Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

Oh hidey ho, there, officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property   

   Have you ever seen a giant, horrifying spider, and some genius felt the need to impart the wise saying, "They're more afraid of you than you are of them?"  Well, that's what Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is all about.
   Nine college aged douche bags drive out to the middle of nowhere to smoke some weed and drink some beers.  After making uncomfortable, lingering eye contact with a couple of hicks on the highway, they stop at a general store in a backwoods, small town in the middle of nowhere.
   Meanwhile, Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) just bought themselves a vacation home in the middle of the woods near Morris Lake.  They stop at the local convenience store to pick up a few supplies to fix the place up.  A scythe, some beer, a wood chipper...  The college aged kids are immediately horrified and disgusted by the so-called hillbillies.  Maybe Dale shouldn't have approached them carrying a giant scythe, but sometimes meeting new people is awkward.
   When they finally arrive, Tucker and Dale are immediately enchanted with their new vacation home.  One of the beams is loose and potentially lethal, the previous owner liked to collect bones and newspaper clippings about murder, but they don't see the dust and grime, they see something they never thought they would be able to achieve.
   While fishing on the lake, Tucker and Dale see Allie (Katrina Bowden) slip and fall in.  Attempting to rescue her, they accidentally abduct her.  In their attempts to save her, the college kids just seem to keep stumbling into harm's way.  Tucker and Dale are super confused when the kids appear to have started killing themselves all around them.  A couple of them spear themselves on sharp branches.  Another throws himself into a wood chipper.  The sheriff accidentally nails himself in the face with, well, a board filled with nails. Then one of them shoots himself in the face.  There's all kinds of twist and turns, it's wacky.
   Chad, the ringleader of the college kids, kidnaps Tucker and ties him upside-down in a tree before chopping off a couple of his fingers.  Suddenly the roles are reversed and the innocent, "crazy hillbillies" are being hunted by the college kids.
   Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is really all about class warfare.  The rich college kids make a few too many assumptions about two guys who happen to live in a rural area, but in the end their ringleader proves himself to be the real menace.  Combining slapstick and gore, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a truly funny parody of the standard slasher-in-the-woods story.  A bit contrived at times, I'll give it four out of five bushwhacking scythes.