Movie review
Scary 3 killing with yawns
by Rawly Bransom, Sports Editor

   Only on rare occasions does a movie come around that not only captivates the mind but lightens the soul with laughter. Not only is    Scary Movie 3 not that movie, but it comes closer to going the opposite direction.
   Anna Faris stars as Cindy Campbell, the star of all three Scary movies. Charlie Sheen, Leslie Neilson, Queen Latifah and many others star in this spoof of almost every movie possible.
   At least seven different movies are spoofed: both Matrix movies, The Ring, The Others, Signs, The Sixth Sense and 8 Mile. Those are just the ones that I caught; there might have been more.
   In the movie, a mysterious movie is killing people (yes, right out of The Ring).
   Cindy is raising a nephew who can see dead people and knows what others are thinking (Sixth Sense).
   At the same time, mysterious crop circles are appearing on an ex-priest’s farm (Signs). Charlie Sheen plays the ex-priest/farmer. His brother George (Simon Rex) is a wannabe rapper, who grew up on a farm and can’t get his big break because he is white (8 Mile).
   Many of the jokes are funny. The sight gags definitely work well to a point. The biggest problem for the movie is those very same sight gags.
  In a movie that has no determinable plot, the movie must be funny. I did laugh often during the movie; the problem was that the very same gags that made me laugh also dragged on too long. Most of the time what should have taken 30 seconds to a minute took maybe two or three minutes. That is much too long for quick sight gags to stay funny.
  Viewers also face several reoccurring jokes running throughout the whole movie. How many times can you run over one little boy, really?
  All in all, Scary Movie 3 does deliver some laughs. If you liked the other Scary movies, then you’ll really appreciate this one. In comparison, this one is a diamond in a pile of coal.
  If you have not seen the others or you did not like them, expect puns, cheap sight gags and fart jokes. If that sounds like fun, this is the movie for you.