Lucas
Versantvoort / 19 Nov 2015
More like the
Scouts Guide to Crappy Filmmaking. Look, nobody's going into this film with
high expectations, but is it too much ask for at least a handful of
well-deserved laughs? Scouts Guide could only have been made today. Zombies are
all the rage these days (for reasons I can't explain) and there's always room
for teen comedies with lots of gross-out humor and sex jokes. You'd think
combining both genres into one movie would make sense, but--despite the actors'
efforts--Scouts Guide just stumbles from one scene to the next, begging you to
care.
Do I even need
to explain the story? Three scouts and a stripper, I mean cocktail waitress,
join forces to survive the zombie apocalypse. One of them, Ben, is in love with
some girl named Kendall and I'm sure they will absolutely not end up together
in the end... Honestly, need I say more? Zombie apocalypse, lame jokes, running
zombies, running from zombies; the list goes on.
Also, is it too
much to ask for the film to stick to its own rules? I know what kind of film
we're dealing with here, but the lack of consistency is just annoying,
especially when the film tries to generate some actual tension in its action
scenes. One moment, the zombies unleash their inner Usain Bolt and in the next,
they're standing quietly behind someone, waiting to unleash a cheap jump-scare.
And how did this apocalypse even get started to begin with? There's something
cool about a zombie movie not wasting time with pointless techno-babble and
just trying to be funny, but there was an opportunity here for some
ridiculously funny explanation.
And that's
Scouts Guide in a nutshell: wasted potential. It's a parody that fails at being
a parody. There were countless opportunities for the film to really take apart
the zombie genre, to embrace it and mock it simultaneously, but it never rises
to the occasion.
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