Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse 2015

Kyle Smith, New York Post: If your idea of a hot joke is a strip club called "Lawrence of Alabia," step right up to "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse," a horror-comedy that takes a weak premise (do high school boys even go scouting anymore?) and barely uses it, anyway. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: The Scouts save the day, but not the movie, in this witless zombie-comedy retread. Read more

Katie Rife, AV Club: We ... get zombie diarrhea jokes, zombie fat jokes, zombie selfie jokes, zombie cat-lady jokes, and zombie stripper jokes. And when all of this starts to seem too crass, out come the cliched lessons ... Read more

Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly: After decades of well-trodden zombie tropes, a successful zombie movie has to be at least one of three things: a) original b) funny or c) actually scary. Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse doesn't earn a merit badge in any one of those categories. Read more

Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times: As horror, "Scouts Guide" is too frivolous to thrill. As comedy, it leans too much on scenes that see the teens groping big-breasted topless zombies or the beasties sexually molesting young girls. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The result is a movie that's outrageous without being funny, and gruesome without being scary. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: It's all too dumb and ribald for most tastes, but if you liked all the zombie comedies that came before, well, here's another one. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Well, it's got that title going for it. So there's that. Read more

Michael Ordona, San Francisco Chronicle: "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is exactly what you'd expect. But better. Read more

Manori Ravindran, Globe and Mail: It's the best public relations boost Scouting has had since it ended its ban on gay leaders, not to mention a pretty decent zombie film. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The film falls prey to the zombie curse of excessive laddishness, but at least it finds room for a strong female character. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Too often revels in juvenile gags involving poop and penises, but you can see shards of the film it might have been. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: Will make you want to punch the nearest teenage boy in the face. Read more

Liz Braun, Toronto Sun: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse manages to be a very good comedy, a scary adventure, a tale of friendship and a coming of age story, all rolled into one. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: The gags are mostly puerile and uninspired - like the film was dreamed up by a bunch of tired, wired 13-year-olds; it has their insistence but little of their invention. Read more