A group of teenagers find themselves shipwrecked on an uncharted island off the Mexican coast. Faced with the prospect of a long-term stay, the island soon degenerates into a struggle between two groups; teens who want high school to end as fast as possible, and teens who never want high school to end.
Lindsey Shaw Gary Entin Robert Adamson Chris Kattan Blake Baskin Christina Corigliano Justin Deeley Josslyn DeCrosta Shannon Freyer Ben Graupner Kevin M. Horton Roman Marshanski Jan Milligan Megan Moser Jake Regal Fernando Rivera Tara Shayne Morissa O'Mara Cameron Adams Victoria De Mare Joshua Hooks Rebekah Voss
USA
USA
You know you’ve got a truly horrible movie when Chris Kattan is the 12th most offensive aspect of your finished product
2023 is young yet but Devolved may be the worst thing I put in my eyeballs this year
It's a take on Lord of the Flies but very light weight, there's an unnecessary voice over, a lot of annoying/cliched characters and yes, a few moments that actually made me chuckle. It really feels like something that could easily be converted into a Disney Channel movie if they took out the drugs, (little bit of) nudity and swearing. Chris Kattan is in it but I have no idea why as he spends most of the movie unconscious.
Not great. Cool
Concept with some
Decent moments but is missing any great moments.
A group of high school students become stranded on an island off the coast of Mexico. B movie with some bikinis.
It's Lord of the Flies but with way more cock jokes. I can see why a lot of folks wouldn't be into this movie, but I thought it delivered exactly what it promised: A low-budget/not-that serious teen comedy that pokes fun of the whole "trapped-on-a-desolate-island" story. It's a pretty low-brow comedy, so if you aren't into silly/kind of dumb humor, give this a pass. But for those that like cheese-ball teen comedies, I think you'll get a chuckle or two out of this (I did for sure).
Here's just one example of the type of humor/dialogue: "Some people say I'm an overly needy skank, but there's nothing wrong with always having a boyfriend, right?"
On top of that, you see Chris Kattan wailing about peaking as the high school quarterback and how the future is shit. I'm sure this has no relation to his post-SNL career.
There are a few interesting ideas buried under the mounds upon mounds of technical ineptitude on display here, but you'd need an excavator to get to them. Failing at literally everything it tries to do, this movie is just an unwatchable mess.
