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Scary Movie 5
Movie

Scary Movie 5

2013 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.

Overall Series Review

Scary Movie 5 is a 2013 slapstick horror parody focused on mocking films like Paranormal Activity and Mama. The plot centers on a happily married couple, Dan and Jody, who adopt their deceased relative's children and attempt to protect their suburban home from a supernatural curse. The film's humor is juvenile and relies heavily on low-brow gags, sexual innuendo, and crude slapstick. The comedy includes the use of politically incorrect ethnic and racial stereotypes for cheap laughs, which a contemporary review noted reduced race and gender to their most basic and crude stereotypes. The narrative does not engage in social justice lecturing or progressive political themes; instead, it is driven by an anti-woke sensibility that mocks genre tropes and relies on broad, traditional comedic offense.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The movie is a parody that employs crude, old-school ethnic and racial stereotypes for jokes, such as depicting the Hispanic housemaid as a vacuum-hugging immigrant and African American characters as strippers or thieves. The narrative does not focus on intersectional hierarchy, privilege, or the vilification of whiteness, which are the hallmarks of a high 'woke' score. The comedy relies on stereotyping as a gag, which is antithetical to the specific, lecturing nature of modern Identity Politics.

Oikophobia1/10

The core plot centers on a happily married couple fighting to save their children and their suburban middle-class home from a supernatural evil force. The narrative is about defending the family institution, directly opposing the notion of civilizational self-hatred or deconstruction of heritage.

Feminism3/10

The movie portrays a happily married couple working together to protect their newly formed family, centering the plot on protective motherhood versus destructive motherhood, and the domestic unit. The female lead is depicted as both a mother figure and an individual pursuing her personal goal in ballet. While the male lead is often subjected to crude slapstick and physical injury for comedic effect, the narrative does not present an explicit 'Girl Boss' or anti-natalist political message.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative utilizes the traditional male-female pairing and nuclear family structure as the standard, focusing on a married man and woman adopting children. The film is primarily concerned with crude parody and pop culture references, featuring no content that promotes or lectures on gender ideology, alternative sexualities as a central theme, or the deconstruction of the nuclear family.

Anti-Theism2/10

The film features a clear supernatural evil force, Mama, that the characters fight. While religion and spiritual figures, such as a Christian group and Catholic maid rituals, are used for crude slapstick and comic relief, the humor is aimed at genre tropes and character incompetence rather than framing traditional religion as the root of societal evil or pushing moral relativism.