TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL

BY CHRISTOPHER HASKELL
DECEMBER 8, 2011

“There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.”

— Tucker, Alan Tudyk

“Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil” could have easily been another failed spoof movie. However, with the right combination of self-aware dialogue and the perfectly casted Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk, this film becomes a comedy-horror far superior to any other in its genre. The witty dialogue from the two leads meshed with the dumb-founded, knee-jerk commentary from the stranded and dim-witted college students create a dynamic unlike any “Scary Movie” disasters or “Piranha” bastardizations.

The biggest problem was that the marketing displayed just about every death, leaving nothing to be revealed during the movie. That significant flaw aside, “Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil” still entertains on a strictly surface level but does so in a way that rivals almost any spoof film I have seen in the past few years.