Zombieland

R 7.5
2009 1 hr 28 min Horror , Comedy

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

  • Cast:
    Jesse Eisenberg , Woody Harrelson , Emma Stone , Abigail Breslin , Amber Heard , Bill Murray , Derek Graf

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Reviews

Solemplex
2009/10/08

To me, this movie is perfection.

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GamerTab
2009/10/09

That was an excellent one.

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Stometer
2009/10/10

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Protraph
2009/10/11

Lack of good storyline.

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a_chinn
2009/10/12

I remember loving this film when it first same out, but it didn't hold up quite as well upon rewatching it. It's still good, but zombie films are pretty played out and the film doesn't offer anything unique except for some decent comedy. Co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick would go on to write the highly successful "Deadpool," which I actually haven't seen but hear took the highly played out superhero film and reinvigorated it by bringing self referential humor while also delivering loads of ultra-violence. Wes Craven's "Scream" did the same thing when slasher films were becoming very routine and very played out. When "Zombieland" came out, zombies were not quite to the point where the living dead had become tiresome, so the film's adherence to the conventions of this horror sub-genre were perfectly acceptable, especially since they were executed with style, with an A-list cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin), and with better production values than it's lower budgeted contemporaries. However, watching the film now, it's unoriginal take on the zombie film sub-genre feels pretty tired this time around. This film was a major studio production of what's usually a B-level budgeted genre film. The story, such as it is, is basically a road movie with some dueling comedic duos. The main pair is Eisenberg and Harrelson. Eisenberg is the relatable everyman. He's who we all would actually be during a zombie apocalypse. Harrelson, on the other hand, is complete id, and is who anyone who's ever ruminated about what they'd be like during a zombie apocalypse imagined themselves as being. Harrelson is supremely confident and macho, driving big trucks, carrying big guns, and blowing stuff up real good. These two are repeatedly outwitted by con artist sisters Stone and Breslin, who leave them high and dry on multiple occasions, that is until the two reach an uneasy alliance on a quest to drive across the country in hopes of reaching a zombie-free amusement park in California. In the film's favor, the film is populated with four entertaining and likable lead characters. Also, the road trip premiss allows for an entertaining series of episodic events. The film also benefits form it's studio support, which allows for better special effects, a better cast, a more talented of director in Ruben Fleischer, and an overall a bigger scale and better production for their version of a zombie apocalypse. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen the film, but there's a hilarious cameo that on it's own earns "Zombieland" an extra star in it's rating. On the downside, I did not care for the frequent breaking of the third wall, where Eisenberg directly talks to the audience, or when the film makes a random cutaway to the "Zombie Kill of the Week." Also, the film doesn't present any zombie scenarios that seem all that original or interesting, which wasn't all that bad when this film came out because there hand't been quite as many quality living dead films at this point in time, so anything well produced was exciting and good, but now that we live in an oversaturate undead media environment, you need something original like "Dead Set" or "The Cured" or the long-form storytelling of "The Walking Dead" to stand apart from what's become pretty familiar stories and scenarios. Still, despite the film's seeming unoriginality in story and situations, the actors and characters are quite likable, the film's comedy for the most part works, and the better than average production values make this zombie film well worth watching.

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tbills2
2009/10/13

Rule #1 MUST WATCH ZOMBIELANDRule #2 MUST NEVER WATCH ZOMBIELAND AGAIN FOR LIKE ANOTHER NEARLY 10 YEARS LATER OR SORule #3 MUST WATCH & ENJOY ZOMBIELAND NOW AGAIN FOR THE 2ND TIME LIKE ANOTHER NEARLY 10 YEARS LATER OR SO & LAUGH AT IT FOR ITS MILD AMUSEMENT & ITS ZOMBIE KILLS OF THE WEEK & FOR NERVOUS JESSE & FOR FUNNY WOODY & HIS LOVE FOR TWINKIES & ITS PATHETIC LOOKING ZOMBIES WHO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE IN BLOODY RED MAKEUP WHO I'D JUST KICK IN THE MOUTH WITH MY SHOE WHO'D POSE NO REAL THREAT TO BITE ME AT ALL EXCEPT FOR THAT 1 CRAZY LOOKING BIKINI WEARING ZOMBIE CHICK WHO'S CHASING THAT DUDE IN THE BEGINNING AND LOL @ THE BILL MURRAY PART & ALSO & ALSO MOST IMPORTANTLY APPRECIATE ZOMBIELAND FOR THE LOVELY & THE YOUNG EMMA STONE'S EPIC BEAUTY AS I GAZE UPON HER & HER SEXY ASS & CUTE ABIGAIL FOR THE 2ND TIMERule #4 WRITE A ZOMBIELAND REVIEW ON IMDbcheck & check & check & check

