Review: Zombieland

I hope you are laughing with me! Book Girl and I went to see Zombieland this morning.

First, you need to know that I have never seen a Zombie movie, funny or not, but there evidently is a first time for everything! Last week when we went to the movies, the young girl who took our tickets just raved about this movie and said we would love it. Plus a friend said I'd love it. So, I figured, could I do it? Yep, I could. Maybe.

What's not to like about Woody Harrelson?!!
I like the chemistry between Woody and Jesse. Heck, I like Woody in this film. He is one crazy dude.

Here's the scoop:

Due to a virus being transmitted to one person by contaminated meat from a fast food place, humans are fast becoming Zombies. The undead are running rampant.

A geeky, afraid to live, college student who calls himself Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) because that's where he hopes to go to find out if his family has survived, joins forces with a zombie slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) because that's where he is going, in order to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Along the way they meet up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), two sisters. How they combine forces, sort of, is some of the fun of the movie.

A long cameo by Bill Murray adds to the fun.

First on the agenda
Survive! And Jesse has a list he has compiled to help him do it. So far, so good. Avoid bathrooms, is one. Can you imagine why? (The obligatory bathroom scene-s.)

Double tap, is another. That provides some fun.

Second on the agenda
Find Tallahassee some Twinkies. After all, they may become extinct along with humans.

Check out the perfume!
Funnily, Tallahassee knows his perfume dupes. And in this same scene, scent is splashed around with abandon.

Is it funny?
Yes, and some of it is silly or gross or badly executed (pun intended) on purpose so it is more laughable.

Blood and Guts?
Oh yeah, but it's not red, and the makeup is incredible. We closed our eyes so as not to see the regurgitation.

Likes
I liked the romance between Jesse and Emma. It's good to see her in a more conventional part, if you could call this conventional. That seems like an oxymoron.

I think there will be some cult favorites among the movie's lines. I could see watching this at a midnight showing and knowing all the dialogue like Rocky Horror Picture Show. What will be the new I'm back ?

How it makes you feel
You want to get a fast car and a lot of guns -- and definitely a list of how to survive the new disorder.

OTOH, you leave laughing over some of the silliness, so long as you don't take in all the gore. You definitely root for the good guys/gals.

One good thing, we know zombies are not only the undead, but the unreal, so I don't worry about meeting up with one -- or a dozen!

OTOH, it gives you pause to think, what if you were one of the last 4, seemingly, humans on earth... strange thought, that.

Have you seen it?
What did you think?

Outside of having to watch our way (or not watch, as the cases may be) through the end of the world apocalypse-type movie previews and the paranormal film preview, we enjoyed ourselves.

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

Originally posted 2009-10-19 21:09:33.

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