Cooties Argumentative Essay

It might seem a little strange that it 's taken until 2015 for us to finally have a movie about cooties - the fictional childhood illness that you "get" from members of the opposite sex - but there you have it. Now we do have one, appropriately titled "Cooties," although it has decided to take schoolyard sickness, make it a reality, and turn its victims into savage cannibals. Oh, and keeping with the spirit of its real-life "inspiration," the only people who are affected by it are those who haven 't gone through puberty. What we have on our hands, folks, is a killer children movie - and maybe a zombie movie, if you want to call its antagonists "zombies." See, it 's scary because children are already creepy and evil, and now they 're also cannibals.

It starts off quite funny, actually; for its first 20 minutes or so, it looks like it 's going to be a smart satire of both outbreak movies and killer children movies. It isn 't taking itself particularly seriously, and it has several clever lines. Unfortunately, it doesn 't stay like this throughout. By the time limbs are flying, it gets too serious, too stock, and even the gleeful murder of children who were obnoxious before and bloodthirsty now can 't save the film from being anything more than a passable distraction.

When the movie tries to build to its finale, which involves some of the bloodiest, over-the-top violence you 're going to see this year, it begins to get boring. It 's more enjoyable when it 's pointing out and making fun of some of the tropes of the genre than when it 's actively imbibing in them. It never gets flat-out boring, but it does feel frustrating that it had so much potential that gets wasted in favor of a more generic conclusion - right up to its non-ending of a final scene, which comes across like the filmmakers ran out of money and had to come up with an impromptu way to end the