New movies to watch this weekend.

Welcome to Trust Me, I Watch Everything, a weekly guide to all the new movies out each Friday and where to find them. This week's buzziest release is the return of the horror-movie-parody franchise Scary Movie, with original cast members like Anna Faris and Regina Hall reprising their roles. If that's not your thing, a mega-budget live-action (except for all that CGI) version of Masters of the Universe also debuts.

If you'd rather have a movie night at home, you can rent or buy a slew of new releases, including the recent must-see Elvis concert film and the Adam Scott-starring horror film Hokum.

And on streaming services you're likely already paying for, Office Romance, a charming and funny rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez and Ted Lasso's Brett Goldstein, hits Netflix, while the hit animated film Hoppers makes its way to Disney+.

Why you should skip it: Scary Movie, aka Scary Movie 6, is the first new entry in the parody franchise in 13 years, and the first Wayans brothers entry in 25. Unfortunately, their return to the smash-hit series is a reminder that maybe some things are better left in the past and that references in and of themselves are not jokes.

Since horror has only become more dominant in pop culture since 2013, there's a lot of new material to spoof. At first, it seems like this installment will map very cleanly onto Scream 5 and Scream 6, scene for scene, in the same way the original film took on Scream and Scream 2. Unfortunately, those very recent movies don't have a single sequence that rivals the now-iconic openings of the first two.

A bigger problem? There's no plot here. It's just scenes spoofing random movies crudely strewn together. Rather than crafting a coherent narrative that cleverly mashes up popular genre films, Scary Movie is content to just make fun of one movie, and then the next scene is making fun of a different movie. The sequences are more often than not entirely disconnected from one another and play more like an extremely unfunny sketch-comedy show.

It's a bizarre, low-rent affair that feels more like the Friedberg-Seltzer "from two of the six writers of Scary Movie" knock-offs like Date Movie and Meet the Spartans than the real thing. It's all references existing without jokes and a lot of meta winks about the fact that the characters are in a movie that you're watching. It also can't help but insert random pop-culture moments that have absolutely nothing to do with horror movies, like a parody Michael trailer about the pop star's brother Jermaine, or a dire anime sequence riffing on a hit song from KPop Demon Hunters.

Scary Movie 6 is also an earnest legacy sequel, no matter how much they want to pretend to be making fun of the nostalgia they're banking on to make this movie a hit, which it will be. And I haven't even mentioned how downright lazy it is, repeating the same tired jokes over and over and over again despite never being that funny the first time. The movie repeatedly takes on culture-war topics like transgenderism, pronouns and the general idea of "woke" running amok, but they didn't write jokes for any of it and instead just mention the buzzwords in an attempt to be edgy. The actor who plays Cindy's daughter does an amazing Anna Faris impression — but for what?!

Barring a Final Destination sight gag up top that made me laugh, and a third-act Scream-style reveal that works (but would've worked better had the movie not already made that joke earlier), Scary Movie is an embarrassing cash-grab nostalgia play that feels like every single element onscreen is the first draft.