Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

7/10

snootyushers28 October 2015

Simply put, this is a future cult film for a new generation. The zombie sub-genre is one that is so incredibly saturated that it can be hard to find a decent new film as we have to wade through tons of sewage to find anything with some value. Thankfully, after a fair bit of digging, we have one with Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. It's a film that will appeal to the new generations of horror fans who were born into this nutty zombie infested pop culture, and it should also resonate with the well travelled horror fans who grew up on a diet of Evil Dead and Re-Animator. It's not going to be a mainstream success, and it's not going to appeal to everybody but Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a blast of fun from start to finish.

It's clear from the opening scene of the film that aims to be a bucket of bloody fun. As a foolish janitor messes around with some laboratory equipment and comes across a strange looking comatose patient, he accidentally causes the them to flat-line and awkwardly tries provide CPR. His efforts are clearly in vain as he pushes his hands through the patients chest and wakes up the living dead, thus causing the zombie outbreak.

The comedy in the film ranges from hilarious mutilation of corpses, wacky animal zombies to plain stupidity, but it is none the less entertaining every step of the way. Highlights include a scene involving a trampoline, which had my body cringing in disgust and almost laughing hysterically at the same time, and a surreal rendition of a classic Britney Spears song. The climax owes a lot to the gaming franchise Dead Rising as the boys use the scout skills to craft hand- built weapons from a hardware store for maximum zombie killing impact.

Despite the zombies being a primary part of the proceedings, it would have been a shell of a film had it not had the central friendship between the characters of Ben, Carter, and Augie. We can all relate to a group of friends on an adventure, and their dynamic has shades of 80s classics like The Goonies and Stand By Me. It isn't drawing on anything new but it doesn't pretend to either as it feels like a hokey sentimental tribute to cult favourites such as The Monster Squad. The 80s are very much beating in the lively heart of this horror.

I'm a horror fan through and through, and the genre needs feel good films like this, equal parts gore and laughs with a splat of gratuitous nudity for good measure. At the end of the day isn't that what fun horrors are all about?

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6/10

I Could Be Drunk or Something

billygoat107113 December 2015

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse lacks any sort of novelty and it doesn't quite flourish its ultimate conceit. But isn't this the most enjoyable zombie movie I've seen in a while? There hasn't been much zombie movie in a while that's as brutal and deliciously violent as this one. And zombie cats! Why not? Maybe it's just my hangover from last Halloween. Either way, it's somewhat like a relic from the 80's, specifically from its tropes to its aesthetics (albeit some lens flares and digital blood.) It won't change your life or anything, but if you seek for some dumb adventurous schlock (with some teen comedy vulgarity,) then this movie knows how to deliver that kind of pleasure.

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7/10

If you like movies like Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and Cooties you will love this one as well. A movie you can easily watch over and over

cosmo_tiger6 January 2016

"Yep, zombie." Ben (Sheridan) and Carter (Miller) are about to graduate high school and are ready to leave the scouts. When they decide to skip their final camp out and go to a senior party instead they think they are in for the night of their lives. What they find when they head back to town is something neither of them could have imagined. It is now up to them to save the town from zombies. This movie is just a ridiculous and fun as it sounds. The movie is mindless but entertaining. That is what makes this one so fun to watch. Gory, comedy, a pretty funny idea and great timing make this one of the better horror comedies to come out in a while. There really isn't a whole lot to say about this movie other than if you are renting this for your teenager I would preview it first. Overall, if you like movies like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Cooties you will love this one as well. A movie you can easily watch over and over. I give this a B+.

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7/10

Silly nightmare made out of boys' dreams

quincytheodore27 December 2015

Zombie gimmick has become so redundant in recent time, even the mockery of it created another actual subgenre as it has spawned many clones this year alone. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is as juvenile as it sounds, some of the jokes are either downright bizarre or blatantly aggressive. Still, its simple theme and full commitment to awkward crudity are surprisingly effective on creating a few laughs.

