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Movies that feel likeScary Movie 3 (2003)

News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.

If you loved Scary Movie 3, the closest films we have are Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), Legally Blonde (2001) and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016). All three share Scary Movie 3's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Young Frankenstein (1974).

🍅 35% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Zuckerwittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Scary Movie (2000) · Scary Movie 2 (2001) · Scary Movie 4 (2006) · Scary Movie 5 (2013)

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Starz

One thread runs through both: tv news anchor

The difference: Reviewed even better

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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Legally Blonde
2001 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 75%★ 6.5comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
2016 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 64%★ 5.7comedyNetflixStarz

Witty comedy in both cases

A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%★ 6.6comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The owner of an IT firm wants to sell his business for profit; however, when he started his firm, he invented a nonexistent president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with 'The Boss' face to face, the owner hires a failed actor to play the part.

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Zoolander
2001 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 64%★ 6.5comedyParamount+

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.

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Young Frankenstein
1974 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 95%★ 8comedy

The same two preoccupations: halloween, and parody

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1993 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 42%★ 6.7comedy

Both are built on the same subject: spoof

Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.

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EuroTrip
2004 · dir. Jeff Schaffer
★ 6.6comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 5.7comedy

Comedy approached the same way

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
★ 5.9comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
★ 5.9comedy

The same comedy instincts

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Horrible Bosses 2
2014 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 35%★ 6.3comedyParamount+

Both are comedy through and through

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

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