If you've ever had a fear that one day all the little prepubescent children eating chicken nuggets during lunch would suddenly turn on you, then Cooties shows you all the best places to hide in order to survive. Elijah Wood, who stars and co-produces the movie, plays substitute teacher, Clint Hadson, who returns to his hometown of Port Chicken, a quaint suburb in Illinois to clear his mind in efforts of writing a novel. He chooses the wrong day to fill-in, because an odd virus hits the children and turns them into flesh-eating zombies. For the duration of the day, Mr. Hadson and the rest of the teachers spend their time trying to stay alive. Elijah Wood is backed by his quirky team of zombie-fighting teachers played by, Allison Pill, Rainn, Leigh Whannel, Wilson, Jack McBrayer, and Nasim Pedra.
It's no secret that one-liners saved the movie. With a film almost so outrageous, you almost get the sense that part of the comedy was to produce it as an extremely bad movie almost too painful to watch. This isn't to say there weren't parts that make you giggle, but confusion may be the underlying emotion when watching Cooties. Almost nothing made sense, but in a weird way, that's where most of the entertainment came in. There is no way that one could predict what would happen in even the next scene.
Elijah joins forces with Saw co-creator, Leigh Whannell, and Ian Brennan of Glee, to write a witty yet disordered film.
With gruesome fighting scenes and rather profane children that could constitute as delinquent, Cooties, makes for a surprising and fun watch, but more so the movie you watch when you have nothing else to do.
Rating 2/4 stars