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johnnyboyz
2009/10/14

"Zombieland" is a post-modern explosion of all things pop-culture and something else. I lost count of the number of references, both visual and oral, I recognised from films and times gone by; of the number of homages to things which have peppered not only my film-watching life thus far, but life generally. Present is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Caddyshack"; George A. Romero; Ennio Morricone; "Babe"; Willy Nelson and, amongst other things, some film from the 1980's starring Bill Murray about what appear to be four exorcists...The film is, ultimately, a horror film to be enjoyed most by people who, I think, do not especially like horror films; a film whose terror, sense of hopelessness, violence and gore is strangely distilled through a filter of comedy and chaos. It is as if there is someone watching the film with you holding your hand, constantly reminding you that everything will be OK in the end. The burning question is as to whether films such as these (post-modern rollercoasters of jokes and references to the bulwark of the last 50 years of mainstream entertainment, which just happens to be a generic zombie virus infestation flick at the same time) are at all good for cinema. In my opinion, they are not.Jesse Eisenberg plays a nerdy, sexually frustrated loner who's studying at a university in Texas and who, through his complete lack of a social life and difficulties with his extended family, misses out entirely on the zombie apocalypse. Mortified, in his own unique way, upon discovering the end of the world, and coming to observe a strict set of survival rules, he takes it on himself to travel back to Ohio to see if anything remains of his family and hometown. This, he surmises, will be enough to win his parents' respect should they still be alive, who looked down on him for not yet acquiring a girlfriend. Along the way, complications arise in the form of a cocksure cowboy played by Woody Harrelson - somebody whose approach is very different to Eisenberg's and who is desperate, besides everything else, to get his hands on a Twinkie. They are later joined by a pair of con-artist played by Emma Stone and her twelve year old sister, played by Abigail Breslin. Stone forces her sister to live to a similarly strict set of regulations, that they should trust no one and assume that, from now on, it is just the two of them against the world. The road trip makes for a mostly uninteresting, although occasionally funny, adventure which mutates into a romance between the Eisenberg and Stone characters and their being forced into revising predetermined outlooks on other people and the world around them. The film is not, however, kept on enough of a leash for it to really be particularly special. A sense of desperation is lacking. Many films tackling this premise, from "Night of the Living Dead" and "28 Days Later" to "The Road" and "Shaun of the Dead", are afforded degrees of chaos and disorder as civilisation has been destroyed and characters in the film are relegated to making it up as they go along. But "Zombieland" lacks peril, and it distils the horror of its characters' predicament through the brashness of Harrelson's character who doesn't appear frightened of anything. If he isn't scared, why should WE be? The shallowness of most of it is exposed near the midway point when, upon learning of his hometown's annihilation, Eisenberg's void existence in the universe is filled by his making it his quest to bed Emma Stone's character. The film, you will have no doubt worked out, and despite providing its characters with a Tarkovsky-esque palette upon which to contemplate the meaning of life and man's place in the universe as they live through the apocalypse, is not especially deep...Eventually, director Ruben Fleischer forces his leads to mutate, not into the un-dead, but certainly into people more reminiscent of human-beings and less shut off from stringent habits. A hermit and a loner at university, Eisenberg learns lessons about opening up to others and being more sociable, while Stone realises that there might be more to this post-apocalyptic world than merely thieving from other people and condensing the rest of the wild world to her and her sister. Irrespective, the character narrative is heavy-going and simplistic - the film is more interested in flashes of popular culture; zombie-gore and a particularly bizarre sequence whereby everyone holes up in a Los Angeles mansion for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than for the fact it belongs to whom it does.In its barest form, the film is a kinetic series of colourful splatter sequences enabling the meek Jesse Eisenberg and the self-assured Woody Harrelson to smash up a number of zombies in a variety of different ways. Most audiences have taken to this, but two or three haven't - one critic reaches the firm conclusion that the film has one goal: "...to entertain the pants off of you!" and recommends the film, whereas another deduces a similar train of thought in dismissing it as "...an okay DVD rental choice but (nothing) beyond that" and gives it a lower rating. It would be wrong to label the film in any way dull, but it is certainly lacking in substance to back up its ultra-assertive style.

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Ersbel Oraph
2009/10/15

This movie is amusing. Not amusing like ha-ha, as the jokes are quite far apart, but the story remains pleasing and somehow comic. The zombie theme is well treated and I liked the way the rules are integrated into the story. Maybe it would have getting boring, but I was hoping for more rule inserts, as after the first part they are becoming rather scarce.Loved the theme park concept and that made it better for the rather slow overall action.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

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