Still, all adults are doomed as fresh meat. Advertisement. To survive the swarm, Clint teams up with a kooky batch of teachers, consisting of often funny actors this movie lazily treats with a broad attitude. Rainn Wilson plays a macho gym teacher whose dorkiness precedes him, adorned with a handlebar mustache and a massive truck in the parking lot whose dual rear wheel feature he cant pronounce properly. Theres also Alison Pills Lucy, the welcoming but emotionally repressed teacher whose thinly written experience will leave one pining for her peppy teaching days aboard Snowpiercer in Bong Joon hos film of the same name. To create tension between the two, Wade and Lucy are dating, while Clint harbors a schoolboy crush for her. Despite these three interesting actors, very little arises from this character tension, each of them having to fall back on their basic construction, their dynamics sharing the same fate. Brought along for the shenanigans are Jack Mc. Brayer, Nasim Pedrad and Jorge Garcia, each with very few jokes to offer, and even less story involvement Mc. Brayer plays a man whose single joke is that hes gay, for example. The scripts quirkiness is hoarded by two characters Ian Brennans zany, hippie vice principal, and Leigh Whannells sex ed teacher Doug, as comically introduced reading a book on how to start conversations with people. It doesnt seem to be a coincidence that these last two are also the films screenwriters. Perhaps even they were trying to write themselves out of the projects abysmal sense of humor Though Cooties keeps a playful attitude, theres no jolt of surprise to be found within the teacher groups various survival shenanigans. They are simply relocated from one location to the next, with inserted shots of hungry kiddies providing neither horror nor comedy to their journey. Every now and then a clever script detail might rise above its self inflicted sea of boredom I laughed when Doug casually remarked Oh, look, carnage about the kiddies causing bloody havoc outside, and was later surprised to see a weapon made out of a batting cage machine. But when a racist character plops into the third act to be a hero, it isnt a disappointment for Cooties, just a confirmation of its limited, toxic imagination. Advertisement. Milott and Murnions unpromising directorial debut is the type of movie to also sabotage its visual potential, creating a plain genre event out of a unique setting and horde for its zombie apocalypse. Even its curious promise of mixing a fourth grade classrooms color palette with blood and guts leaves a monotonous sight. Free Windows Vista Home Basic Iso Ita Download Adobe. Meanwhile, the action of kids running around playing epidemic seems like much more fun for the young actors the grown ups are stuck watching edge less violence that is over prepared and chopped up with protective cutaways. Cooties is appropriately silly, but it isnt sharper than an elementary sense of humor or horror. Theres no inspiration outside of its concept to push viewers towards the unexpected, relying on the yawning shock of kids getting in touch with their inner bad seed. Cooties is meant to be a big joke, but with such a stunted imagination for its story or style, its only a single gag.