![]() ![]() It’s an existential narrative seemingly as old as time itself. John Hughes’ 1985 teen dramedy The Breakfast Club remains one of the best cinematic documents illustrating the differences that exist between young people and adults, while body-swap films like Freaky Friday (1976) have been hilariously recycled on the big screen to explore similar dynamics in age. Pop culture has often highlighted the fundamental differences between adults and children. These fiendish foodies will pay in one way or another for their sins against food industry workers, the working class in general, and their fellow man.Ĭooties, meanwhile, uses Fort Chicken’s traditional elementary school lunch of chicken nuggets in a similar and divergent way. In so doing, the film’s biting humor turns each of the Hawthorn’s guests into a form of a game for the restaurant staff. The satirical class criticism of The Menu utilized the Uber elite Hawthorn setting to demonstrate that the self-absorbed, corrupt upper class can’t appreciate fine dining or the hard work that goes into it. What begins as Clint’s awkward efforts to wrest Lucy from the clutches of her boyfriend, Wade Johnson (Rainn Wilson), turns into a fight for survival by the teaching staff against an army of bloodthirsty elementary kids – transformed into zombie-like killers after eating contaminated chicken nuggets, the only meal prepubescent children are likely to call “food” without devolving into a temper tantrum at dinnertime. ![]() Cooties tells the story of Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood), an aspiring horror writer working by day as a substitute teacher, who finds himself at Fort Chicken Elementary for a substitute assignment and face-to-face with his high school crush Lucy McCormick (Alison Pill). ![]()
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