Cooties is a great horror-comedy that will entertain you with its quick, comedic look at the familiar teacher-versus-students story but ZOMBIFIED – and who doesn’t like some zombies? Also, the title is perfection. It’s definitely got some quirky humor and those moments where all you can say is “seriously?”, so it’s funny but not laugh-till-you-cry funny. The middle lost me a little as they tried to throw some romance in there with Clint and Lucy, which was just expected and dull, then it redeems itself by ending on a strong note.
They smile, laugh, hold hands while skipping around, play on the cars – it’s downright disturbing. It’s the way the children act that make them creepy, though. How could anyone forget Hugo from that little show called LOST?! I know you didn’t.Īnywho, even the children are ridiculously mean saying words like “cunt” and “cock”, I know I would have gotten in some trouble for using those words! Then they literally become flesh-eating monsters hell-bent on terrorizing the faculty. The one that should have had way more screen time was Rick, the druggy who took mushrooms and can’t tell if he’s hallucinating or not and drives a van with a damn eagle on it, played by Jorge Garcia. There’s Clint, the cliché of a struggling writer Wade, who looks like he jumped out of the 70’s and Doug, the intelligent but awkward one (he reads “How To Have a Normal Conversation” in the break room), just to name a few. It’s disgusting but so perfect as an intro. The opening scene is a stomach-churning sequence ending with a student taking a bite out of chicken nugget leaking gray goop. Written by an odd pairing, Ian Brennan ( Glee) and Leigh Whannell ( Saw), this film is filled with awkward humor and WTF moments. Clint and a colorful group of faculty members must try to escape the school before they become the children’s next meal. Parents need to know that Cooties is a horror-comedy about kids who turn into zombies after eating tainted chicken nuggets. His day just keeps getting worse when the students start going mad and eating each other. Then he runs into Lucy (Alison Pill), a former crush and, unfortunately, the girlfriend of the school’s gym teacher Wade (Rainn Wilson), who’s an alpha male and has a 1970’s pornstache. Clint’s day isn’t starting off so great, he got boxed in his parking space, “eat a cock” was written on his car and the students are already heckling him. The movie opens up with Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood), a struggling writer, going to his first day on the job as a substitute teacher in his hometown.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Jorge GarciaĪ movie that represents what most people think children are: little monsters. So, though “Cooties” has a reasonable amount of laughs and frights, and though real teachers may find it an apt allegory for the zombielike charges in their classrooms, it’s not really funny enough to achieve grown-up cachet, and it’s too ugly and violent for younger viewers.Cooties Release Date: SeptemDirected by: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion The role-reversal possibilities inherent in children-prey-on-adults stories can’t really be exploited well when the kids are mere zombies, and in any case there is a lot of horror comedy around lately.
Jack McBrayer, Nasim Pedrad and Jorge Garcia are among the other familiar adult faces. But a handful survive and spend the movie alternately running from the little rotters and trying to kill them.Īll this mars the first day on the job for Clint, a dorky substitute teacher played by Elijah Wood - yes, Frodo from “The Lord of the Rings.” And it happens just when he was striking a spark with another teacher, Lucy (Alison Pill of “The Newsroom”), and wondering if he might possibly lure her away from her cloddish boyfriend and fellow teacher, Wade (Rainn Wilson). Tainted chicken nuggets served at an elementary school turn its students into zombies, and - as if the teacher shortage weren’t already bad enough - a number of educators are quickly eaten. Depends, really, on how you feel about a blood bath set in a school, a teacher beating a zombified student to death and name actors romping through the groves of gross-out humor. Is “ Cooties” funny enough or scary enough or both to override its distastefulness? Tough call.
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