarkably graceful considering she's saddled with plot
twists involving heretofore undisclosed family baggage. And in the
film's one inspired stroke of brilliance, Cox's Gale is trailed by a
hilarious Parker Posey as the actress playing Gale in Stab 3, who
astutely realizes that if they're caught by the killer together,
it'll be the real Gale who gets it. If Scream 3 had stuck to such
ingenious parody throughout, it would have been a real winner; as it
is, it's an energetic shadow of itself. With Scream alums Liev
Schreiber and Jamie Kennedy in brief but winning cameos. --Mark
Englehart
Nice quality 2 CD rip by Wer-Al Zwowe
Dutch subs are also posted.
Posted: 02.07.2002 12:39:15 by Naj Treb
Language: English
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