Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

ivo-cobra8 Scream 3 is so underrated and bashed from fan boys. I love this film to death I enjoy this film I have watch it with my dad. It is an underrated gem my personal favorite sequel in the "Scream" franchise series. It is an improvement over the second one. Sidney Prescott is a such a bad-ass, you have for the first time in the movie an explosion you see a house been blowed up. The plot and the story is set the first time in Hollywood. I love that it is an original story, it does not copy the second or the first film, it doesn't mess with the first two movies. It does finish the trilogy and brings an ending conclusion to the franchise. I enjoy this film, I love this film to death. Wes Craven did a great direction debut. Ehren Kruger replaced Kevin Williamson thank god and he did much better job to make an original story and make an conclusion to end the trilogy. I love with what happened next with the characters: Sidney now is a crisis counselor, I liked that. Ghostface returns he has unfinished business with Sidney and he wants her back. Dewey Riley is now working as an film adviser In Hollywood. I love his character, this time around David Arquette was better actor in this movie. I love that they did something new with his character, he wasn't annoying, he wasn't useless, he was good. He shot with a hand gun and killed the killer on the end, a real hero in this movie. Patrick Dempsey as detective Mark Kincaid was great he was likable and I have enjoyed him. I love his character. I love Jenny McCarthy as Sarah Darling she was believable. The movie was not dull, lame, or repainting the same story again, it had less humor, more horror, mystery and action it was mixed it had that what the second movie didn't had. The story is set three years after Scream 2 Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who has gone into self-imposed isolation following the events of the previous two films is drawn to Hollywood yet again she returns again to face the past and find out who is responsible for her mother's death. The new Ghostface begins killing the cast of the film within a film Stab 3 and has a score to stale with Sidney Prescott. Dewey Riley and Gale Waethers are trying to find out who is responsible for the killings. Gale has an unlikely sidekick Parker Posey as Jennifer Jolie. Courtney Cox is excellent as always as Gale Weathers. 10/10 I personally enjoy this sequel it is my favorite sequel in the franchise. Lance Henriksen is in this movie too and he is believable. I love the setting, the story and I love Sidney she is a bad-ass and I love happy ending, I love the trilogy to death and I love this movie to death sue me!

hellholehorror A slick slasher concluding the trilogy aptly. It contains all the self- referential irony from the first two films and goes further with it to the point of mild annoyance. The death scenes are all through stabbing which is just a little tired by now. It barely deviates from the path set by the first two films. Enjoyable but now slightly fluffier than it should be.

skybrick736 The low point of Wes Craven's Scream franchise has got to fall onto Scream 3. Although Craven sticks to a story-line that is very much connected to the first two films, it is well from polished. The Hollywood angle and certain character developments, mostly Dewey, were a little cornball. Perhaps the most laughable, eye-rolling spectacle was a cameo scene by, minor spoiler… Jay and Silent Bob. That was definitely a what the hell is that for moment. However, Scream never does turn away from a bit of comedy and Scream 3 did provide some funny lines and creative twists. Along with the story-line, the newly introduced supporting cast was perhaps the worst aspect of the film. Besides the main four returning cast members (Campbell, Cox, Arquette and Schreiber), there wasn't one actor or actress who stepped up to the plate to bring out a good role. The ending isn't totally predictable but it isn't as sly as the first two. Scream 3 is still enjoyable but is a weaker film, one of Craven's overall bottom films.

MaximumMadness To call "Scream 3" a bit of a mess would be an understatement. A big, bad... frankly pretty severe understatement. It's messy. It's tonally confused. It's far too silly to take seriously in the the moments where it's supposed to be serious. It's sometimes too serious to be silly in the moments where it's supposed to be silly. And all too often it falls prey to the exact same tropes and clichés that the two excellent previous films had gone out of their way to cleverly subvert and satirize. In essence, "Scream 3" is the sort-of film that "Scream" and "Scream 2" poked fun at.Yet, I can't hate it. I won't. Because for all it's bizarre miss- steps and eye-rolling moments, it does fundamentally round out the story the behind the series in a very cool way, and it even develops the characters and plot line through a few... well, very fascinating (if not slightly convoluted) twists and turns. And at the end of the day, it's a fun, breezy watch thanks to these new directions and the wonderful chemistry of the returning cast.Just don't go in expecting another wonderful round of nuanced and clever meta-humor mixed with visceral thrills thanks to a great script. Because sadly, this is the one entry in the series not written by series creator Kevin Williamson, and it shows.When a string of mysterious murders begin to bump-off cast members and others associated with the production of the third "Stab" film (which were loosely based on the events of the original "Scream" movie), original survivors Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers are forced to travel to Hollywood and try to solve the mystery of what is going on. And when it becomes all-too-clear that this new string of events is part of a plan for the killer to get their hands on Sidney, revelations about her own past will come to light... revelations that could not only change her life, but lead to its end.To get it out of the way, for the most part the cast is at the top of their game. Neve Campbell is the beating heart of this film (even if her screen time is slightly limited in comparison to the first two), and I think it could be argued that the one thing the film does 100% perfectly is its handling of the Sidney character and how the film puts her through some excellent development. David Arquette is as fun, silly and likable as ever. And new cast members like Patrick Dempsey and Parker Posey are a lot of fun.The only sore thumb really is Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers, who falls a little flat. And believe me, it's not Cox's fault. The fact is, her character is very mishandled in the story, and she comes off as far too... whiny and bratty for her own good, constantly needing to be "saved" by other characters. It just didn't quite work in this film. Though as I said, it's not the fault of Cox.It's the fault of the messy, hit-or-miss script.Story goes that series creator Kevin Williamson wasn't able to commit to this film due to scheduling conflicts, and he was replaced by writer Ehren Kruger. Kruger, while doing some good work on his own, just wasn't a good fit for the material. He didn't quite seem to be able to properly balance the satirical, humorous elements with the serious and horrifying. Though he tried his hardest undoubtedly, the result is a bizarre mish-mash of concepts and ideas that are generally far too broad and disconnected to really "gel" together into a cohesive experience. And as a result, he has to go back to the old some tropes. Cliché after cliché to try and fit the story together and deliver the jokes and scares. In essence, relying on the very same things that the last two movies joked about. So, it's just... awkward and messy when it tries to strike that fine balance needed for this sort of film.Thankfully, his effort at least paid off for the Sidney character, and for the interesting story beats the film takes in its second half. It's just a shame you have to slog through so much awkwardly- placed and out-of-left-field attempts at emulating Williamson's expect meta- humor and clichéd cat-and-mouse killer scenes to get to these interesting beats.Thankfully, director Wes Craven is still at the top of his game, and he's able to elevate the weaker script and play up the facets of it that do work thanks to his wonderful and sometimes poetic visual storytelling.As it stands, "Scream 3" is a mess. But an occasionally satisfying mess due to the things it does well. It suffers some weak writing and for inadvertently falling back onto the same clichés that previous films joked around with, but has just enough "oomph" in its second half to be worth seeing once for series fans.It's a middle-of-the-road 5 out of 10 for me. Not so much a "Scream" as an exasperated gasp.