Unfortunately, it is not as funny as Return of the Living Dead, nor does it have the intensity and dread of 28 Days Later. It has the wacky over-the-top sensibility of the former, and the fast-toxin-almost-zombie structure of the latter. It feels like it wanted to be a mashup of Return of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later. The cast has a great comedy pedigree, stocked with veteran TV comedic talents like Wilson, Nasim Pedrad ( Saturday Night Live), Jack McBrayer ( 30 Rock), and Jorge Garcia ( Lost). I dug the trailer, and was looking forward to seeing this. The teachers determine to find a vaccine before the epidemic gets further out of hand, and before those pesky kids catch them.Ĭonceptually, this had a lot of potential. The surviving teachers rally and make a break from the school to get help, but the infection appears to be spreading across the country. Then, a tainted chicken nugget lunch turns the entire school into savage little killers, and naturally, the contagion is dubbed “Cooties.” The teachers manage to discover that the illness affects only kids who have not yet hit puberty yet, in a bit of what could only be described as fourth-grade scientific analysis, and soon most of the student population is infected. He’s a failed novelist, who is now coming back to his home town where a number of his old classmates have taken up teaching jobs at their old school, including his old flame, Lucy (Alison Pill from The Newsroom) and the old jock/bully Wade (Rainn Wilson) who is still living his glory days as a gym teacher. Shrugs all around.Ĭlint (Elijah Wood) returns back to his small town roots to take up a teaching job at his old grade school. Bloody (occasionally) and goofy (sometimes) mayhem (almost) ensues. The zombie-pocalypse begins in an elementary school playground, and the kids turn on the teachers. ★★ 1 out of ★★★★★ĭirected by Jonathon Milott and Cary Murnion Clint (Elijah Wood) gets overpowered by a raging ten-year-old.

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