This may have gone straight to DVD in the UK and shot quickly and cheaply, but Tucker and Dale vs Evil is made and performed with real attention and love of the genre. It is a delightfully daft story of misrepresentations and misinterpretations that unwittingly pits two hillbillies (wonderfully played by Tyler Labine and the ever-brilliant Alan Tudyk) against vacationing college kids in an escalating and deadly battle which neither of the parties realise is completely unnecessary. Tucker and Dale is one of the best-written and best-realised double-acts of recent times, the script is mostly cleverly-constructed and very wry (co-written by director Eli Craig), and amongst the general humour are a couple of genuine laugh-out-loud moments (the woodchipper scene is simply comedy genius). The low budget clearly shows in the limited locations and the sometimes flat TV-style shooting, and the final act does not quite hit the heights of the rest of the film, but Tucker and Dale... is well-crafted, hugely enjoyable and very entertaining.
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