Bright moments do seep through the mush, but juvenile bathroom jokes and too much reliance on uninteresting subsidiary characters bog the movie down. And when you do movies about locals who are meant to be quaintly backward but actually brighter than city slickers, like Chicago-based Dawson, you had better give the hicks some dimension and wit. That doesn't happen here, unless the actors, like Barry Corbin, who plays the sheriff and Little League coach, have some zip. Director Rash does set up some amusing bits, but then they run too long or don't pan out. For example, the SWAT team gets diverted from the Sip and Zip and instead heads to a drive-through restaurant.
People start shooting handguns, rifles, automatic weapons.
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