A shabby attempt at mixing elements of a teen slasher flick with the lowbrow laughs of a teen sex romp. Neither one adds up to the sum of its whole.
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02/27/04
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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.
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.... [More]
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
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Reviews for Broken Lizard's Club Dread
Doesn't quite capture the devil-may-care feel of a sex comedy.
02/27/04
Top CriticWill appeal to everyone who enjoys the shenanigans of movies like Army of Darkness, Tommy Boy, or even the Scary Movie series.
02/27/04
This is the first movie in years to challenge Ed Wood's Plan Nine From Outer Space for the title 'worst movie ever.'
02/27/04
Most of the movie is just blood and bodies, some of the dead, some of them topless, and none of them interesting.
02/27/04
Top CriticUnencumbered by logic or narrative cohesion, the freewheeling lunacy of Club Dread sits squarely in the guilty pleasure zone.
02/27/04
There will be better movies playing in the same theater, even if it is a duplex, but on the other hand there is something to be said for goofiness without apology by broken lizards who just wanna have fun.
02/27/04
Top CriticPure dumb fun.
02/27/04
Top CriticThis hit-and-mostly-miss parody of slasher films is about 100 years overdue and has already been done to, well, death.
02/27/04
Club Dread actually offers more laughs and scares than you'd expect, but it strains so hard to sustain the mayhem that it tends to exhaust rather than entertain.
02/27/04
The whole thing plays like an extended sketch.
02/27/04
A splatter of scenes that relocate the funny-bone in the lower anatomical regions -- sometimes hitting the mark, occasionally a glancing blow, often missing completely.
02/27/04
If Project Greenlight ever awarded a movie-making contract to a group of drunken frat boys, it might look something like Broken Lizard's Club Dread.
02/27/04
This is very different from what the Broken Lizard comedy team has done before. Refreshingly, so.
02/27/04
A bumptious splatter farce that manages to improve from awful to moderately engaging as its cast is winnowed down to the five guys themselves.
02/27/04
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02/27/04
Disappointing, especially since I dig these guys and was hoping for so much more.
02/27/04
No. No. No.
02/27/04
[It] may be as deep as the resort's hot tub, but it's plenty of fun.
02/27/04
[Y]ou begin to suspect they may have all been under the influence of something or other while writing this.
02/27/04
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