funniest send-up of a genre i've seen since airplane!

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2011)

i saw the trailer for this movie online - at first, thought "what is this?" - watched the trailer again and laughed so hard, i started crying. at that point, i knew that the idea of seeing alan tudyk playing a hillbilly in a send-up of all the slasher films based on the concept of "deliverance"-esque type guys vs. suburban kids away for a weekend was going to be worth the watch. i mention alan tudyk because i have a special place in my heart for him after "firefly" and "serenity".
i was so right. *everyone* in this film was good if not great. tucker and dale played off each other perfectly; the actors' chemistry was incredible, and they should consider working together on other films. there were several scenes where i laughed so hard, i missed dialogue. the only thing that prevents me from scoring it higher than 8/10 is that about 3/4 of the way through, the movie dragged a bit for me - there was about 10 minutes where the movie lost a bit of momentum, and i was no longer fully in the movie. once past that, the movie went right back to the same tempo and it finished as strong as it started.