Zombieland is probably a marmite film, in that you either love how silly it all is, and yet enjoy the wonderfully fleshed out human characters and the horrors they face, with some incredible style, more later, or you have no soul and call it generic trash or a broader and worse Shaun Of The Dead. To the haters I say this. Fuck you.
Ok, this is a review that I will be very passionate about, so if you're reading this and saw the film thinking it sucked, the cross at the top of this window, there's the door, don't let it hit you on the mangina as you exit, fucking idiot, you have no idea what constitutes pure silly awesome entertainment, and somehow Zombieland offer Shoot 'Em Up style insanity of action with Crank's style of visuals, text interacting wonderfully with the environment, and the character development and dialogue from the best indie comedies of the last 20 years.
Zombieland focuses on Jesse Eisenberg, a college kid alone in the US as a zombie outbreak has whittled the population to none, until Woody Harrelson's trigger happy bad boy appears, and from there on in instead of a cumpulsive kid's zombie adventure it's a chalk and cheese road trip, using the towns they want to get to as their names so as not to get too close lest they need to kill one another later, as Harrelson hunts a Twinkie, and Eisenberg his family. That is until sisters Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin come into play, grifting their way to a new car and guns, eventually getting stuck with the male duo as they all head to LA, and to an amusement park that is supposedly zombie free.
In between the dialogue there are zombie attacks, cuts to backstories, one including Amber Heard as a sexy girl next door turned zombie, another with Mike White being conned out of $400, though we see him killed on the bog earlier on, poor guy gets it rough, and some fun stuff, including a 'Zombie Kill Of The Week' moment. Mixing four amazing actors with a fantastic script and some great songs makes this hour and a half film so fulfilling, you get the scares of horror, the gore of zombie films, wonderful wit mixed with some rather crass moments and some epic action.
One genius segment involves going to a certain celebrity's house and staying there, until he appears, allowing Harrelson and Stone to act in scenes from one of his films, hysterical stuff. Yes the Eisenberg virgin trying to find love story has been done to death, hell, he's had at least 4 films where that's his character's goal, but in a zombie film it really makes it more interesting, and I will say this, the film's ending is not what I expected, especially with a Custer's last stand type scenario, but more for a sequel I guess.
Zombieland is a painfully hysterical, genuinely well made film with some solid scary moments, cracking violence, great actors and lots of giggles between the big laughs, a must see, seriously, SEE THIS FRAKKING MOVIE!
10/10
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