From the 12 year old mentality of Joss comes Cliché the Movie

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2012)

At this point a condescendingly ironic movie about genres is a cliché in itself. Joss Whedon & company take every cliché you have seen in horror movies & make a loud, unfunny "wink wink" to nerds who apparently can't get enough drugs, boobs or blood. Commenting on the mythology, spook stories and slasher clichés does not forgive rehashing it with bad dialogue. The twist *SPOILER* of the movie is nothing new. Night Dreams is a far superior porn movie with the exact same type of questioning of reality that Philip K. Dick novels explore. Cold observers studying people and and recording the results for us in the audience. The Scream movies were at least funny and stuck to one type of horror cliché. They throw everything at the audience with a loud thud to make you jump from surprise not out of any honestly earned horror. It was cute to see a unicorn or merman but the blandness stifled a laugh. A Ghost, wolf, Hellraiser Cenobite, unicorn, H. P. Lovecraft monster, snake and the most over used, Zombies. The notable missing homage is to the Exorcist (although there was green vomit among the chaos) to remind you of a classic well made film might remind you that this is just Evil Dead without the skill of Sam Raimi, Joel Coen or Bruce Campbell. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the greatest success for these writers. I think their stunted nerdy obsessions are the right maturity level for high school girls. Joss avoids adult themes or creative dialogue to rely on pop culture references and lines from other movies. His string of ill-fated scripts include Alien: Resurrection, Firefly, Dollhouse. All of which had good nuggets of ideas buried in embarrassing lines & lost opportunities in plot. Buy EVIL DEAD 2 and forget this movies sad Family Guy humor.