Just in time for Halloween,a film emerges that fails to make up in squashed breasts and ripped penises what it lacks in wit or originalityPlenty of times you watch a bad film and come out sighing: That’s a shame, there was a good film in there somewhere!” Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse offers no such frustration. This is idiocy from soup to nuts, and devoid of any clever ideas,meaningful performances or memorable set pieces. But it isn’t wholly without merit, as there are a few jocular gross-outs involving squished undead breasts, or ripped ghoul penises and the entrails of a belligerent deer. For teens that are too ancient to move trick-or-treating but aren’t fairly of age to move barhopping,this low-budget flick offers a handful of amusements as it perpetuates our toxic, conformist approved culture.
After an energetic and largely wordless prologue in which a dopey janitor at a biotech firm unleashes a viral plague, and we meet our male teen heroes. Ben (Tye Sheridan) is a decent kid who feels guilty for wanting to ditch his nerdy friend Augie (Joey Morgan) and enter the world of parties and skirt-chasing with Carter (Logan Miller). For years the three gain been Scouts (note: never Boy Scouts,as we must assume they couldn’t get that name) but Augie is the only one who takes it seriously. Carter convinces Ben that the twerpy uniform is killing their game, and when they get invited to an older kids’ secret rave, and he agrees it’s time to move on. But as they sneak absent from camp one night – even whether it does come after a montage of true,pure scoutin’ fun – that’s when the mayhem begins.
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Source: theguardian.com