Cannes Film Festival 2013

Watch Marlon Wayans slam 'Scary Movie 5': 'It's like an episode of 'Celebrity Rehab''

'A Haunted House' star also runs down his naked butt's big-screen resume


Needless to say, there's no love lost between Marlon Wayans and the long-running "Scary Movie" franchise of which he was formerly a part.

"That movie looks so bad," said the writer/comedian, speaking in reference to the upcoming fifth installment of the lucrative horror-movie spoof series (Wayans co-wrote and starred in the first two films). "I can look at it and just go, 'mmm mmm mmm.' You got Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Heather Locklear...it's like an episode of 'Celebrity Rehab.' It's just...it's doing it wrong."

To make it clear, Wayans' prolonged rant about the star-driven sequel during my recent sit-down with him wasn't exactly unprompted - though it also frankly didn't take much to get him going.

"Congrats on beating 'Scary Movie 5' to theaters by about three months," I said at the very beginning of my chat with he and Essence Atkins, his co-star in this month's "rival" spoof film "A Haunted House."

Little did I realize the glorious torrent o' diss my statement would unleash.

"I know what I'm doing," he continued. "I've been doing this since I was five. You know, I've writen five funny comedies like this. There's a way to do it, and you can try to emulate what we do, but...celebrities aren't funny. Comedians are funny. Great actresses can be funny. Any time you populate your movie with just messes, it's just like, 'ok, if you wanna put Lindsay [Lohan] in a car and put a paparazzi there...ok, then you may get a laugh here or there. But Lindsay's not like, yo, she's...a hilarious comedian. No, there's an art to comedy."

To check out the rest of my very interesting chat with Wayans and Atkins - including a rundown by the former of his naked butt's extensive filmography - check out the full video above.

"A Haunted House" hits theaters this Friday.

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    Monty Jack

    Like the first four were any good?

    January 9, 2013 at 10:56PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Neotrinitylmu

    Homophobia is not funny Marlon. White face is not funny either.

    January 10, 2013 at 1:57AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Allison Fleming

    "No, there's an art to comedy." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    January 10, 2013 at 8:03PM EST Reply to Comment
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      Convoy Of course there is. It isn't easy to make people laugh.

      January 11, 2013 at 12:04PM EST
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    Awdahelwidit

    They criticize others for "falling off" so to speak, but they want to be just like the guy they are hating on.

    Unfortunately their film "A Haunted Hose" was only a half-assed attempt itself. I watched it expecting "Scary Movie" or "Dont be..." quality (which it lacked) and was highly disappointed.

    Of course he's not worried about the guys who already have plenty of parody residuals. What they should be worried about is Craig Moss who (thus far) has submitted the best take on this (pathetically lame) niche of horror flicks that Hollywood appears intent on parodizing the living s*** out of....hopefully it's so the world will suffer no further serious attempts at amateur films such as the PA franchise.

    March 23, 2013 at 9:43PM EST Reply to Comment

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