Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: CR # 14

Well, I was hoping to review Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy, but since our "Art house" theater would rather show other independent movies, I had to rent a movie. Well I'm glad I did, because I saw another highly anticipated movie of mine. I first heard about this back in Spring of 2010. This movie has gone through distribution hell. It even was distributed in Germany where it beat The Chronicles of Narnia, and it had fewer screens to show it on, yet it still didn't get pickup! Well it finally has a DVD release and I'm happy for it. This is...

Let's Begin

PLOT

A couple of dumb college kids go up to the West Virginian woods for a week-end full of weed, beer, and skinny dipping, But, those are the villains of our story. After the kids stop at a gas station (cleverly titled " Last Chance") we start following the story of two lovable rednecks fixin up their summer home. Meet Tucker and Dale, two of the sweetest, nicest, most innocent rednecks in the United States. One night while fishing, Tucker   and Dale see one of the girls from earlier fall and bump her head into the lake. When they try to save her, the idiot kids think Tucker and Dale are a bunch of psycho killer rednecks and that they just kidnapped their friend! Now the kids try to save Alison (the stolen/saved girl) from those evil rednecks, and kill themselves in elaborate ways in the process, leaving Tucker and Dale scared and confused.

PROS

The reason this movie works are the lead actors. Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine play these characters great. You truly fall in love with these bumbling rednecks, especially Dale.   

The comedy is hilarious. It's a mix of parodying modern horror cliches, misunderstandings, and just plain craziness. I found myself laughing long and hard at a lot of scenes. The college kids are the funniest thing in my opinion. Just seeing how well each kid embodies a bad stereotype from bad scary movies and the crazy thoughts they come up with about what's going on is hilarious.

The movie has some cool gore moments, and they make some pretty good jokes with the gore as well. 

CONS

The last 3rd of the movie got a little too ridiculous in my opinion. I'm pretty sure that was the point, to make it extremely over the top and then some, but it didn't work for me.

CONCLUSION

I know this is a pretty short review but I really don't have that much to say, because I've already said everything I need to. I feel I've sold the movie as best I can. I love this movie. It has such a clever premise that I'm surprised no one has done this before. I highly recommend seeing this. It has comedy, action, gore, rednecks, and crazy college kids, what more can you ask for? I'm again surprised this was never sold to a mainstream audience, I know it could, and it should have. Oh well, hopefully my review can get some DVD sales.

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