TUCKER AND DALE is a spoof on college-kid-slasher movies – the FRIDAY THE 13TH films (all fifty-six of them), CABIN FEVER, even BLAIR WITCH – and, like most of those, becomes boringly predictable from early on. Still, Tyler Labine (as Dale) and Alan Tudyk (as Tucker) have a ball playing the title characters, a duo of lovable hillbillies upending an all too often grotesque stereotype in popular entertainment. It's them and their hilarious one-liners that make my recollection of the film a bit warmer than I actually felt watching it in the theater; they alone could make this B-movie a cult classic.
The two are best buds in the West Virginian Appalachians and thrilled to spend some much-needed vacation time in a dilapidated, lakeside shack in the woods forty miles outside town. While stocking up on supplies at the local store – the drawling owner reads out their list of hilariously sinister purchases, which include a machete and chainsaw -- they encounter a gaggle of obnoxious, entitled college kids. The frat-tastic, boorish males and boobalicious, ditzy cheerleader types get an immediate, negative impression of the sweet-natured duo when Dale approaches them, cluelessly, with a Grim Reaper scythe in hand and asks between anxious giggles, "You guys goin' campin'?" His pseudo-psycho behavior is Tucker’s fault however, who gave him the questionable advice to hide his nervousness around women with laughter...
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