When a movie looks too good to be true, it, much like everything else, usually is. On the rare occasion it lives up to the hype, the need to sings its praises becomes even greater.
Three rising high school juniors, who are also three best friends are all getting ready for the end of another school year. The only problem is that two of them Carter and Ben are looking to ditch scouts and move on with their lives. As Carter describes it, if they are still wearing scouts uniforms, it’s like the male chastity belt. Neither of them wants to break this news to the third friend Augie, because he is getting his “Condor Badge” and they don’t want to ruin to moment. The bigger problem is that the badge ceremony also happens to be on the same night as the “secret senior party” Ben and Carter were just invited to… also the night of a zombie outbreak.
It wouldn’t be a horror movie marathon without a comedy, or a zombie flick. Luckily Scouts Guide does well to cover both columns. I saw the preview for this flick a really long time ago and remember hoping that it would pan out well. Though I have repeatedly said that the zombie genre of films has really run its course, just about every year, there is some spin on it that reels me back in.
There isn’t really anything that stands out in Scouts Guide that I do not like, and that’s rare. The pacing, the acting, the writing, pretty much everything is spot on as it pertains to the whole of the movie. One of my biggest pet peeves with movies revolving around high school is the overuse of slang. Here it really could have detracted from the script, but it never came up. Unlike the atrocious “Jennifer’s Body”, Scouts Guide doesn’t shove the “hey, we’re teens and we don’t talk like you, old man” down your throat. I appreciate that.
Humor in a horror movie isn’t new, and won’t go away, but the ability to make it all work cohesively is where movies like that usually fall apart. Scouts Guide is one of those rare few (up there with Zombieland, and Tucker and Dale) that manages to use what it has in a creative way. It’s a movie that is well worth watching. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy an A-Team like montage of making weapons?
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