Rating of
2.5/4
"Zombieland" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/19/11
A repressed computer geek teams up with a gun toting redneck and a pair of con artists to escape the horde of zombies that now populate the country. Zombieland feels all the world like one of those American remakes of a successful British project, namely Shaun Of The Dead. A team of US marketing "experts" took the idea and threw out any references to British indie music and replaced it with Willie Nelson and screaming metal guitar solos, threw out the slackers and replaced them with the ubiquitous comedy trailer trash and neurotic nerd stereotypes and threw out the old school shambling zombies and replaced them with gore riddled, hyperactive speed freaks that have unfortunately come to replace them. The result is My Name Is Earl with the undead and it's a bit like Zack Snyder's make over of Dawn Of The Dead with jokes. It's certainly very well made and definitely has some great moments, but I'm getting a little tired of the Eisenberg nerd (who is EXACTLY the same in everything he does) and it's so very predictable from beginning to end. Not a bad little diversion, but I felt the same way about the film as a whole as I did about the infamous Bill Murray cameo...is that REALLY what everyone's been going on about all this time?
