History YMMV / TuckerAndDaleVsEvil

-->'''Allison:''' It's true, Chad! You're half-hillbilly!

* HilariousInHindsight: The primary villain's name is Chad, an egotistical Fratboy with a ''massive'' case of EntitledToHaveYou - predating [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang) the popular rise of the name as slang]] for an overly-aggressive "Alpha Male" type.

* NightmareFuel:
** Mitch's death via tree branch, while initially funny, becomes quite disturbing for some.
** With all the references to rape and brutal murder sequences, the flashbacks showing the Memorial Day Massacre are rather out of place in such a light-hearted film, feeling more like one of Creator/WesCraven's early works, ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' or ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977''.
** [[spoiler:Chad. Make no mistake, he's the "Evil" the title refers to, being a twisted parody of the typical slasher movie hero. Far from morally upstanding or even relatively good, he's not so much incompetent as his clumsy-ass friends as he is flat-out unhinged. He leads a charge against Tucker and Dale, and while it's mostly due to his paranoia, the cracks in his psyche start to show when he intimidates his friends into attempting murder, holds a dog hostage, tries to burn the hillbillies ''after'' they try to talk things out and sexually assaults Allison.]]
-->'''Jason:''' That's fucked up.

* AccidentalAesop: The film seems to have as its message "unless you are actually trained in combat, or you have no choice, don't try and play the action hero and call the authorities if you're in a dangerous situation." Allison's friends may have meant well, but they were clearly out of their depth, not just in assessing the situation but in actually fighting the "deranged hillbillies". If Allison had been in danger, she would've been screwed. Chad himself seems somewhat physically capable, but since he's [[spoiler:a mentally unhinged jerk with a severe grudge]], he ends up creating ''more'' problems than he actually solves.

** On one level, the moral of the story is that PoorCommunicationKills... but this is challenged by the fact that the characters literally sit down around a table to talk out their grievances and resolve the situation with reason and ''it doesn't work at all'', as talking doesn't immediately equal to true communication. An alternate take is that some people (*cough* Chad *cough*) simply can't be reasoned with, no matter how good your intentions are. Now the communication may have seemed at first to be having the desired effect - until those that were LockedOutOfTheLoop interfered, thinking that the situation had turned hazardous, which Chad saw as a chance to resume his killing attempts and show that talking is of no help when it falls on deaf ears.

** [[spoiler:Chad. Make no mistake, he's the "Evil" the title refers to, being a twisted parody of the typical slasher movie hero. Far from morally upstanding or even relatively good, he's not so much incompetent as his clumsy-ass friends as he is flat-out unhinged. He leads a charge against Tucker and Dale, and while it's mostly due to his paranoia, the cracks in his psyche start to show when he intimidates his friends into attempting murder, holds a dog hostage, tries to burn the hillbillies AFTER they try to talk things out and sexually assaults Allison.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The sheriff's gun that "has the safety left on" is a revolver with no safety.

* IdiotPlot: PlayedForLaughs. The ''only'' reason any of the kids get killed is because they collectively have the same lack of self-preservation instincts and make the same [[TooDumbToLive braindead decisions]] as you'd expect from [[GenreBlindness your average horror movie cast,]] with inevitably lethal results. [[spoiler:Except for Chad, who is both WrongGenreSavvy and genuinely malevolent.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Almost ''all'' of the college students, obviously.
** Dale is ''such'' a passive nice guy that he advises taking the safety off ''to a kid who wants to shoot him''.

** The other Aesop is "don't blame your misfortunes on others" and "don't hold a grudge". What Chad's family went through was beyond horrific, but Chad venting his anger on the hillbillies only creates more harm and pain. Had he been willing to let go of his anger [[spoiler: his friends wouldn't have died and he would've been horribly disfigured]].

* AccidentalAesop: The film seems to have as its message "unless you are actually trained in combat, don't try and play the action hero." Allison's friends may have meant well, but they are clearly out of their depth, not just in assessing the situation but in actually fighting the "deranged hillbillies". If Allison had been in danger, she would've been screwed. Chad himself seems somewhat physically capable, but since he's [[spoiler:a mentally unhinged jerk with a severe grudge]], he ends up creating ''more'' problems than he actually solves.

* AccidentalAesop: The film seems to have as its message "unless you are actually trained in combat, don't try and play the action hero." Allison's friends may have meant well, but they are clearly out of their depth, not just in assessing the situation but in actually fighting the "deranged hillbillies". If Allison had been in danger, she would've been screwed. Chad himself seems somewhat physically capable, but since he's [[spoiler: a mentally unhinged jerk with a severe grudge]], he ends up creating ''more'' problems than he actually solves.

--> '''Tucker''': (After the wood chipper has mulched Mike so much that it jams.) "Are you okay?"

--> '''Allison''': It's true, Chad! You're half-hillbilly!
* NightmareFuel:

--> '''Jason:''' That's fucked up.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: On one level, the moral of the story is that PoorCommunicationKills... but this is challenged by the fact that the characters literally sit down around a table to talk out their grievances and resolve the situation with reason and ''it doesn't work at all'', as talking doesn't immediately equal to true communication. An alternate take is that some people (*cough* Chad *cough*) simply can't be reasoned with, no matter how good your intentions are. Now the communication may have seemed at first to be having the desired effect - until those that were LockedOutOfTheLoop interfered, thinking that the situation had turned hazardous, which Chad saw as a chance to resume his killing attempts and show that talking is of no help when it falls on deaf ears.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jason, Chloe and Chuck of the college kids all have their fans for combining some truly astounding IdiotBall moments with a little genuine pathos and sanity in noticing There's something messed up with Chad's strategies.