This was the second half of the Mean Girls double feature. This one might require some explanation. I'm going to start with the assumption that everyone reading this has at least heard of Dungeons and Dragons, the tabletop game where you roll dice and pretend to be a barbarian. Sometimes there's figurines involved. That is a dramatic oversimplification. I am aware. Calm down, nerds. Well, when people decide to take the game out of the back room of the local comic shop and put on costumes and hit each other with foam weapons, that is called Live Action Role Playing or LARPing. With me? Okay.Joe (Ryan Kwanten) gets dumped by his girlfriend Beth (Margarita Levieva) and is broken up about it. His two best friends decide that the only way to get Joe out of his funk is to get him wasted and then shanghai him into joining their LARP adventure out in the woods. Unfortunately, while attempting to add more authenticity, Eric (Steve Zahn) accidentally conjures a succubus who takes Beth's form. Demon Beth wanders the woods, making mincemeat out of the defenseless role-players. It's up to Joe, Eric, and requisite token hot chick Gwen (Summer Glau) to send her back to Hell where she belongs.
This is very much in the B-movie category, despite the fact that it stars people whose names you recognize. The special effects are cheesy and the dialogue is deliberately awful. It is funny mostly if you have any experience, first-hand or tangental, of that world. Then there are absolutely people you recognize, like the guy who is on a power trip. The guy who memorized the rulebook and tries to scam every single point allowable. The guy who never breaks character even when it gets weird. This movie does pay homage to all those people and more. It's also definitely a movie that improves the more you drink.
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