Story is incredibly straightforward, it's basically written in the title. Three scouts find themselves in a zombie outbreak, and with the help of a hot chick they form some silly version of A-Team. Characters are not original. Maybe the main lead is pretty likable, but most of the characters are absolutely simple minded and comical or stereotypically comical. Its use of friendship tone is decent, it may be the only working drama angle here.

The entire movie is satire made out of cliché and some freaky stuffs way outside the box. Don't bother with logic or continuity, since they are admittedly flawed, at some points the plot seems shaky at best. As for the jokes, they are simply brash. This is definitely a visual clobbering as well as a jab at genre's silliness. Those wanting maturity or deep psychological study will find themselves lost.

It's similar to humor from gag website or forum comment threads, coupled with mandatory bloody gore and obtuse use of breasts and buttocks for viewer's pleasure. Normally this kind of overwhelming sensory overload can be appalling, yet the movie is unapologetically bizarre that the comedy works more than it falters.

This is a juvenile showing in purest form, using primitive jokes, nudity and even random singing. It should not be this entertaining, yet surprisingly it is.

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6/10

Poorly marketed film that has its moments

jtindahouse19 January 2016

'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' is a fun little movie that has sadly been marketed rather poorly and was probably doomed to fail from the get go. It's been a box office flop but it isn't a fault in the quality of the film. It's a case of the main characters being scouts (most movies about scouts would generally be aimed at a younger audience) and yet the movie being R rated and alienating the people the title would suggest are going to enjoy it.

If they were going to go with the R rating then they needed to take full advantage of it, which they do in certain scenes but certainly not in an overall sense. This had the potential to be a 'Superbad' type movie with lots of clever and yet vulgar dialogue that would keep the audience (an adult audience) entertained throughout. Yet throughout the dialogue constantly feels like it's making its jokes for a younger demographic. The only time they really make use of the R rating is in the violence and the odd bit of graphic nudity. The dialogue was the key let down in this sense and the only way they could have pulled off the R rating to make this a box office success, and even then it would have been far from a sure thing.

Box office failure aside though it's actually a rather enjoyable film for the most part. While most of the humour might be a little bit tame in nature, it is still often funny enough to keep you chuckling if you buy into it. It never really works as a genuine horror movie (I don't think it was ever meant to either) as there never really feels like a genuine threat to any of the characters. Plus I think most people accept slow moving zombies are rarely scary to anyone in this day and age. There's nothing "must see" about it but if you do find yourself in a position to watch it I think you'll be pleased enough with what you see.

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6/10

Confidently treading a well trod path

thekarmicnomad28 January 2016

This is a typical boy's comedy-horror romp. Expect nob gags, cheesy sound tracks, high-fives, innuendos and tall women in tight tops.

I have seen a few of these in my time so I am a little fatigued and jaded with the genre. But as they go this is a pretty good one.

There is a period of build up where the characters are given a bit of depth. The production, acting and effects are all pretty good. The plot is OK but pretty much irrelevant.

There is no real horror, no real nudity (except a few jiggling zombie boobs), and no real violence. This is all pretty tame, good natured fun.

It makes me very sad to admit perhaps I have just grown out of this type of thing (I am outside the target demographic for sure)

This could be a pretty solid watch for a younger audience who is new to the genre.

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6/10

Silly and Funny Combination of Comedy and Horror

claudio_carvalho24 January 2016

A reckless janitor accidentally releases a zombie from a laboratory of research. Meanwhile, the teenagers scouts Ben Goudy (Tye Sheridan) and Carter Grant (Logan Miller) decide to camp for the last time since they are too old to be scouts. The problem is that they do not want to harm the feelings of their friend Augie Foster (Joey Morgan) and the Scout Leader Rogers (David Koechner). They have a flat tire after hitting a deer on the road and Carter's sister Kendall Grant (Halston Sage), her boyfriend and her friend Chloe (Niki Koss) stop their Jeep to see whether they need a ride. They invite Ben and Carter to go to a party in the night. The two scouts leave the camping during the night to go to the party. When they drive through the town, they do not see a living soul and they decide to visit a night-club since the bouncer is not at the door. They discover that people have turned into zombies and they team-up with Ben's recent acquaintance Denise Russo (Sarah Dumont), who is bartender in the nightclub, and Augie that was left alone at the camp and came to the town. Soon they discover that the non-infected inhabitants have been evacuated and the town will be bombed by the government. They decide to rescue Kendall but they find that the address her boyfriend gave to them is wrong. What can they do to save Kendall?

"Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is a silly and funny combination of comedy and horror that entertains and make laugh. There are scenes of the annoying Carter that should have been deleted during the edition, but the film in general works. The scene with Ben hanging on the window is hilarious preparing to jump on the trampoline. If the viewer is not an intellectual, he or she will certainly laugh a lot with the stupidities and adventures of this scout group. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Como Sobreviver a Um Ataque Zumbi" ("How to Survive to a Zombie Attack")

Note: On 17 March 2017, I saw this film again.

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10/10

How could this have such bad ratings?

darian-caplinger4 June 2019

Does no one understand satire? When the movie started, I thought it was going to be a cheap B-rated movie, but TBH, I think they did a really good job of balancing gross, with humor, with double humor, with nudity, and of course... with zombies.

There are a lot of double entendres in the film, so you have to be listening or watching very closely for them, because you are already laughing at some of it when an even funnier joke is told.

I loved it. It reminded me of Leslie Nielson movie.

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7/10

It's a lot of fun!

moviewizguy29 October 2015

If there's one horror movie you need to see in theaters this Halloween weekend, make it Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Sure, the film won't win any awards for a great screenplay or nuanced performances, but sometimes you need to watch a movie that you can just sit down and enjoy. In that regard, Scouts delivers. It's totally over-the-top and ridiculously entertaining and the closest version of an American Shaun of the Dead there will ever be. I mean, if the zombie cats in the trailer didn't pull you in, then you're probably not the intended audience for this film. While there are some adolescent gags that don't quite work, most of the jokes are quite funny, some even inspired. There are things in this film that you've never seen in a zombie flick before, and considering the lack of originality in recent zombie fare in film and TV, that's quite an accomplishment. There's also an endearing quality to this film through the three boy scouts relationship that ground the film emotionally. Underneath all the gore and gross out gags, Scouts is a coming-of-age comedy with heart, and while it might not work for everyone, this viewer had a blast.

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4/10

Juvenile about sums this one up.

TheBarleyGuy15 December 2015

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Do you guys remember Superbad? That movie came out at just the right time in my life, it was raunchy, and the characters in it were relatable to me as a high school student. Of course, now I'm an adult, and find the humour in that movie to be pretty antiquated and it has lost all of it's relatability in the years since it came out. This movie feels like a rehashing of the same jokes from that movie, with the new addition of zombies and violence. If it had come out while I was a teenager, it might have even found it funny. However, now I'm an adult, and this movie is rated R, and therefore is intended to be watched by adults, so lets talk about it like adults.

First off, the movie opens with Blake Anderson, from everyone's favourite show Workaholics. I admittedly have no interest in that show, and haven't been able to find any of the cast members terribly funny at any point. This was no exception, he buffoons his way into starting the zombie apocalypse, and clowns around like a jackass for his whole time on screen (which isn't long thankfully). The cast doesn't get too much better from here on out, the main trio is played by Tye Sheridan (Joe), Logan Miller (+1), and newcomer Joey Morgan. The three of them exchange gross, misogynistic banter for the entire flick, and have none of the charms that Cera and Hill have in Superbad. The movie also stars David Koechner (Anchorman), Sarah Dumont (Don Jon), Holston Sage (Goosebumps), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Grown Ups 2, and yes that Schwarzenegger), and inexplicably Cloris Leachman is in this movie too.

