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Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:29
Rotten:67
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Comedy is too hit-or-miss is this slasher spoof.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence/gore, sexual content, language and drug use
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 27, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $4,559,739
Synopsis: From the guys who brought you SUPER TROOPERS...Broken Lizard is back, surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), a rock star has-been.... From the guys who brought you SUPER TROOPERS...Broken Lizard is back, surrounded by limber, wanton women on a booze-soaked island resort owned by Coconut Pete (Bill Paxton), a rock star has-been. But the non-stop party takes a turn for the weird when dead bodies start turning up faster than you could drink a rum punch. Everyone begins to look suspicious. Could it be Sam (Erik Stolhanske) of the Fun Police brigade, who is quick on the trigger with his tequila loaded super-soaker; Jenny (Brittany Daniel), the over-sexed, fitness instructor; Juan (Steve Lemme), the flamboyant diving instructor with a secret third-world past; Putman (Jay Chandrasekhar), the bratty-British tennis coach/fanatic; Dave (Paul Soter), the ecstasy-crazed, adopted nephew of Coconut Pete; or the burly masseuse (Kevin Heffernan) blessed with a creepy ‘touch’ that can render anyone into instant Jell-O? Can the inhabitants of Pleasure Island unite, solve the mystery and restore happy hour to this tropical bacchanal? BROKEN LIZARD’S CLUB DREAD was written by Broken Lizard and directed by the group’s Jay Chandrasekhar, who also directed SUPER TROOPERS, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Their first film PUDDLE CRUISER, also directed by Chandrasekhar, was screened at several film festivals including Sundance, IFFM, SXSW, the London and Berlin International Film Festivals, and was named winner of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Grand Prize for Best Film. Broken Lizard has collectively written and performed together for the past 10 years, creating stage, film and television material. BROKEN LIZARD’S CLUB DREAD also features Brittany Daniel ("Sweet Valley High," JOE DIRT), M.C. Gainey (HAPPY TEXAS, THE NEW GUY), Jordan Ladd (NEVER BEEN KISSED), Tanja Reichert ("Relic Hunter"), Samm Levine ("Freaks and Geeks") and Lindsey Price ("Beverly Hills 90210"). Paxton most recently made his feature film directorial debut with FRALITY, in which he starred with Matthew McConaughey. He has appeared in some of the U.S.’ biggest box office hits including TITANIC, TWISTER and APOLLO 13. Paxton has also won critical acclaim with independent films like ONE FALSE MOVE, TRAVELLER and A SIMPLE PLAN. -- © Fox Searchlight [More]
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Kevin Heffernan, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, Jordan Ladd, Lindsay Price
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Screenwriter: Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan
Producer: Richard Perello
Composer: Nathan Barr
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Reviews for Broken Lizard's Club Dread
If you're in the mood for a romp, you'll have just as much fun watching it.
[W]hat’s refreshing about the Broken Lizard films is how removed they seem from the cookie-cutter Hollywood machine.
One of the better horror parodies, which if you ask me has been done to death.
Less funny than a comedy and less scary than a horror, but the comedy works (when it tries to).
An intriguing amalgam of straight-up genre movie silliness and a lampoon of said silliness, with no real way to tell which mode the film is in at any given time.
The jokes don't always work, and some of the scares are weak. But Club Dread is a comedy that tries to be scary, and much of the time succeeds at both.
. . . the laughs in Club Dread remain their own reward even after the chop-chop ghastliness has gone beyond the pale.
Looks like 'The Real Cancun 2: The Machete', an often effective slasher comedy by the 'Super Troopers' guys.
This is very different from what the Broken Lizard comedy team has done before. Refreshingly, so.
If you hate Jimmy Buffett, you'll love Bill Paxton's Coconut Pete. If you like naked girls who happen to be gymnasts, you'll love Jordan Ladd. This is a FUN flick!
Broken Lizard may not yet be Monty Python, but Club Dread is funnier than Super Troopers, and another comedy from the troupe will be a welcome sight.
Is it a comedy? Or are they really trying to make a go at a horror film? Funny enough, it actually works as both.
Here's an oddball movie that's better suited to rental than the big screen.
Unencumbered by logic or narrative cohesion, the freewheeling lunacy of Club Dread sits squarely in the guilty pleasure zone.
There's the inevitable hit-and-miss aspect that goes with the territory, but there's also sufficient character-driven kookiness to propel it all agreeably along.
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