Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 93
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 14
Like the best horror/comedies, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil mines its central crazy joke for some incredible scares, laughs, and -- believe it or not -- heart.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 3
Like the best horror/comedies, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil mines its central crazy joke for some incredible scares, laughs, and -- believe it or not -- heart.
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Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count. Tucker & Dale vs Evil has
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Cast
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Tyler Labine
Dale -
Alan Tudyk
Tucker -
Katrina Bowden
Allison -
Jesse Moss
Chad -
Philip Granger
Sheriff -
Brandon Jay McLaren
Jason -
Christie Laing
Naomi -
Chelan Simmons
Chloe -
Travis Nelson
Chuck -
Alexander Arsenault
Todd -
Adam Beauchesne
Mitch -
Joseph Sutherland
Mike -
Mitchell Verigin
College Kid #1 -
Angela DeCorte
College Kid #2 -
Karen Reigh
Cheryl -
Carl Tye Evans
Dad -
Dave Brown
Clerk -
Hillbilly Bill Baska
BJ Bald, BJ Bald Hillbi... -
Mark Allard
Killer Hillbilly #1 -
Shaun Tisdale
Killer Hillbilly #2 -
Myles Pollard
Hillbilly Kid -
Eli Craig
Cameraman -
Sasha Craig
News Reporter -
Weezer
Jangers the Dog
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All Critics (93) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (14) | DVD (2)
Here's something you don't see every day: a genial, politically correct splatter comedy.
Top CriticStudents of the Little Movie Glossary may find it funny how carefully "Tucker and Dale" works its way through upended cliches.
At its heart, it's really just a one-idea premise stretched out to feature length, but the lovable duo of Tudyk and Labine and an endearing layer of sweetness under all the blood make it a fully enjoyable comedy of (t)errors.
It's time we all toss our nine bucks into the proverbial woodchipper (don't ask me what proverb) and spit out enough money to make Tucker & Dale and other truly deserving, truly funny indie flicks a blazing success.
There's even a message under all the body parts: People are individuals, not just easy regional stereotypes.
Essentially a student film offering nothing but absurdly contrived coincidence.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil is deliciously fun satire -- and, once all the blood has been spilt, offers an interesting riff on the line between hero and horror villain.
There is nothing very deep about this movie, but it is surprisingly funny for a slasher film.
... a far-fetched but bloody fun film that doesn't talk down to its target audience so much as it celebrates fans of the genre.
I doubt that anyone who isn't well familiar with slasher movie tropes will completely understand all the jokes... but they should at least get a couple laughs out of it.
By the time the action-packed, thoroughly tedious climax rolls around, Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil has established itself as a missed opportunity of disappointingly epic proportions...
Silly one-joke spoof horror/comedy about rednecks and college students together in the woods.
This goofy, over-the-top tale of college students on a camping trip warring with two local West Virginia hillbillies lacks a core identity.
Oh, dear. Oh, my. Oh, goody. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, a clever, witty, surprising splatter comedy to rank with Evil Dead II and Shaun of the Dead...
Beginning psychologists take note - hillbillies and college kids may kill each other, but the greatest assets in maintaining the peace, on both sides, are hot coeds.
Film fans who believe there's no way they could ever cheer for rednecks (a lifetime of Deliverance and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will do that to a person) will sheepishly smirk as they find themselves rooting for the rubes holding center stage here.
Genuinely brilliant.
Clever horror/comedy hybrid of the kind that Sam Raimi used to make and that so many have tried to produce in recent years but have fallen remarkably flat. There's nothing flat about this clever genre flick. For the right audience, it's pretty great.
Just about as rip-roarin' a horror comedy as we've seen in a while.
The final acts of Tucker and Dale vs Evil find the movie falling into the trap of using the same conventions ... it so jovially and brutally skewers prior.
The timing is impeccable, the gags are wonderfully tasteless.
One of the more enjoyable horror-comedies to come along since the original Scream.
a mordant comedy of errors that juggles the clichés of its genre with a buoyant impudence. And blood. A whole lot of blood.
Audience Reviews for Tucker & Dale vs Evil
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- Dale: They cut off his bowling fingers...
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- Tucker: I think he's gonna walk it off.
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- Dale: If you kill my dog I'm gonna.. I'm gonna be really mad!
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- Tucker: We've had a doooosey ofa day!
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- Tucker: [to Dale] When you see a college girl prancing around half naked, you do not call out my name!
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- Tucker: [his face frozen in pain from countless bee stings, calling out] College kids!
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