Scouts Guide is written and directed by Christoper Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and it's pretty bizarre all around. The whole movie feels juvenile, and like it was written by an adolescent boy. The jokes and actions throughout the movie range from being just unfunny, to being gross and jarring. A prime example being when one of the characters (Miller) sees a zombie with exposed breasts, and proceeds to feel her up before running away in terror. It seems like sexual assault is cool as long as it's against zombies? I guess? Miller's character also spews some pretty disgusting lines including, and I quote: "Junior year is when all girls become sluts" and suggests that Leachman's character "Rubs fancy feast on her cooch and lets" you get the point. The lines are gross, and patently unfunny, which makes it all the harder to watch.

On top of the bad lines, you have weak jokes peppered everywhere in the movie. A strip club called Lawrence of Alabia (haha..haha.haha..HAH!), the heavier of the friends takes a farty dump because hilarious, and on and on and on just like that. This childish humour really rubs me the wrong way, and just reinforces that this is an acceptable way for characters to talk because "they're young people" or whatever, and that's bullshit. It also seems to have a certain level of the "Hello fellow kids" mentality, being written by a grown man, insinuating this is how funny, quick witted kids talk. With the bad jokes, and the dumb banter, you're instead stuck with a bunch of idiots acting like idiots and it's just hard to watch.

I had hoped to find a zombie flick that was over the top, and fun to watch. Maybe something along the lines of Dead Snow 2, or hell even Warm Bodies would have been preferred to what I got from this. I realize the gag is that they're scouts, so they would be prepared for anything, but by the end of the movie they become a three-man army of ass kicking and basically turn into impossible action heroes, instead of just being resourceful. Again, yeah, I get it. It's a zombie- comedy and blah blah blah blah. It just falls so flat from start to finish, and it's a real shame. Hell, even the zombie cat gag was tedious and a wasted joke, just as wasted was the gag where our hero (Sheridan) grabs onto an elderly zombie's penis and it stretches until it breaks. It's gross out gags like this that really add to how juvenile and lazy this movie is.

In the end, you're left with a hugely immature movie, with a couple of fun, gory zombie effects. It's the victim of lousy writing, lousy directing, lousy acting, and a movie that feels like a teenage boy's version of Superbad set in the Walking Dead universe. It was hard to watch, and wasn't at all worth the time. A hard pass on this one. Hopfully 2016 has more horror worth being excited about.

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8/10

Scouting for an audience

Braindead0912 November 2015

Horror films in recent years tend to be in the found footage vein, and Zombie films have been in decline since filmmakers could knock them out on low budgets with large amounts of CGI hordes of the undead for the straight to disc market.

Scouts Guide is a modestly budgeted comedy horror with lashings of gore with plenty of raucous laugh aloud.

The film does open up with a truly cringe worthy two minutes of inept nonsense with a janitor doing his job, but quickly changes its pace with the introduction of D.O.D. Christopher Landon (son of Highway to Heaven actor/director Michael London) has the guts to run with the laughs and some decent splatter for the next 90s minutes.

The cast of unknowns are capable and do have the charm and skill to carry the film over its 90 minutes running time. The film does not lag or waste any time introducing parental relationships and defining the social structure of high school culture it exists within its own universe of undead, scouts, strippers, boobs and pussies of all sorts. It's well edited, the script is tight,the photography is bright and clean and is definitely worth a viewing.

I just hope the producers don't plan a long series of low budget pointless sequels and just let the film find its own appreciative audience over the coming years.

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6/10

the concept is there

SnoopyStyle1 January 2017

A slacker janitor at a lab causes chaos unleashing the zombie apocalypse. Augie Foster, Ben Goudy and Carter Grant are best friends and scouts. They are also getting old to be scouts under Scout Leader Rogers (David Koechner). Nobody else is signing up. Ben and Carter want to leave. They hit a deer on the road. Carter's sister Kendall Grant, her boyfriend Jeff and her friend Chloe stop on their way to a party. The deer disappears. Ben and Carter plan to sneak away from the scout campout later that night to join the party. Rogers is attacked by zombies. Ben befriends hot strip club waitress Denise Russo who buys beer for the boys and later come to their rescue.

