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Starring Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine
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If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough, and if you wanna be sat-e-rical you gotta have more than a thimbleful of synapses or you’re gonna be down there ruttin’ in the bargain bin with all them June-Klurd-Van-Daym movies. A big disc of neither,Tucker and Dale treads a watery line of indifference and incompetence whilst carrying its one joke, never sure whether it wants to be a hot new axe-em-up based on thirty year old tropes or a flea in the ointment, a piss-fuelled piss take chock with genre subversions and the excellent eyes of Alan Tudyk. There’s problems in them thar hills; Tudyk for one, the greatest impaled man in cinema history, given barely anything to do and forced to play second banjo to the fat beard from Reaper as he moons about the forest staring at the sexy assistant from 30 Rock while she desperately tries to climb her way out of the B-Movie ditch. Tudyk’s a great actor by anyone’s estimations, but here the script jumps on his chest and bludgeons him with its half-assed mediocrity, desperately trying to ape Shaun of the Dead’s respectful ribbing but never passionate enough about its subject matter to pull any limbs off.
There’s fun to be had with a wood chipper full of blood, and watching people get attacked by bees has been fun ever since Overmind Cage made it the internet’snational sport, but the good sprinkles are too few and far between, degenerating into an attempt by whatever hunks of wood wrote the script to make it into a genuine horror movie with a genuine bad guy. That said bad guy is played by the itchy-werewolf-rapist-boy from Ginger Snaps sporting a fright wig tells you all you need to know about the back-office bumbling going on behind the whole thing; in a film with a clumsy message about misunderstanding, there’s been a trailer full of communication errors at almost every step of the production process. Especially at the offices of Empire magazine. Four stars? What’s wrong with you Empire magazine? What’s wrong with you?
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