Outside of monkeys, pirates, and possibly ninjas, is there anything
more played out than zombies? Once one of the most metaphorically
charged conceits in all of horrordom, the concept of the walking dead
has long been run into the ground by sheer repetition. The image of
Grandma back from the grave will always carry a bit of a charge,
granted, but when even George Romero seems to be running on fumes, it
may be time for the genre to shamble over to the corner and have some
quiet time.
Or, you know, maybe not. The new horror comedy Zombieland somehow rises above the Hot Topic–ization of its subject matter
and becomes an absolute, occasionally surreal hoot. Beginning with the
best credit sequence of the year, director Ruben Fleischer’s film
follows a dweeb (Jesse Eisenberg) whose Warcraft expertise and
lack of social skills serve him well during the zombie apocalypse.
Teaming with Woody Harrelson’s psychotic, garden-
tool-festooned
loner, he heads to Hollywood, location of a rumored zombie-free
zone.
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, previously responsible for the
mock reality show Joe Schmo, clearly came up with the punch
lines first and the connective tissue later, but the loose, episodic
feel serves the material well, with numerous well-orchestrated moments
of splatstick mixing with one or two genuine jolts. (Note for the
phobic: One involves clowns.) It’s difficult to talk much more about
the film without divulging the identity of its super-secret guest star,
who walks in halfway through and evokes one of those cartoons where
Daffy Duck would stop the action and browbeat his producers. Suffice it
to say that the appearance transforms a sloppy, charmingly gooshy flick
into one of the most unexpectedly entertaining movies in recent memory.
Now let it die, already.
“Outside of monkeys, pirates, and possibly ninjas, is there anything more played out than zombies?”
I’d say vampires can be added to that list REAL soon.
If you didn’t mention the “guest star,” I wouldn’t have sought the answer on IMDB. You suck!!
It can’t die until we get a World War Z movie.
@2: Hey, at least he didn’t come out and say who it was, like the author of the review I just got off the top of Google News, like this tool did. And at least Andrew was paying some attention to the film, since that other reviewer called the plot of the movie “one of those meaningless post-apocalyptic road trips to nowhere.” Good review Andrew, and I’m still gonna wait this one out. I’ll save my box office money for the World War Z movie instead.
The holocaust and zombies will never be played out. And finally, with “Dead Snow” we get them together. Finally.
I will never grow tired of zombie movies. Even when the zombie apocalypse actually happens. I’ll be posted up in someone’s hillside mansion in the countryside with Day of the Dead playing on my pilfered 72″ plasma while I pick those fuckers off from my balcony with an AK-47.
Fast zombies bad.
i have adopted “rule #2: double tap” as my new motto in life.
it was a great film!
there is no need for any additional comments.
don’t even think about it.
@7: It was weird; I usually object to fast zombies too, but it worked great here. They had this strange shambling sprint, if that’s possible.
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