Video Shelf
* New This Week: Keenen Ivory Wayans’ “Scary Movie 2,” a broad burlesque of haunted house movies, is extremely heavy on gross-out humor involving sex and violence and lots shorter in inspiration than the first “Scary Movie” was. It opens with a fairly funny sendup of “The Exorcist” featuring James Woods that sets the tone for the film with bathroom humor that in its exuberant vulgarity may well be unprecedented in a mainstream movie.
Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
3. Planet of the Apes (2001)
4. America’s Sweethearts
5. John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars
Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Planet of the Apes (2001)
3. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
4. Swordfish
Rental video charts provided by VSDAVidTrac, sales charts by VideoScan Inc.
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