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Overall:
This movie takes the horror formula and provides an incredibly hilarious take on what’s actually going on. It’s still gory, but there’s something incredibly endearing about the aftermath of each death.
What it had going for it:
This movie managed to not take itself too seriously… and at the same time it didn’t devolve into blatant stupidity.
It took a relatively tired genre, and managed to integrate a humorous tone that made a rather over-done story line far from boring.
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Tucker and Dale themselves are well developed characters who make being a “hillbilly” not seem so bad. They’re still two best friends trying to have a weekend to themselves that goes terribly awry.
The problems:
Allison, the female lead is a college student getting her bachelor’s in psychology. And at a pivotal point in the story, she tries to use the knowledge she’s gained through her schooling to defuse the situation. It doesn’t work, and not necessarily because of her influence, but I think that anyone would agree, she’d better be in her first term… otherwise, she needs to pick a different major, or transfer to a different school, because she doesn’t know jack about counseling. Basically, what I’m getting at, is that this aspect of the character could have been better fleshed out.
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The other college kids aren’t fleshed out more than their archetypical skeletons.
The film starts out with the revelation of the “killer” through “found footage” (sort of) and then flashes back to “3 days earlier” and continues on until you meet up. I felt that this could easily have been left out and not been detrimental. As it was, I knew who the “killer was” immediately upon seeing him after that cut. Which may not be a big deal for other people, but it was a bit of a buzz kill for me.
Run Time: 89 minutes
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