Review of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) by Joanna B — 22 Feb 2016
Made in the same good-natured splatterfest style as Zombieland, Shaun of the dead and Cockneys vs Zombies, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is mind-numbingly stupid and unfathomably ridiculous yet still worryingly funny.
Serving as a tongue-in-cheek tribute and a cleverly aimed recruitment campaign for the so-called uncool and square practices of the scouting movement; I have to admit, if The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon goes AWOL, I wouldn't complain at having a few savvy scouts by my side.
On the eve of their last camp-out, lifelong friends and scouts; Ben, Cater and Augie (Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller and Joey Morgan) join forces with one badass cocktail waitress Denise (Sarah Dumont) to become the world's most unlikely team of heroes.
When their peaceful small town is ravaged as ground zero of a zombie invasion, they must fight for the badge of a lifetime, putting all their skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
From the worryingly deformed slow-moving zombies to the digitally assisted and inventively gross ways found to dispatch of them, this movie can only be described as is wall-to-wall fun for fart-joke loving teenage boys. Think Jackass meets Evil dead.
The Verdict: Neatly grounded in a relatable story of friendship, the usually gory aspects of human dismemberment become jump inducing comedy that leaves it disgusting mark.
Published: Canberra Weekly.
Date of Publication: 12/11/2015.
This review of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) was written by Joanna B on 22 Feb 2016.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse has generally received mixed reviews.
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