After watching the trailer, I got
pretty intrigued by Cooties’ premise,
so I watched it. The movie is about an outbreak in an elementary school of a
zombie infection that exclusively affects prepubescent kids, turning almost all of its students into zombies, and besieging the surviving members of the faculty.
The nutty set-up is a fresh spin on the genre, and I was hoping that it would
translate into a clever and hilarious horror-comedy in the same vein of Shawn of the Dead.
Unfortunately, that wouldn’t be the case.
Cooties’ gags made me crack a smile at most, but all in all, it’s barely
funny. It’s utterly stupid and
bland. Even Elijah Wood’s charming presence
is unable to elevate the movie. It’s a
shame, really, for the premise is pretty original. Heck, even the choice of title had been a witty
one. If only the script had been better,
Cooties could have been the next Shawn of the Dead instead of another forgettable
zombie flick.
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