Sometimes the gonzo antics work, though the piles of bodies at the end did make me flash on the Nazi extermination camps, which, you know, really killed the joke, too. Despite its throwaway jokes, a hint of romance and various ridiculous bits of business, some involving Twinkies, the movie is strictly a compendium of all the ways to off zombies, which can be downed with guns, of course, as well as baseball bats, gardening tools, a toilet-bowl lid, even a piano. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass.

The real point and, depending on your blood lust, the pleasure of “Zombieland” is its appetite for destruction. Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Romero always has politics on his mind, the filmmakers here Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote and Ruben Fleischer directed are strictly in it to bust guts (and heads).Īlthough Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone and a modestly funny Bill Murray breeze through, they’re just icing.

Romero in his sanguinary 1968 masterwork, “Night of the Living Dead”: the undead chase after the semi-alive. Like most zombie flicks, this addition to an already overstuffed, undernourished subgenre more or less follows the gore-slicked path charted by George A. Chomp chomp, spew spew go the zippy ghouls in “Zombieland,” a minor diversion dripping in splatter and groaning with self-amusement. Released OctoRuntime 88 mins Director Ruben Fleischer Writers Paul Wernick + 1 more, Rhett Reese.

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