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Cooties
USA 2014
produced by Tove Christensen, Georgy Malkov, Daniel Noah, Steven Schneider, Josh C. Waller, Elijah Wood, Gevond Andreasyan (executive), Sarik Andreasyan (executive), Ian Brennan (executive), George Castrounis (executive), Hayden Christensen (executive), Seth William Meier (executive), Vladimir Polyakov (executive), Michael Wexler (executive), Leigh Whannell (executive) for SpectreVision, Glacier Films
directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion
starring Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Ian Brennan, Jorge Garcia, Cooper Roth, Miles Elliot, Morgan Lily, Sunny May Allison, Armani Jackson, Peter Kwong, Kate Flannery, Matt Jones, Rebecca Marshall, Jake Brennan, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Aiden Lovekamp, Lauren Stovall, Jared Breeze, Nikita Ager, Angela Bullock, Elizabeth Bogush, Boni Yanagisawa, Lauren Katz, Brian Henderson, Tammie Baird, Ashley Rae Miller, Chloe Rose
story by Leigh Whannell, Ian Brennan, Josh C. Waller, screenplay by Leigh Whannell, Ian Brennan, music by Kreng, special effects by Fractured FX
review by Mike Haberfelner
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15 years ago, Clint (Elijah Wood) left rural Mid-Western Fort Chicken
for Brooklyn, NY, to become a writer ... but he still hasn't finished his
first book and has now moved back in with his mum and accepted a job as a
sub teacher for summer school at Fort Chicken High, which he had once
attended as a youngster - and which he knows his crush from back in the
day Lucy (Alison Pill) is a teacher at - but unfortunately he has to find
out her current boyfriend Wade (Rainn Wilson), the school's PE teacher, is
a big bully who'd love to squash Clint. That's not exactly a great
situation to begin with then, but it gets worse when all the prebubescent
kids of the school turn into zombies (due to something that was in the
chicken nuggets served for lunch that day) who suddenly have the urge to
attack, tear apart and eat up their teachers. Problem is they're quick,
can squeeze through almost anything, and they are ... well, kind of smart
actually, still able to reason at least. And suddenly, Clint, Lucy, Wade,
and a bunch of other, mostly useless, teachers, are on the run from who
were their students and who know the school much better than they do ... Cooties
is a pretty fun riff on the zombie genre, with "possessed
children" (not in a literal sense) thrown into the proceedings. The
result is a quirky genre comedy that doesn't shy away from killing
children, making fun of its lead and producer Elijah Wood, making fun of
genre conventions, go pretty goring every now and again, interrupting all
of its sappier moments by inappropriate and at times even politically
incorrect jokes, and keeping things moving at a high pace. Now truth to be
told, the film's not perfect, it's a bit on the glossy, Hollywoodish side,
and even if it at times pushes the envelope a little, it seems to scare
back too soon - seemingly first and foremost to not fall out of favour
with the multiplex crowds. But for a rather mainstream movie, it's at
least spirited, witty, and just plain entertaining, and should get a few
chuckles even out of the fiercest genre enthusiasts.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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