Buck Wild

If you're a fan of the Police Academy "school" of "comedy", especially those irresistibly funny later sequels, this should be right up your mouth-breathing alley. A comedy so hopelessly unfunny and boring that I had to finish it in several tries, including a lot of side-activities such as typing this comment while the movie was running, plus trips to the kitchen and the toilet. You need all of that (computer, food, toilet and miscellaneous) in order to sit through this garbage. Well, "sit". You don't sit through it as much as you sort of walk around the room/flat/house occasionally to help wile away the boredom.

The dialog is full of smart-alecky retorts, but on the level of 9 year-olds. Then there is a clownishly gay leader of a hick gang who speaks with a fake posh English accent, and I mention this just to give you a hint how cringe-inducingly dumb this embarrassment is.

If you don't trust my judgment, knock yourself out with this trash.

4 of 10. As slow as zombies are, this film is slower. It takes a long time for the story to kick in. At the beginning, everything seems artificial, concocted. If you skip the first 5-10 minutes, or maybe just watch the prelude than skip to the part with the guy spitting, the film as a whole might be worth a curiosity watch.

It tries to be a zombie gross-out comedy, but it generally ends up spanking itself. If you can stand the thought of watching the equivalent of a made-for-TV goofy, non-scary, simply gross zombie film, you'll probably still end up biting your arm off if stuck in a theater with this. Zombie fans can safely wait for the TV release and may simply want to avoid in order to stay zombie fans.

I saw this movie here in Texas with my common-law wife, during the Dallas International Film Festival.

Buck Wild is a brilliantly crafted zombie horror comedy, with a definite Texan twist.

To begin with, let me just comment briefly on the superb, professional quality of this film. The editing is superb.

The acting and writing achieve what acting and writing is supposed to achieve: the characters and conversations are completely believable (despite the zombie plot), the audience quickly develops affection for the characters and their individual quirks, none of the humor is forced and the jokes are HILARIOUS. Since the editing is so good and the gore-versus-laughs factor is pretty well-balanced, the movie basically feels like you're watching a "good horror" and a "good comedy" at the same time; the two do not detract from each other as is so often the case in the horror-comedy genre (the laughs do not detract from the gore/shocks).

Basically: imagine if you and a group of quirky friends went on a hunting holiday on a ranch in Texas, and ran into a zombie epidemic. This movie basically shows what would happen.

This film deserves to be a cult classic. Now if only the people who own it would put it on DVD, so it could achieve said status...

So I was scanning through movies and came upon this. Didn't expect much of course but I ended up loving it. Is it goofy? Yup, very goofy for sure. Is it an Oscar winner? Not even close to it. It's funny as hell if you don't take it too seriously and just enjoy how goofy it's supposed to be

"Buck Wild" is not really amongst the better of zombie movies that I have seen. With that said, then it should also be said that there are far worse zombie movies out there on the market. And for a production of this caliber, then "Buck Wild" actually fared adequately, however, the movie just failed to be outstanding.

Storywise, then "Buck Wild" doesn't really offer anything overly new to the zombie genre, nor does it really deliver fully on the various aspects that director Tyler Glodt were attempting to accomplish with this movie.

The zombies were adequate, although don't expect shambling decaying corpses here, as it is a batch of freshly reanimated corpses that are found here throughout the movie. Whatever meager effects that were used in the movie were adequate as well, though the movie really didn't have that much blood and gore.

There are some attempts at comedy throughout the movie, but none that really managed to punch through as the ones in "Shaun of the Dead".

Being a zombie aficionado, of course I have to give just about anything even remotely zombiesque a chance; and of course not everything is going to be a masterpiece.

"Buck Wild" is enjoyable in itself for what it is, just don't set yourself up for something grand.