[IMDB link] [Netflix link] Watched in 720p.
PLOT SUMMARY: Generic zombie plot. Which is fine.
UNCOMFORTABLE PLOT SUMMARY (inspired by this): [highlight for spoilers]→ Teenage girls find people to screw over in a world that has no people left.
PEOPLE: Starring Michael Cera-wannabe Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, The Village, Roger Dodger), Woody Harrelson (Cheers, Natural Born Killers, A Scanner Darkly, Larry Flynt in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Wag The Dog, Indecent Proposal), Emma Stone (The House Bunny, Superbad), and Abigail Breslin (who was 6 years old when she was in Signs).
With small parts by Amber Heard (The Informers, Pineapple Express) and [highlight for spoilers]→ Bill Murray.
QUIRKS: Zombies AND comedy. Where can you go wrong?
VISUALS: Post-zombie-apocalypse bleakness. Not a lot of gore, so this is less visual than many zombie/horror movies.
SOUNDTRACK: Metallica AND Chuck Mangione? Can you really go wrong with that? Throw in some Van Halen, Velvet Underground, Mozart, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Blue Oyster Cult, and Ray Parker Jr., and you’re set.
MORALS: Despite the fact that a post-zombie world requires detaching your emotions from all your loved ones [especially the ones who just tried to eat you], it still remains true that people survive best when depending on each other for help.
BAD STUFF: Not a lot of zombies. Hardly any in the entire movie, for something called “Zombieland”.
CONCLUSION: An awesome zombie-survival-comedy! I wont say that it puts Shaun Of The Dead to shame — but I think it’s pretty much just as good.
RATINGS:
Clint: Netflix: 5/5 stars. IMDB: 9/10. Maybe a low 5-stars and a low 9/10, but a 5/5, 9/10 nonetheless.
Carolyn: Netflix: 5/5 stars. IMDB: 9/10.
The native public rating for this movie is: IMDB: a whopping 8.0/10, Netflix: 4.4/5 stars (Netflix‘s predicted rating for us was 4.6/5 stars).
RECOMMENDATION: A must-see comedy AND a must-see zombie movie.
SIMILAR MOVIES: Shaun Of The Dead, of course. Here’s looking forward to the 3-D sequel, Zombieland 2!
MOVIE QUOTE: Tallahassee: Out west, we hear it’s out east, out east they hear it’s out west. It’s all bullshit. It’s like you’re a penguin at the North Pole hears the South Pole is real nice this time of year.
Columbus: There are no penguins in the North Pole.
Tallahassee: You wanna feel how hard I can punch?
FRIENDS’ RATINGS: Ian really liked it (4/5 stars). Teela thought it was awesome. Chase said it was amazing. Radha said it was a “fun bit of fluff”. Another review full of spoilers.
Mood: meh
Music: KMFDM – Godlike (12” Mix)
October 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM
[...] This is basically what Zombieland would be if you had no comedy. Or zombies. (You get infected people who kill you if they breathe on…))) [...]
December 3, 2010 at 11:57 PM
i liked it, but i thought the two dudes got really dumb after the women show up.
like they ignore all of their rules which enabled them to survive this long.
and the girls just do dumb shit things over and over again, i’m surprised their skills at duping dumb humans worked on zombies that long.
but yeah, zombie comedies are good. more of that.
December 4, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Dudes normally get dumber around women :)
And yea. We need moar. I’m going to watch SPECIAL DEAD soon, which is a zombie movie with retarded zombies. And NIGHT OF THE LIVING DORKS, a German zombie comedy about high school dorks who become zombies to be cooler in school … or something to that effect.
December 20, 2010 at 11:49 AM
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January 14, 2011 at 7:07 AM
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March 3, 2011 at 4:22 PM
[...] an extremely enjoyable story. This movie is more or less perfect. We found this to be up there with Zombieland and Shaun Of The Dead as one of the great zombie comedy movies of all time. I think it’s [...]
October 30, 2011 at 4:24 PM
[...] As far as zombie comedies go, it’s definitely no Zombieland. But it makes up for the lack of comedy with politics and thrills — this is directed and [...]
November 13, 2011 at 7:01 AM
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November 14, 2011 at 7:01 AM
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