Don't Believe the Hype

Disturbing yet enthralling

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

My experience with Tucker And Dale V.S. Evil began as a horror movie binge I began since the time around halloween. Each night, I would choose a random horror movie or horror series, and watch it that night. Initially, the movie seemed goofy, and lacked a sense of story. I caught on later that the director intentionally meant for the 'story' to be a mock film on every other scary movie in the industry. It started off with Tucker and Dale driving in the sticks (the woods) talking about their new vacation home, it moved on to a few college kids talking about their vacation, and one of them (Chad) talks about how bad "Hillbillies" were. The group of college students also plan to hang around the same area as Tucker and Dale for the weekend. Yet again their paths cross at the lake while Tucker and Dale were fishing the kids were cliff diving, they take the blonde haired woman to nurse her back to health, judgements follow, and the college students try to kill them, and manage to kill themselves in the process. Chad ends up dead in the old woodshop, as it turns out Chad's dad was a hillbilly. I enjoyed the fact that throughout the movie, the roles were switched. The hillbillies were actually the good guys, while normally, they would be labeled as murderers.

I don't normally get attached to characters, but I especially loved Dale and Allison! It's very rare for horror or even comedies to get me to care about their characters, but this movie was an exception! I see "predictable" in some of the other reviews, but this is not the case! I was expecting this to go the way of "Of Mice and Men". Spoilers for that book, Tucker and Dale are very similar to George and Lennie. Actually very similar! We were just missing the rabbits! Thus, I was predicting Tucker to have to kill Dale due to accidentally killing Allison. Honestly, there were a couple of parts of the movie, I was on the edge of my seat! "Is Allison okay!??" First in the cabin, one of the college kids was shooting their cabin with the sheriff's gun. I was expecting Allison to get hit by a stray bullet, and furthering the strife between Tucker, Dale, and the College Kids. But that would have been really tragic and broke the comedic tone. Then, at the end, I was expecting Allison to get hit with a bowling ball right after she took of the helmet Dale bought her. Like, all the college kids were cursed or something, ala Final Destination. So, yeah, this movie is far from predictable!

Fun take on the teen slasher movies. Several hilarious laugh out loud scenes. If you like Evil Dead movies you will like this.

An unfortunate series of accidents leads to a group of college kids (who have seen 'Deliverance' one too many times) assuming that a couple of friendly hillbillies are psychotic murderers in this hilarious horror film that wittily subverts the 'backwoods brutality' subgenre. The film even begins, as one would expect, with the college kids in focus, scared out of their wits as the two hillbillies stare at them as they briefly drive by. Soon afterwards though, we are treated to the hillbillies' perspective and they remain empathetic throughout, especially as dead bodies pile up around them, completely oblivious to the fact that the college students think that they are serial killers. The fun diminishes somewhat as the pair realise that the college kids have a vendetta against them, but even so, the film remains interesting to watch as the brats essentially create their own downfalls, with their paranoia and instinctive distrust leading to their demise. Occasionally the film falls into cliché, but there is something deliciously postmodern to the way the film daringly swims against genre expectations. The movie also manages to address some issues revolving around confidence and misunderstandings based on unfair assumptions and the title characters are fleshed out in incredible depth for such a short (under 90 minute) feature with both Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine great in the roles.