After fighting through the crowds, and absurd (no longer college student discounted) ticket prices of $10 a piece, I found myself sitting in an almost completely packed theater, sitting uncomfortably close to the screen. The previews started rolling, most notable being 2012, looks like some insane shit, and John Cusak is in it so it’s probably gonna kick apocalyptic ass. The movie finally started. I’ve been a very long time fan of zombie movies (Dawn of the Dead, hell yea!) and like all other zombie fans, have noticed the change from bloody suspenseful zombie flicks, to comical and sensitive zombie flicks.
This movie was very heavy on showing the audience that zombies are retarded, and unless you are retarded too, surviving may not be as hard as you would think. Just make sure you have have a wide range of automatic weapons, a huge ass vehicle, and are able to hold shelter in Bill Murray’s mansion. The opening credits entertained me right off the bat, showing super slow motion movements of people running from zombies doing whatever kind of fucked up shit they were doing when the zombies started chasing them, all the while playing Metallica in the background.
Woody Harrelson, one of the leading characters, is a foul mouthed, gun toting bad ass who has a strange obsession with finding twinkies in this zombie invested earth and would face any danger in the hopes of sinking his teeth into one of those disgusting chemically engineered sweet semen missiles. His rude and insulting personality brought many funny scenarios and exchanges in the movie.
The other leading character was Jesse Eisenberg. What’s with this dude and movies that involve theme parks? He was just in a film released last year called Adventureland, a mildly entertaining, but overly emotional and boring comedy. If you go see/already have seen Zombieland, you’ll know what i’m talking about with the themeparks. In Zombieland, he played practically the same character; an overly anxious newb whose never really had a girlfriend, is extremely detail oriented (to the point where it’s funny), and doesn’t strike you as the go getter type. I can’t help but be completely reminded of Michael Cera when I see this guy act, but this movie couldn’t have been more appropriate for this type of character with Woody Harrelson’s bad ass disposition.
Overall, I really enjoyed this movie, it’s too often these days that retarded movie ideas go into production, and we find ourselves watching movies with our girlfriends that involve fucking break dancing, or dry comedies about couples. Zombieland’s plot wasn’t too thick (but really how thick could it get for a zombie movie), but it’s comical elements were witty, its celebrity cameo’s were very entertaining and funny, and it hit the mark on the gore factor, exhibiting bloody puss filled sputum coming out of zombies faces and splattered and flattened corpses.
