Fun with the Dead

Zombieland is a horror-comedy on America becoming a land of zombies, and four survivors coming together in the unlikeliest of circumstances. The protagonist, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a self-confessed loner and survivor of many encounters with the zombies through a set of rules that he has made for himself, meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a trigger happy zombie killer on his quest for hometown, Twinkies, and the erasing of the memories of a lost son. They meet two sisters Wichita and Little Rock (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin), whose survival strategy happens to be conning the last few survivors (which includes Columbus and Tallahassee), and whose objective is to find their way to Pacific Playland, an amusement park. Through deepening ties in the face of mistrust, and faux pas’ such as killing Bill Murray by accident, the movie ends with a scene of climactic encounters at the amusement park, and the realization all round that without life’s little pleasures, and people you can call family, perhaps we would rather all be zombies. But this is no morality tale, this is an interesting little movie taking the hackneyed zombie theme and bringing it all together rather nicely. Expect Planet Terror style gutwrenching visuals, and moments of genuine human emotion

13.5/20