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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil [Blu-ray] [2011]

5 star:		(75)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Tucker & Dale are two charming hillbillies, happy within themselves but shy out of their comfort zone.

Their lives are invaded by a group of preppy college students who, through a series of unfortunate events believe them to be hillbillies of the murdering kind. The film is a parody of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre genre, something it nods to on more than one occasion.

Tucker & Dale are very likeable characters and you will find yourself rooting for them. Dale in particular has a very sweet relationship with one girls and it's charming to watch. But the real point of this film is the comedy and it does this very well. There's a part of me that wants to point out that the misunderstandings that lead to the humour are quite slapstick and sometimes you can see them coming. But this isn't a criticism, there is no arguing with the fact that the film is laugh-out-loud funny for a good amount of time, it's just an observation.

Good comedies have been thin on the ground this year so this is a real gem. Watch it, you'll like it.

I can't believe that such an amazing film had so little publicity or distribution - I am so excited that it will finally be released!
As an avid horror fan, I had no expectations for Tucker and Dale. I basically watch anything and everything, and seeing as this was low-budget with very little publicity, I underestimated this. It has since become one of my favourite movies ever.
Alan Tudyk is fantastic as always, and I had never seen Tyler Labine before but he basically steals the show. While the films it's ripping are pretty foul, T+D still manages to have a lot of heart, and Labine's character is so adorable!
This does for The Hills Have Eyes what Shaun did for Dawn Of The Dead, while kicking Zombieland in the privates. Unmissable.

If you're a fan of the 'Scream' series of film then you'll probably love this too. Group of stereotypical preppy American teens get the idea that a couple of lovable hillbillies are homicidal maniacs and only manage to hurt themselves by attacking them which serves to compound their fears and make things even worse. As in the Scream films some of the deaths are a little gruesome but the humour lightens it all and ends up being a great black comedy. Well worth a watch.

So clever can not believe someone had not already made this film. Is so funny and fun. Great idea and great acting. Alan Tudyk is brilliant and got to love him being Wash from Firefly, but Tyler Labine (reaper, invasion) steals the show. This is a great film in the vein of scream or scary movie but so unique. Can not reccomend highly enough. So happy I have seen it. Get it when it comes out, a one of a kind film.

This is a great film, I have the German edition blu ray version which looks fantastic and which I watched in English. It's a wonderful film about 2 really sweet guys (and they really are beautiful human beings) who are mistaken for killer hillbillies. It gets pretty sticky pretty fast. It made me laugh till I cried. Tucker and Dale are played by a couple of actors who are fairly well known and have done a number of TV and film roles (Tyler Labine as Dale, Alan Tudyk as Tucker).

This is a great film which I loved. Even Dale's hat was hysterical - Giv'er - a play on Mcgiver and his own giving personality.

Even the dog was hysterical.

Think you've seen enough 'deranged redneck meet students' movies? Think again! Tucker & Dale vs. Evil turns the whole template on its head and it's the kids that are the problem. Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) are two quite innocent, well-meaning rednecks fixing up their dream cabin in the woods. However, when they rescue one of the female students from drowning, their call to the others of 'We've got your friend' is misinterpreted in the worse possible way and from then on things go to Hell in a handbasket. No good deed that Tucker and Dale try to do goes unpunished, leading to a truly demented finale. This is a classic 'splatstick' horror in the spirit of Peter Jackson's 'Braindead'. With plenty of deep-black comedy, gore and rug-pulls, this little gem deserves a much wider audience.

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is a breath of fresh air. Although gory in parts, not only is it immensely enjoyable to watch, this feel good film is actually really funny. They say no good deed goes unpunished and Tucker & Dale's efforts to do the right thing are punished brutally, with college kids dying grisly deaths all around them.

The acting's very good, the jokes and script are funny, the slapstick deaths hilariously horrid and, all in all, it's just a very enjoyable film to watch. With two such likeable characters you really feel for the unfortunate rednecks as a series of catastrophic events unfold all around them. And the sad thing is, all they wanted to do was help.

It's a little clunky in places and perhaps not directed or edited with much 'finesse', but don't let that put you off. With chainsaws, wood chippers, sawmills and home made booby-traps (a la Southern Comfort), every redneck way to kick the bucket is depicted here in this film... but the difference between this and Deliverance is no one was ever meant to die.