The concept is right there in the title. The start is alright. It's all set up and ready to go. I am expecting something smart and funny like Shaun of the Dead. The first thing I would add is some kind of Scout handbook (Guide) which the boys use to battle the zombies. The closest is Augie trying to scare the Britney Spears zombie. That could have been funnier but at least they tried. It's a lot hot women, zombies, and three geeky dudes. The guys are non-descript but solid geeks. The writing is simply not smart enough. It's still better than most zombie B-movies. This could be something really fun but it's only more of the same.

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4/10

A film of zombies, by zombies and for zombies

lucasversantvoort14 December 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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7/10

In the best scouting movie since MOONRISE KINGDOM . . .

oscaralbert9 November 2015

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. . . this flick shows America why we still need scouts. While everyone else is driving through the doors of gun shops each time a zombie apocalypse breaks out, scouts crash their commandeered Catmobiles into Home Depots, supremely confident in their ability to construct jerry-rigged bombs, flamethrowers, and RPE's (Rocket-Propelled Eightballs) with the components found there. The title characters of SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE belong to the American Scouting Society, which has a more fundamental acronym than does the BSA (Boy Scouts of America). This SSA-backwards group also has way cooler merit badges compared to the BSA, including Strip Club Spelunking, Straw-Man Beer Purchase, and the always elusive Heterosexual Experience Reward (HER). But once an A.S.S. scout gets HER, she can consider herself gotten in a big way, as Kendall finds out here. When Cloris Leachman was devouring a high schooler in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, it was considered a January-December Affair. She's still at it nearly 50 years later--that should count as A Whole 'Nother Apocalypse!

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The title is the funniest thing about the movie

Wizard-830 October 2017

I imagine that there is an audience out there for a movie like this - namely immature adolescents who are tickled by the mere mention or display of violent and sexual material. Older viewers like myself will probably find the movie a non stop display of desperation by the screenwriters and the director. It's possible to make a funny, gory and outrageous zombie movie - check out Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive", for example. But you have to be clever and imaginative, and this movie simply isn't for the most part. It all feels very labored and heavy handed. Another big problem is that all the characters - including the scouts - aren't all that likable or sympathetic. You won't care about them, and will wish that they'll all be killed quickly so that the movie will end early. The movie also has some telltale signs that it was severely cut down in the editing room, given a number of plot points feel rushed and/or incomplete. It's easy to see why this performed very dismally at the box office.

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7/10

An excellent addiction to the zombie drama.

subxerogravity30 October 2015

The Boy Scouts prove that they are prepared for everything, when three of them have to save their town from a walking dead outbreak.

I saw this at a midnight screening and it was absolutely perfect for this. It's a great R rated teen comedy that was hilarious, that was gory and had a little nudity. Perfect!

It started off lame for me. The movie had an origin for the apocalypse, which was appreciated (but never really necessary for a zombie movie). Not a good start to the action , which starts quickly after and never stops. Neither does the hilariousness.

Worth it to see the great Cloris Leachman as one of the undead. In fact, the movie had a bunch of really cool zombie moments.

It's almost as fun as Shaun of the Dead, so definitely a must see.

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6/10

The Vidiot Reviews...

capone6664 January 2016

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

The scariest thing in the world to the Boy Scouts of America is a gay man applying to be a Scout Leader.

The second scariest thing - as this horror movie surmises - is likely the undead.

When an infected janitor (Blake Anderson) escapes a laboratory, he contaminates the residents of a small-town, including Scout Leader Rogers (David Koechner).

When Rogers doesn't show for their campout, mature Scouts Ben (Tye Sheridan) and Grant (Logan Miller) ditch their dutiful Scout friend Augie (Joey Morgan) for a senior party.

The troubled troupe – now including a shotgun-touting cocktail waitress (Sarah Dumont) - reunites to defeat the horde that has descended on the celebration.

Despite its wafer thin set-up and horny teenage boy discourse, this campy addition to the genre manages to bring some genuine laughs and innovative zombie killing methods along.

In other news, the Boys Scouts of America now accepts transgender zombies.

