Break out the popcorn, Momma!

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2013)

While the title may fail to clue you up on what this riotous comedy from the writer/director of Zombieland, the IMDb score might.
Unlike many movies of the difficult horror-comedy/black comedy genre, Tucker and Dale really delivers with an intelligent script and a genuine heart; lovingly sending up the classic typecasting of Hillbilly/Rednecks we came to fear in Deliverance and Southern Comfort.
It's hard to imagine that Eli Craig has not been influenced to some extent by the classic Ealing comedies, although I can't know that for sure, because his characters are infused with qualities that both surprise and delight.
Lavine and Tudyk clearly revel in portraying the title characters, playing for laughs with a deal of poverty-stricken pathos as they are seemingly, despite their best efforts, dragged deeper into a convoluted, but never overly contrived plot, filled with blood, gore, mayhem and belly laughs.
This is jet-black comedy at perhaps its very best.
Break out the Pepsi and Popcorn, Momma - yeee-haa!