I love a good comedy horror. You could even say it's my favourite sub-genre. Movies like Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, Braindead, Scream... all loads of fun and are all must-see movies. Now we have another to add to the list... Tucker & Dale vs. Evil may just be my favourite comedy/horror since Shaun of the Dead, one of my favourite movies of all time.

The premise is simple, yet effective. Two hillbilly guys get caught up with a whole bunch of misunderstandings which lead them to be seen as psychopaths. Normally, I hate comedy that overuses the concept of misunderstood situations... I find it silly and often painful to watch, but it is so well done here that I was too busy laughing my butt off to be bothered by it.

The movie does a great job of turning the age-old "hillbillies slaughtering teenagers" theme of horror movies, and creates a movie that's original and hilarious.

If you're a fan of comedy, if you're a fan of horror, if you're a fan of Alan Tyduk, if you're a fan of Tyler Labine, or if you're a fan of movies in general: I can not recommend this movie enough. It's the most fun I've had watching a movie in a good while.

This movie is AWESOME!

It's a funny take on the 'hillbilly vs college kids in the middle of the woods massacre', but with a twist.

What unfolds here is simply a series of accidents and misunderstandings between the two groups. What if the hillbillys are actually nice guys, and what if the college kid is a bit of a psycho? There's gore and blood aplenty for all horror buffs, but enough laugh out loud moments to keep you watching right up until the credits roll. This is a film that I really didn't want to end.

I had never heard of it before I saw it on the shelf but thought I'd give it a go and boy am I glad I did! This is a real gem that's apt to be played over and over again. Give it a go and laugh yourself silly, I know I did!

Tucker & Dale vs Evil is directed by Eli Craig who also co-writes the screenplay with Morgan Jurgenson. It stars Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden and Jesse Moss. Music is by Michael Shields and Andrew Kaiser and cinematography by David Geddes. Plot has Tudyk and Labine as two harmless mountain/country men who head to their newly acquired vacation home in the woods to fix it up and get some R & R. But after a misunderstanding at a roadside store with some college kids, who think Tucker & Dale are hillbilly psychopaths, the wheels are set in motion for a bloody battle for survival....but who for?!

In 1996 Scream came slashing forward to inject witty life into a fading horror genre, with freshness and inventive splinters from the slasher formula, Wes Craven's movie rocked the horror faithful's world. Tucker & Dale vs Evil will not have the same impact, it's limited release and low budget worth ensured it never had a chance of being a big thing, but still it's the freshest horror/comedy to have come out since Scream made its bloody bow at the box office.

It's such a simple idea at the core, you have to wonder why it wasn't thought of before? Craig and Jurgenson have flipped the age old Hillbilly Killers vs Preppy College Kids idea on its head, and in the process smothered it gleefully with dark humour, laugh out loud moments and inventive deaths. There's also some social commentary nestled nicely in the narrative, big points about first impressions and ideas of stereotypes, and hell yes! There's even an opposites attract arc, though that admittedly helps to bog the picture down as the central joke premise runs out of steam towards the end. In fact were it not for a relatively sloppy finale, this would surely be falling into sub-genre classic status. Thankfully all that comes before it is so full of vim and vigour, blood and bluff and fun and frolics, it's not hard to forgive the debut director his one misstep.

The neat trick is having the film unfold from the Hillbillies viewpoint, where the carnage that unspools gets increasingly difficult for them to explain, this in spite of their innocence. Each death is logical to the college kids who go on the attack when one of their number, they think, is kidnapped. And it's logical to us the audience as well, were it not for us being privy to these wonderfully funny sequence of events, we too would have them hung, drawn and quartered after a guilty verdict was reached in 10 seconds. This is the ultimate horror/comedy flip-flop movie. So many funny sequences light up the picture, with a chainsaw scene one of the finest moments to have ever graced a horror comedy movie, but the dialogue, too, is not found wanting in the fun and charming department. Cast are on top form, with Tudyk & Labine a most agreeable double act, where their comedy timing is impeccable, and Bowden & Moss are more than just pretty faces.

Craig (Sally Field's son) has started with a bang, if he can top this then he is a name to really get excited about. If he can't top it? Well he will at least always have one of the best horror comedy movies on his CV. Yes it's that good, fans of Scream, Severance, Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland should seek it out post haste. 8.5/10