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7/10

A fun and enjoyable adventure that deserves more love

stephendaxter22 December 2015

'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is a zombie horror/comedy that well, pits a group of scouts against a zombie apocalypse.... pretty self explanatory. The title alone should give you a really good idea about the type of film you are going to get, a very campy zombie comedy that isn't fussed with what people would really do. For me, i really wasn't expecting much at all from this film, the trailer looked OK and i was expecting to book in an average horror comedy, but i really enjoyed this movie. Was it incredibly original? No, it follows a lot of the usual beats that you tend to find in these zombie apocalypse comedies. So where it can't perform in original storytelling it has to excel in the comedy and horror elements, and i thought it did a good job at that consistently after the 30 minute mark. There were some kinda funny moments, some really funny moments and a few horror elements thrown in there. Overall it was actually a really fun time.

I will start with the first 30 minutes of the film which wasn't that good at all. It spent the opening 30 minutes introducing a tonne of characters and hinting at many things that would come into play later on whilst also just teasing the presence of zombies in a few scenes. It was really starting to drag on as nothing of interest was happening except for a few small laughs here and there. The biggest thing that got me through this opening was the characters and also the performances behind them. I really liked the chemistry that the trio of scouts had, it made for some really funny and entertaining moments and made you care about them. Even the secondary characters and their interactions with the scout trio were pretty fun to watch. But this opening was just all over the place and oddly paced and should have been condensed down to 20 minutes to get straight to the point of the film quickly. But once the zombie apocalypse rather abruptly arrives, the fun begins.

From the moment you find out the zombie apocalypse has really begun, the silliness of the film takes over and i loved every minute of it. This film clearly doesn't take anything seriously and that was the best part. The way they react to the zombies and choose to deal with them throughout the film makes for some really really funny moments. There was one moment in the film, without spoiling anything major where a zombie joins in to a Britney Spears musical number and i completely lost it. It was hilarious, and although it was only short i wanted it to keep going, it came out of nowhere and was probably my favourite part of the film. Also just the distinct personalities of these characters play off each other really well and as a result you also get some surprisingly interesting character development throughout. Who thought i would be praising character development in a silly zombie comedy.

In terms of the horror, it wasn't scary at any point because of the overall tone of the film being very silly, but there were a couple of tense zombie moments broken up by some more campy humour. But even though there wasn't any horror, the fact that the film uses practical effects for what i thought was like 98% of the film was not only really impressive for how good it looked but it also made everything better to watch. The fact that you see these zombies getting smashed up and it is all using practical effects with blood splatters made it really gory and it looked real and disgusting as oppose to a bunch of CGI crap.

In the end, this was a really fun, enjoyable movie after the first 30 minutes with plenty of humour to go around. The use of makeup, puppets and other practical effects helped to make the film more gory and realistically exaggerated violent. If you are a fan of zombie horror/comedies such as Zombieland it is definitely a good watch. - 6.8

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10/10

L m a o !

cekadah31 December 2015

I laughed my ass off while watching this movie. I had no expectations to what I was about to experience and I'm so glad because I did enjoy it. The last crazy zombie movie I watched was 'Cooties' which is truly an off-the-wall delight and 'Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse' is right up there with it. Good show!

The synopsis states three scouts attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak. But that's really not the plot. Their motive is to save their fellow classmates and one of the scouts sister at a rave party to which the three scouts were not invited. The scouts were given an erroneous address and they must find the real address before the zombie get to the rave first. What they go through to get the address is a laugh riot of grotesque zombie horror that is funny and goofy and perfectly timed.

Casting, acting, dialog are spot on with the spirit of the movie! Light hearted crazy zombie fun done to perfection!

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6/10

Scouts vs. Zombies gotta like that!

philipmorrison-7311824 January 2016

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Comedy and Horror mix well in this coming of age movie. There are some brilliant moments in this movie so it is worth a watch. Zombies and children don't sync, so I would definitely not show this one to the little kiddies. There are adult sexual themes for a well-deserved "R" rating. The movie centers around 3 boy scouts that are getting too old for the camp outs and sitting around the camp fire. The zombie outbreak happens when they are in the woods and when they get back into town; it's an all-out war against the zombies. Add to that, a stripper that knows more about what is going on than the scouts and you have a funny group of survivors trying to save the world.

