Today we have a very special edition of Netflix'd. I'm visiting my friend Jon in Atlanta, and he and his roommate Chuck have agreed to choose a movie that they'd like to watch/make fun of. This is great, because I really didn't feel like spending $12 to see Ghost Rider in an Atlanta theater.
The movie they've chosen is Tucker and Dale vs.Evil. Unfortunately it's a fun movie, making it hard to make fun of. Fortunately, it's a fun movie, so I won't hate myself afterwards.
On to the review!
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a horror comedy film that was released in 2010 to the surprise of many and the acclaim of too few.
The movie follows two groups of people, college kids and hillbillies. It attempts to poke fun at 'crazed killer in the woods' trope by asking one major question: What if the killer didn't mean to do it? Tucker and Dale vs. Evil creates a horror film through misunderstandings. It's basically the Abbot and Costello of slasher films.
Tucker is played by Alan Tudyk of Firefly fame, while Dale is played by Tyler Labine. The movie splits time between these two as they travel to the middle of nowhere to fix up Tucker's new summer home and a group of spoiled rich college kids who hit up the same area for vacation.
Unfortunately for our innocent rednecks, one of the college kids, Chad (Jesse Moss) has a thing against hicks. He thinks all hillbillies are horrible inbred crazed murderers. In reality, it's only about 40/60.
The misunderstandings escalate when one of the college girls, Allison (Katrina Bowden) is about to go skinny dipping when she notices Tucker and Dale watching her from a fishing boat. Predictably she screams and falls into the water, hitting her head on a rock. Dale jumps in to save her and pulls her onto the fishing boat. Her friends notice and freak out, and when Dale yells "We got yer friend!" in an effort to let them know she's safely out of the water, they take it to mean that the 'hillbillies' have abducted her.
Hilarity ensues as the college kids try to free their friend and end up dying in ever-more-elaborate ways, all of them complete accidents.
The first accident involves a chainsaw, a bee's nest and a pointy stick. Other deaths may or may not happen because of shovels, a wood chipper, a weed whacker, rusty nails and/or fire.
The middle part of the film is all about how two groups can escalate into more and more violent situations due to misunderstandings. It also plays with the crazed hillbilly trope by slowly reversing the roles until the city kids look like the evil murderers and the hillbillies are the innocents.
There's no way to go into any more detail without ruining the plot twists and goofy surprises, but I hope it's enough to pique your interest.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a fun, entertaining comedy-horror flick that anyone can sit down and enjoy. There's nothing inherently frightening, so even people who don't like horror films will find fun in it, but it's got enough horror movie style and imaginative death scenes to make even the dumbest Saw fan smile.
Comments: (As always, the movie is in italics and we're in quotes.)
"Wanna hear a scary story?" "I once put on a shirt that didn't have a popped collar."
Guy gets a saw blade through the forehead. "That'll teach you to like country music!"
"Bacon!" (No reference needed, really.)
"Plenty of people made it past the third grade. They're all in Congress."
"So are you gonna help or are you just gonna stand there staring at me?" "Ummm....yes."
"Grave digging is hard."
"Never trust a guy with a popped collar." "Yeah, it's bad policy."
"How to make things worse. Written by Tucker and Dale."
"Where are my boobies?" "There are no boobies." "Awwwwww."
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of her nice ass."
"Just because I love to spray Axe over every inch of my body doesn't make me a douche."
"You're a great therapist! 100% success rate. No complaints!"
"Look! It's the Incredibly Asthmatic Hulk."
"Maybe we should head towards that only light source in the entire forest."
"....aaaaaand conveniently daylight."
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