Zombieland 020210

Zombieland follows Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus, a nerd with no friends, a few months after the zombie apocalypse. At first he’s alone but soon he’s joined by Woody Harrelson, codenamed: Tallahassee, a trigger happy guy who enjoys killing Zombies for the fun of it. Emma Stone, codenamed: Wichita, a punk girl who was forced to become a mother too early in life and developed some anger issues for it. And Abigail Breslin, codenamed: Little Rock, Wichita’s little sister who became an adult too soon because of the craziness. Wichita is trying to get them to a theme park just to give Little Rock a little taste of the childhood she’s missing out on. Along the way they have to try to learn about how to live with eachother as well as live period.

Okay. Negative reviews are more fun to read and write but I’ll be honest, I loved this movie. I saw it in theaters. Twice. In less than 24 hours. Someone else paid the first time. But he’s a marine and I pay taxes so I kind of paid for it. For those of you who don’t know, the zombie apocalypse has a cult behind it made of people who either want one to happen, or, in extreme cases, think it might. I’m half in the first category. There’s just something guyishly appealing to being surrounded by mindles, feelingless, soulless, but still bloodthirsty creatures that we get to messily kill in large quantities. Blood and gunk everywhere. Ha. Ha. Now, this movie is great because it is really not a horror movie. It’s a comedy. And an homage to the entire genre. The zombie killing is fun and the jokes are perfect. It’s very reminiscent of Ghostbusters in that while the tension does build the jokes stay constant but still don’t detract or distract from what’s going on. The characters are all believable but still funny and work well off of each other.

As I said, I loved this movie so it’ll be hard to find the weak points due to my rose tinted glasses. One main thing is the setting of the story. It takes place after the outbreak so you don’t have the usual overrun by zombie experience. I would like for this to have been a sequel to that setting. Also more frequent and more creative zombie killing would be a plus. A couple of the more serious scenes do drag a little bit but even then, it’s not noticeably bad and is really nitpicky. Considering this is the director’s first real movie it’s totally forgivable.

With all the great jokes, good acting, fun violence and, quite possibly, one of the greatest cameos EVER this movie, from me, gets a solid A. You’ll want to buy it and watch it pretty much every time a friend is dumb enough to let you know he hasn’t seen it.