The film starts of with a lot of meta-scenes about the Scream genre, using a fabricated slasher movie franchise "Stab" and its multitude of sequels to comment on cinematically going back to the well far too many times. Then it settles into the main story of having Scream survivor Sydney Prescott returning to her hometown for a book signing, and the Ghostface killings start all over again, along with the creepy phone calls and attacks on the victims.
I was actually pretty surprised by all the actresses in the opening meta-scenes. The onscreen pairing on Courtney Cox and David Arquette was a little on the awkward side. Neve Campbell reprises her role as Sydney. Alison Brie's PR agent character cracked me up for her desire to use the return of Ghostface to garner more book sales for Sydney. The script litters the film with red herring characters who could possibly be Ghostface.
The final act was actually pretty silly and nutty, and they could have even strung it out by a few more minutes to wring even more menace out of the scenes.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of B-.
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