IQR- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

IQR- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

(In case you start wondering about the numbers inside of the parenthesis randomly, they are a running count of clichés I used in this review, enjoy)

good thing I'm not numbering puns too!

Actual Rating: 3.5 The acting was surprisingly good given the fact that there are no big name stars. The guy playing Dale (Tyler Labine) is probably someone you recognize only as a character actor and Katrina Bowden is know for being that girl in 30 Rock… no not Liz Lemon. The video quality wasn’t the best but the plot certainly made up for that. It was like watching two movies at the same time, a romantic comedy and a slasher/horror film. Pitch perfect (1) script throughout the whole thing.

Enjoyment Rating: 4 I found myself very entertained and it wasn’t from crude sex or fart jokes… or worse, crude sex-fart jokes (I’m looking at you Scary Movie franchise). There was an element of Three Stooges style slapstick that made the whole film come off as funny while not sacrificing the horror aspects of the slasher genre.

Kate’s Cryometer: 5 tears Kate refused to watch this and thus cried sloppy wet tears (totally different than sloppy wet kisses for all those worship leaders out there). She said she didn’t like movies that made death funny. “Death is never funny”, shrug, it’s pretty funny to me.

Blasphemy Explosions (now officially measured in explosions thanks to Die Hard): 

one still seems like a lot doesn't it...

1 explosion. The message of the film is so sickly sweet that it seems straight out of a Feature Films for Family movie (Kate LOVES those). Don’t judge others by their cover, if you take off the “by their cover” part then it’s straight out of the Bible, so really this should get 0 explosions, but of course there is that gratuitous violence, so one explosion. A blood and guts explosion. There might have been cursing but I can’t remember.

Overall: 4 stars.

Who would have thought (2) that such a disposable instant queue movie would have been so good? I certainly didn’t. When I went into this I really thought that it was going to be overloaded with clichés and stupid jokes, but just as the film teaches, we are not to judge a book by it’s cover (3), or a hillbilly by his inability to talk to women.

you judge him by his mullet and awkward body hair.

Don’t get me wrong, this film is loaded with flaws but they are so easily dismissed because of how well the filmmakers capture a spirit of the film. Never once did I stop and say “there’s no way this would ever happen” instead the whole time I was thinking “oh man, I can’t believe this happening!” All the while laughing my butt off (4)… literally (5). I had butt surgery after this film. (It’s jokes like that that weren’t in this movie)

Really what makes this film a 4 star film is the fact that it overcame it’s low-budget straight to Instant Queue origins and made something for itself. It’s the film equivalent of that older brother that your parents always compare you to… I’ll move out of the basement when I’m darn ready mom!

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anyway.

Other than the gore this move really was firing on all cylinders (6). It a piece de resistance (7) of B-films. It really takes the cake (8). This is a horror film/romantic comedy after my own heart (9).  And

Ummm…

All’s well that ends well…? (10!)

Take that (11) episode of Gilmore Girls where Paris and her boyfriend (Doyle, thanks Kate) only talk in clichés!