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5/10

Lightweight but in-the-moment fun.

Troy_Campbell7 November 2015

There are no surprises from Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. It is exactly the juvenile, B-grade schlock-fest that the name insinuates. But let's break it down a bit. Scouts: teenage flicks from any genre often live and die by their casting choices. Here the central trio do a decent job with stereotypical characters; Tye Sheridan's sensitive Ben is likable, Logan Miller's obnoxious Carter is exuberant and Joey Morgan's nerd-tastic Augie is often humorous. Guide: not unexpectedly, the screenplay is not the film's strong point with a threadbare, signposted and clichéd plot. Christopher Landon's zesty direction, however, thankfully injects the tried and tested formula with a rambunctious, carefree energy and a killer soundtrack. Zombie: at this point in the popularity resurgence of the undead in both cinemas and on TV, it's a question of what there is to add to the canon. If this film is an indicator then the answer is nothing, although there are some slight twists on genre convention successfully played for laughs. Apocalypse: perhaps most importantly for a zombie flick, the slapstick uber-violence on display is gleefully gory and bucket loads of (bloody) fun. There is a distinct Evil Dead vibe with the cartoonish nature of the butchery, albeit with the assistance of CGI. A recommendation is hard to give due to Scouts Guide being so lightweight and forgettable, yet it entertains as in-the-moment popcorn silliness.

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10/10

Awesome!!!

vatsarocks18 December 2020

One of the most awesome zombie comedies out there. It's just as good as Zombieland or any other famous zombie comedy movie. I'm really surprised why this movie isn't so popular. If you haven't watched it, you don't know how much you're missing. A must watch.

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7/10

Slick and ShamelessAdd One More to the Sub-Genre

LeonLouisRicci5 February 2016

Never for one Minute does this, another Gross-Out Zombie Gore-Fest, look or Feel Low-Budget. One of its Charms is how Slick the occasionally Sick and Disgusting Stuff is Splattered across the Screen.

It's All Brightly Lit and Colorful with a Mainstream Studio Sheen that jumps off the Screen in High-Def Brilliance. One could Quibble about Wasting all that Money, Time, and Artistic Talent on this Type of instant Trash, but at least the Putrefied Pleasantry is Cool to look at for its Target Audience.

No One, beyond the Concerned Demographics is going to come Near this anyway. The Genre is now so well Known that a Warning isn't even Required to Warn People away. The Folks who go in for this sort of Thing will Be There and Others Not.

It Delivers just the Required amount of By the Numbers Gags and Gore. There is No Buyer's Remorse and the thing Looks so Damn Good it wears its Shameless Well.

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4/10

Two clichéd genres for the price of one!

chaosbaron7 May 2016

Oh movie clichés. I could go on about all the carbon copies of Superbad since its release. Pretty much every coming of age highschool nerdy white kid movie has the same exact set of jokes. The slo mo scene with the emphasis on the nerdy features of the characters set to gangster rap.. the plentiful amount of dick jokes. The epic highschool kid party that would upstage most celebrities (Neighbors, 21 Jump Street, anything with Dave Franco really).

Then you have the zombie film clichés. Dimwitted completely harmless zombies that cannot kill a bunch of pubescent teens yet managed to wipe out a town. Flawless head shots through out (of course, only after the almost immediate realization that you have to shoot them in the head).

There isn't much new here.. beyond that character development does actually show itself to be decent and you may find at least one of the main cast to be like able.

VERDICT: If you love these types of movies then I am sure you will like this. If you spot these clichés and roll your eyes because it is the millionth time you have seen them in the last decade pass this one.

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7/10

Quite funny

gianmarcoronconi21 July 2021

Nice and quite funny movie even if sometimes it is a bit forced both in terms of comedy and in terms of the morals that at all costs it wants to teach, but still it remains a beautiful film that is very watchable and entertaining.

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