The zombie film showed various shades of these creatures in its Nazi version (Dead Snow, 2009), socialist (Juan of the Dead, 2011), romantic (My boyfriend is a zombie, 2013) and post-apocalyptic adaptation (Shaun of The Dead, 2004). Now it's time for the undead conducive claim the figure of the boy scout.
Writer-director Christopher Landon (paranormal activity: Marked, 2014) exploits the qualities "nones" Scouts and transforms them into comic-heroic virtues.
Everything from the experiences of three characters, a trio of scouts, who begin their evolution from the zombie epidemic that plagues their village.
The comedy is suggested at all times: from the visual, introducing three teenagers whose personalities no longer fit with shorts and scout badges; to the absurd, sudden and impulsive attitudes caused by hormonal changes that have as "icing on the cake" eschatological and naked situations. They are 93 minutes of unexpected surprises and laughter ... but isolated.
Although from the beginning it was conceived as a film that should not be taken seriously, this does not mean that weaknesses are ignored.
The elements that cause the comedy are vast and promising, but not detonate a huge explosion because they seem anchored to the strength and fail the harmonic fluidity of its direct reference, Zombieland (Ruben Fleishcer, 2009), and even his simile Supercool mockery teenager (Greg Mottola, 2007).
Ben (Tye Sheridan), Carter (Logan Miller) and Augie (Joey Morgan), are three young friends who have known since he was a child, they entered a scouting organization. Augie is proud and excited because their leader in the Scouts (David Koechner) assigned a special badge rewarding performance. Instead, Carter and Ben not much relish the idea of being scouts, as the festival of their own age hormones installed in his head other priorities. The night camping in a forest to receive your badge Augie Ben Carter and escape towards a party to be attended Kendall (Halston Sage), the beautiful older sister Carter, of which Ben is madly in love.
On reaching the village they find that a horde of zombies is sweeping the place. With the help of Denise (Sarah Dumont), a hardened waitress in a strip club, the young scouts, who were later joined Augie, they will have to draw on their skills to face the undead and learn a lesson about friendship and teamwork.
Given the abundance of films about zombies, one of the veins that cinema of recent years has explored in an attempt to reinvent the genre is the humorous treatment. In the wake of films like Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009), director Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) proposes a horror comedy whose characteristic lies in the kind of humor by betting, and in this case follows directly from the calls teen sex comedies, which is emblematic a title like American Pie.
That said, the threads of action that form the plot are as simplistic as the motivations of his characters: triumphantly consummate the premiere of his sexual life, a goal that is threatened by an army of undead. As can be expected from such a basic premise. The resources of the film to provoke laughter viewer are located in the antipodes of intelligent humor, and are based on the exploitation of scatological and sexual topics in its crudest expression. While there are some points for originality getting away from this premise, as the scene of cats in the zombie effect is explored in animals, or one in which Augie and Carter sing a song from Britney Spears to face one vivientes- these deaths, the constant that prevails throughout the film is the vulgarity seeking easy laugh appealing to the baser instincts of the viewer, an effort that tries to be redeemed, perhaps too late, with the sensible message about friendship and solidarity when the outcome.
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