Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is about three scouts who are the towns best hope to fight off the horde of zombies. Now this premise is simple enough, and so are the characters. You have the average teen who reasons with everyone, and you have the innocent fat awkward one, then finally you have the trash talker who somehow became friends with the other guys. Now when you come across a zom-com you expect a lot of action and zombie fighting, oh no, not just yet.
This movie tends to have a lot of dragging on until you finally get to see a montage of zombie fighting towards the very end. Now let me be straight here, there are times when the montage sequences are important for the theme message of the film, it isn't just all about gore and tit jokes. There is a time in the movie where towards the beginning the three sophomores are spending time together by building a camp site in order for Augie (Joey Morgan) to receive his condor patch. In these short shots of the three friends making the campsite perfect and enjoying each others time together makes you believe that being a scout can bring friends closer. But this montage becomes ruined because afterwards Carter (Logan Miller) wakes up Ben (Tye Sheridan) to go to the "Secret Senior Party" and leave Augie. This montage becomes the one thing that defines their friendship and makes the audience know that. Then later in the film, they come together as one after Bens speech about becoming the heroes with their scout abilities and go to a department store and gather supplies to help the students at the party by killing the zombies.
This montage sequence becomes a time for all of them to use their scout's abilities to save the day and be best friends once again. After this montage the scout's head to the party and there is a montage of them killing the zombies. I felt as though this montage didn't serve a bigger purpose then what the previous montages did but it was there for the audience to enjoy as a "Hell Yeah" scene. It doesn't serve as effectively as it did about being close with one another but it does serve another purpose of actually showing them helping others out. This cinematic component helped build the movie to what it is by seeing all the good times the friends have and what makes them special in short montages to make the audience feel good and for them too. It gives off that important message that you should stick by your friends and come out victorious in the end instead of giving up because you are doubted by people around you. For these montages to go into full effect, I'm sure the director wanted multiple montages of the teens working together to save the day from the horrific zombie apocalypse.
I have to say that after seeing this movie, it makes me think that this movie is the result of combining Zombieland and Superbad together. It has that vulgar humor from Superbad from the POV of teens, and it has the guide tips from Zombieland. It's just a story of teens that should stick together, getting the girl in the end, and being happy together. Zimple and Zweet.
All in all I give this movie a rating of 6/10
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