Blumhouse's Truth or Dare gets my grade of D for dumb

Movie Title:   Blumhouse's Truth or Dare

Grade:   D for dumb

Rating: PG-13

In a Nutshell:  Brought to the Big Screen by the same producers as the award winning Get Out   and Happy Death Day this horror teen flick scored a terrible 15% on Rotten Tomatoes for being lame.  

It's so bad that I can see teens renting it on Red Box so they can laugh at it in their mom’s basement while snacking on Cheetos on a Friday night.

                               

Tips for parents: 

• Peer pressure
• Spring Break “debauchery”
• Where are the parents in this movie?
• Where are the bras in this movie?
• Some profanity and crude language.
• A teen sets a woman on fire
• Underage drinking and drunk teens
• Talk of sex and lots of kissing
• Gay teens kissing
• People die in brutal ways.
• Creepy voices and faces
• Lots of risky behavior
• Guns
• Talk of suicide 

Uplifting theme: 

• Choice and accountability
• Sacrifice for others
• Don’t get drunk and make stupid choices 

                                             

Things I liked:

• Shout-out for Habitat 4 Humanity
• My kids make that same creepy face that the “truth or dare” demon made people make, so it actually made me laugh. I'm sure it's supposed to be scary, but everyone just laughs. 

Things I didn’t like:

• Most of the characters are tools, so it’s hard to care very much about them.  You pretty much WANT them to die.
• Super clichéd dialogue
• Super cliched scenes
• Plot holes
• Snapchat opening sequence, which was kind of interesting and lame at the same time.  I hate Snapchat. 
• When one of the friends would die, the other friends never even stopped to mourn, but would just go about their day.
• The last few scenes were just stupid.
• The best friends constantly turn on each other.
• The back story between Olivia and Markie was just lame.
• Stupid jump scares.
• Halfway through the movie, the rules of Truth or Dare change. Lame.
• If you want to see a fun horror movie with a PG-13 rating and still in theaters now, go see A QUIET PLACE.

Funny lines:

• “Your dad didn’t know you were gay?  Your ring tone is Beyonce.” – Lucas Moreno (Tyler Posey)

“Everyone loves Beyonce.” – Brad Chang (Hayden Szeto)

                               

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