Zombieland
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail BreslinDirector: Ruben Fleischer
Year of Release: 2009
My favorite zombie movie is Shaun Of The Dead. It’s funny, scary, and extremely clever. Just a good movie that took the zombie apocalypse and did something entirely original and enjoyable. The makers of Zombieland said they wanted to make a movie on the level of Shaun. And I can see their intentions and how they wanted to make a more comedic, light-hearted but good zombie movie. The problem is that Zombieland is just not enough of anything to make any kind of real impression. It’s not enough of a zombie movie, it’s not enough of a comedy, it’s not enough of an awkward teen romance, it’s just not enough. It winds up being a rather well-done weak movie. The characters are good, the actors are great, but they just don’t have enough to do in this movie and I was honestly just plain bored. This is a zombieland where the zombies are just kind of afterthoughts. They aren’t any real threat, no one is really scared of them, and basically “it’s the end of the world as we know it but I feel fine.”
Overall it was a decent movie. Just not enough to make it great or even really good. And that’s a shame because you can really see the potential for something so much better.
