Zombieland is good. Really good. Better than the previews make it out to be in fact. The story is the same as most post-zombie apocalypse movies. A plague has turned most of the population into ravenous, cannibalistic killers with insatiable appetite for the living. Nothing new there. I mean, let's be honest, the formula is a sound one and takes little explanation. But what falls outside the confines of the formula are the characters and how they react to the world they find themselves in. It's made quite clear from the onset that most of humanity is dead and of the four main characters we meet (and one awesome cameo), all seem to think they're the last of the living. They've lived with zombies as a reality for so long that they've all gotten used to life with them, and though they still fear the undead, they don't have any qualms about venturing out into world. What we get as a result are 80 minutes packed with dark, dark humor with plenty of gore mixed in for good measure. And the love story feels natural (Woody Harrelson as a badass redneck zombie killer seems to be the role he was born to play). Everything about this move just works.
Especially the celebrity cameo. Really, worth the price of admission alone, that.
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I second this! I loved this movie, it was just so much fun.
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