Zombieland

Movie: Zombieland

Main Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin

MPAA Rating: R

Passionate Expressions: Yes, there are a lot of very passionate ways of asking the undead not to eat you.

Useless Vulgar Language: There was and I think 99% of it was from Woody Harrelson.

Sex in a Good Light: Sort of. There was a first kiss that I thought was shown well…

Sex in a Bad Light: ... However, they were implying in the film that it would go further just cause it could. Also, there is a stripper zombie, there is a lot going on the screen when she appears and if you look away for a few seconds you won’t have to see her and you won’t miss anything.

Manly Violence: Believe it or not, there was.

Action Violence: Most of the movie. A lot of pointless zombie violence (yes, there is such a thing as non-pointless zombie violence) is moved to the action violence category because it was done with humor as the intention. It is a comedy after all.

Pointless Violence: A lot more of this then most zombie movies in vivid and dramatic colors.

Manly Rating: A

Scorecard
Cinematography: B
Visual Effects: A
Sound/Score: B
Story: A
Acting: A+

Food to Watch With: Twinkies (don’t even think of reaching for a Ding-dong or Ho-Ho)

Plot Synopsis: Four people become friends in a world over-run by zombies.

Review: Ahhhh, the zombie world. Why does it fascinate so. I’m going to give you my personal opinion of zombie movies and zombies in general and then you can weigh your own opinion against that and take what you will from this review. I like the idea of zombies. I like the idea of being alone on the planet and having to survive like it was back in the stone age, also, I view zombies as people who are already dead, so I would not be fighting people, I would just be fighting walking disease puppets. I like some zombie books like “World War Z” and “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” but the filmed world is a bit different. When I was small my brother and I stayed up late once (we weren’t supposed to) watching TV and we happened to watch an 1980’s Zombie movie. I don’t remember what it was, and it made me sick to my stomach for three days. Well, it also could have been the half-gallon of ice-cream and twenty cookies I ate but I think it was the movie. It was too much, it was too disgusting; what can I say, I don’t like watching people eat other people. The older types of zombie movies were nothing but that, very long scenes of people eating people, it makes me queasy now just thinking about it. Then, during the late 90’s a change started to happen. Filmmakers started changing how they made zombie movies. They made the zombies more of a plot driver then the plot itself. From Resident Evil, to 28 Days Later, the zombies were the motivations for the protagonist and the long drawn out human consumption scenes were replaced by quicker, more action violence oriented scenes and as a consequence I could watch most of the movie without covering my eyes. Then, Zombies started to take a turn to the Action/comedy role and I have enjoyed that role much better. So like I said, use all that to determine how I am rating this movie. Overall I thought the movie was one of the funniest movies of the decade. It was a little gratuitous in violence and gore and there were some scenes I looked away from but the movie had a lot of heart, some great acting, and it was laugh out loud funny. I loved it and I don’t know if they will ever be able to produce another zombie movie that is better.

Life Lessons: Woody Harrelson is a kick-butt zombie killer.

Summary: Very funny movie that is boarder line on the gore.

Would I Watch This Again: Yes, but I would be careful who I watched it with and I need breaks in between watching it to give my stomach time to stabilize.