The character develops so much during the film and is completely different by the end.
He plays Wade, a character that I’m not entirely sure I can sum up easily due to the complexity of his nature.
He is just one of a wonderful cast of characters and Rainn Wilson is the standout performer after Wood. There is literally no realisation in his face that what he is doing serves no-one but him. He is eagerly anticipating a positive review from the children and the level of excitement on his face is wonderfully caught by Wood, but deep down there is also the underlying sense of ego as he doesn’t realise it’s inappropriate to waste the lesson time with personal endeavours. There is a scene right at the beginning where Clint is getting the children in his new class to read out the manuscript for his new book and it sums the character up perfectly. Wood has that great ability to portray a character who is very needy and self-absorbed, but is somehow still likeable. Wood’s portrayal as the neurotic main character is near perfect, it suits him right down to the ground and it was almost like he was born for this role. Let’s start with the positives and there is no better place to cement the foundations of the positive part of this review than talking about Elijah Wood. There are a lot of parts about Cooties that I like, but there is also a bit that I dislike and therefore I am slightly torn over whether it was decent or not.
Is it a decent zombie film or the typical nonsense? With this and the knowledge that they can’t be turned, the teachers all try and break out, all the while watching helplessly as the children make short work of unsuspecting parents that are coming to pick them up. The teachers all realise that they need to escape the school to survive, but they also stumble across some unaffected children that have seemingly started adolescence, and Doug theorises that the virus is only affecting those that have yet to go through puberty. They do eventually realise what is happening when socially awkward teacher Doug (Whannel) comments.
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After taking Patriot to the nurse, Clint and Lucy sit down for a meal in the staff room, completely unaware that the playground is full of children attacking each other and the few adults that remain. Patriot then turns his attentions to the girl who ate the chicken nugget after she starts breathing heavily, and she reacts by biting a huge chunk. Clint walks into his first lesson with his new class and is immediately antagonised by Patriot (Cooper Roth). Meanwhile, a student bites into a chicken nugget in the canteen and starts showing signs of illness. Within minutes of starting he has already alienated him from most of the staff, with the exception of Lucy (Pill), a childhood friend, who is genuinely pleased to see him. So I wait here with anticipation to see if a cast of well-known actors can pull off a decent horror flick….I’m not going to hold my breath as I’ve seen plenty of films with decent casts be abysmal, but I suppose I should give it a chance.Ĭlint (Wood), a writer who has spent the last few years in New York, has returned to his home town of Fort Chicken to take up a teaching job whilst writing his next book. Resident Evil is to this day the only film where I have ever listened to the director’s commentary, and I feel passionately that if done right, this is a great genre, hence why the first review I ever wrote on this site was for a zombie film, but the number of decent zombie movies never really increases by the years, with very few even making it into the high tolerability range. Growing up I was a huge fan of the genre and have probably seen more than 100 films based on the zombie theme.
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Ranging from the Paul Anderson’s horrible Resident Evil films, the bland final instalments of George A Romero’s “of the Living Dead” series and countless found footage films, the genre really hasn’t been having a good run recently, and even the Brad Pitt hit “World War Z” has done little to improve the general perception of things. The zombie franchise is one that has, no pun intended, died a very slow death in recent years due to a plethora of predictable and boring approaches to the subject matter. I hate every single one of you.ĭirector: Jonathan Milott and Cary MurnionĬast: Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill and Jorge Garcia Since you’re all going to be dead soon anyway, I should tell you.
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