Senseless

Director: Penelope Spheeris Penelope Spheeris

Overview

Hard-working Scott Thorpe feels that he is a failure in work, in frats, and in hockey. To try to earn extra cash, he volunteers to try an experimental drug. Eventually the drug heightens all of his senses, giving him almost super-human power. But an overdose literally leaves Scott senseless

Product Details

Release Date:	07/27/2021
UPC:	0191329202852
Original Release:	1998
Rating:	R
Source:	Miramax
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	729

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Marlon Wayans	Darryl Witherspoon
David Spade	Scott Thorpe
Matthew Lillard	Tim LaFlour
Brad Dourif	Dr. Wheedon
Tamara Taylor	Janice
Rip Torn	Randall Tyson
Richard McGonagle	Robert Bellweather
Esther Scott	Denise Witherspoon
Ken Lerner	Dean Barlow
Kenya Moore	Lorraine
Ernie Lively	Coach Brandau
Debra Jo Rupp	Fertility Clinic Attendant
Vicellous Shannon	Carter
Michael Weatherred	Kern
Mark Christopher Lawrence	Wig Shop Owner
John Ingle	Economics Professor
Jenette Goldstein	Nurse Alvarez
Constance Zimmer	Zestfully Clean Woman
Patrick O'Neill	Waiter No. 1
Ross Rayburn	Waiter No. 2
Jeanne Diehl	Banquet Guest
Jennie Vaughn	Pastry Chef
Cee-Cee Harshaw	Tonya
Michael Dean Ester	Chet
Greg Grunberg	Steve
Mike Butters	Hockey Referee
Orlando Brown	Brandon Witherspoon
Angelique Parry	April Witherspoon
Tino Williams	Darius Witherspoon
Brenden Richard Jefferson	Lyndell Witherspoon
Greg Wilson	Monte Card Shark
Jeff Garlin	Arlo Vickers
Patrick Ewing	Himself
Michelle Brookhurst	Drug Intervention Student
Alexander Enberg	Drug Intervention Student
Manu Intiraymi	Drug Intervention Student
Kevin Cooney	Mr. Thorpe
Ivar Brogger	Economics Coach
Cyia Batten	Punk Waitress
Jack Shearer	Federal Reserve Vice-Chair
Joe Basile	Security Guard
Darrel M. Heath	Shady Guy
Thom Gossom Jr.	Clothing Salesman
Sierra Pasteur	Smythe/Bates Receptionist
Len Costenza	Board Member
Jeremy Paul Meldrum	Smythe/Bates Finalist
Kevin Downes	Smythe/Bates Finalist
Branden R. Morgan	Smythe/Bates Finalist
Sherman Hemsley	Smythe/Bates Doorman
Penelope Spheeris	Actor

Technical Credits

Greg Erb

Penelope Spheeris	Director
Don Carmody	Executive Producer,Producer
Shane Dixon	Stunts
Eric L. Gold	Executive Producer,Producer
Cary Granat	Executive Producer,Producer
David Hoberman	Producer
Brian Jennings	Special Effects
Junie Lowry Johnson	Casting
F. Lee Stone	Special Effects
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Greg Erb	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

The third in the Scary Movie franchise, this film is little more than a mediocre episode of Saturday Night Live. Indeed, the focus on certain "scary" movies -- like 8 Mile and The Matrix -- are noticeably lackluster when compared to the mini-parodies SNL alumni Mike Myers and Will Ferrell produced for the annual MTV Movie Awards with much greater success. That said, despite the abundance of awkward pop-culture references (it's doubtful that this movie's target audience will catch Leslie Nielsen's small homage to 1980's Airplane!), done-to-death jokes, and lack of any true laugh-out-loud moments, Scary Movie 3 does deliver a joyful, equal-opportunity disrespect for all things politically correct, as well as several well-aimed jabs at modern news media outlets. Clad in cartoonish Catholic school regalia, professional bombshells Pam Anderson and Jenny McCarthy offer a surprisingly self-aware send-up of The Ring's ill-fated video watchers, thus setting the premise for the rest of the movie: the hapless broadcast news journalist Cindy Campbell's (Scary Movie veteran Anna Faris) effort to bring a recent onslaught of crop circles to the forefront of her sex-obsessed station, all the while protecting her friends and family from watching the killer tape. As fate would have it, the crop circles only become the top story when her ratings-hungry television network airs 24-hour footage of the video, in doing so causing an alien race to die off in droves after viewing it via radio waves in space. Certainly, the story is absurd enough to make a funny movie, but the overly heavy reliance on slapstick and bland performances all around keep Scary Movie 3 from reaching its potential. Charlie Sheen's character doesn't so much resemble Mel Gibson's role in Signs as it proves virtually indiscernible from his performance as the angst-ridden Topper Harley in Hot Shots! In the same vein, Simon Rex's boring take on Eminem's rise to stardom is given an inexplicable amount of screen time while Leslie Nielsen, Regina Hall, Eddie Griffin, and Queen Latifah are grossly underutilized. In short, Scary Movie 3 isn't as good as the original, nor is it as bad as Scary Movie 2 or Not Another Teen Movie, a notable companion in over-the-top genre spoofs gone wrong -- perhaps Scary Movie 4 will get it right.