Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 30, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Manori RavindranOct 29, 2015
The film, as entertaining as it is, doesn’t exactly further a genre that has been stale since the success of 2013 rom-zom-com Warm Bodies.... What’s promising about Scouts Guide, though, are its unlikely heroes. Read full review
60
EmpireSimon CrookNov 2, 2015
A likable horror-comedy with a satisfyingly high splatter count. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerOct 29, 2015
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 full review
60
Screen DailyCharles GantOct 29, 2015
Genre fans close in age to the characters depicted onscreen should be appreciative of the enjoyably familiar mix of inspired comedy moments, smart zingers, grossout gags and nudity offered by the apostrophe-phobic Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaOct 29, 2015
This “Guide” is not for everyone; it gleefully earns its hard-R rating. But folks who enjoy their teen humor splattered with zombie guts won’t be disappointed. Scout’s honor. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 28, 2015
It doesn’t have the laughs or the killer cast of “Superbad,” but there are gory giggles aplenty in this B-movie addition to the genre that displaced vampires once Edward impregnated Bella. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganNov 4, 2015
It doubles down on gross-out sight gags that 13-year-old boys should find hilarious, if no one else. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeOct 29, 2015
On the plus side, the film is high energy and moves quickly. And some of the zombie gore effects are fun, reaching nearly Raimi-esque heights of splatter during the climactic battle. None of it is really scary, though, especially since it’s so predictable. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNov 2, 2015
The aim here seems to be to replace startled gasps with shocked guffaws. The results are contrary to Scout Law — not Kind, Clean or Reverent. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 2, 2015
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 full review
25
The PlaylistMichael ArbeiterOct 30, 2015
If you’re not too undone by agitation with Carter’s umpteenth quip about the female body, you may even work up a smile over some of these sweeter moments involving the uniformed trio. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 29, 2015
A horror-comedy that takes a weak premise (do high school boys even go scouting anymore?) and barely uses it, anyway. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEric HendersonOct 29, 2015
The flick is an artless, puerile shadow of the likes of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Cornetto trilogy. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 29, 2015
Loud, repellent, badly written, indifferently directed and almost completely devoid of any genuine laughs, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is essentially a film for 12-year-old boys who can still derive some kind of basic entertainment for the mere sight of spurting blood or a bare breast, all the better if they can appear at the same time Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangOct 29, 2015
A witless undead retread served up as a vulgar revenge-of-the-dorks comedy. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeOct 29, 2015
Sheridan proves he can still act the crap out of a movie, even when crap is all the movie has to offer. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 30, 2015
A disregard for the rules established by George Romero (or the alternatives imagined by Danny Boyle) is far from the only problem with Christopher Landon's film, which does prove one thing fairly handily: Even beings deprived of the intellect and spirit granted to living humans can team up to produce a major studio motion picture. Read full review
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