On the contrary of what the majority of people are saying, this isn't the most violent, or intelligent, or metacritic installment of the series, nor does make Ghostface the most challenging of them all. Instead, it's pretty much the same of the previous ones. And writers use the 'requel' argument to justify the lack of originality that's so obvious during entire movie.
Not a reboot and not a sequel, a movie to embrace a new generation of fans while its familiar characters and twists are there only to please the older ones. That's just a retell of what Craven and Williamson did with the "cliches are the new cliches" plot in 4th movie.
The problem is that 4th movie failed to hit at the box office, that's why no one seems to remember that one or just ignore the fact that Scream 4 was much more violent and gore, made not only to redeem the series from the awful 3rd movie, but also to make any further sequel be able to restart the series from a new point without losing its trademarks.
James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick may be one of the hardest fans of Craven's movies, but that doesn't mean that the results here makes it one of the best of the series.
The opening sequence, which has always been franchise strongest trademark, is too simple and predictable. A let down when compared to other ones. It cannot even being called a homage, since 4th movie has alredy done that in a brilliant and nostalgic way.
New characters are interesting, but their development never achieves the same consistent sense of fraternal comunity that previous movies show. Of course that writers are probably just paving the way to further sequels, but even though Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega offer great performances none of them seems to fulfill the expectations to replace Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox great partnership or Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers's importance.
Vanderbuilt and Busick play safe entire movie, revisiting ideas, events and dialogs all the time. Yes, on its very core, Scream is not a reboot and not a sequel, but a remake of the original. Thankfully they do not mess with the original but also they don't bring anything new either. Even self criticisms being there all the time like "the killer is never unmasked", they still cannot avoid redoing what the series already did over and over. So what's the point? The same way, what was the point to bring some characters back if their importance to the story is resumed to a few decisions that any other character could make? In fact, their presence is only a cosmetic to the "requel" argument, having no significant impact at all to the final part, which is frustrating.
And it's time to let go the idea that everything runs in the family. First was Billy's mother, then Sidney's half brother, Sidney's cousin and now Billy's daughter? What's going to be next? Stu's grampa? What about ordinary people? What about exploring the dark web idea? What about hints that there are a lot of Ghostfaces spread all around than just makes us believe that a teenage could have the strength to rip a strong man of double her size?
Scream franchise never was to be taken seriouly, and it's very known for the worst decisions made by the characters, but it's time to take it to another level from now on, because that seemed to be the intention of directors-writers, but they did not accomplished that as promoted and expected.
Not a reboot and not a sequel, a movie to embrace a new generation of fans while its familiar characters and twists are there only to please the older ones. That's just a retell of what Craven and Williamson did with the "cliches are the new cliches" plot in 4th movie.
The problem is that 4th movie failed to hit at the box office, that's why no one seems to remember that one or just ignore the fact that Scream 4 was much more violent and gore, made not only to redeem the series from the awful 3rd movie, but also to make any further sequel be able to restart the series from a new point without losing its trademarks.
James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick may be one of the hardest fans of Craven's movies, but that doesn't mean that the results here makes it one of the best of the series.
The opening sequence, which has always been franchise strongest trademark, is too simple and predictable. A let down when compared to other ones. It cannot even being called a homage, since 4th movie has alredy done that in a brilliant and nostalgic way.
New characters are interesting, but their development never achieves the same consistent sense of fraternal comunity that previous movies show. Of course that writers are probably just paving the way to further sequels, but even though Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega offer great performances none of them seems to fulfill the expectations to replace Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox great partnership or Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers's importance.
Vanderbuilt and Busick play safe entire movie, revisiting ideas, events and dialogs all the time. Yes, on its very core, Scream is not a reboot and not a sequel, but a remake of the original. Thankfully they do not mess with the original but also they don't bring anything new either. Even self criticisms being there all the time like "the killer is never unmasked", they still cannot avoid redoing what the series already did over and over. So what's the point? The same way, what was the point to bring some characters back if their importance to the story is resumed to a few decisions that any other character could make? In fact, their presence is only a cosmetic to the "requel" argument, having no significant impact at all to the final part, which is frustrating.
And it's time to let go the idea that everything runs in the family. First was Billy's mother, then Sidney's half brother, Sidney's cousin and now Billy's daughter? What's going to be next? Stu's grampa? What about ordinary people? What about exploring the dark web idea? What about hints that there are a lot of Ghostfaces spread all around than just makes us believe that a teenage could have the strength to rip a strong man of double her size?
Scream franchise never was to be taken seriouly, and it's very known for the worst decisions made by the characters, but it's time to take it to another level from now on, because that seemed to be the intention of directors-writers, but they did not accomplished that as promoted and expected.