Day 30: Zombieland.

Day 30: Zombieland (2009, Dir. Ruben Fleischer)

Another day another blog about Zombie’s, well today it’s last year's ace hit comedy Zombieland!

The comedy comes pretty thick and fast throughout this feature; plus there is the making a classic comedy character in the making with Woody Harrelson’s Tallahasse delivering some fantastic post apocalyptic one liners. The film holds its pace and mild threat of the oncoming undead which keeps the films comedy concept from going stale whilst providing a fair few gory splatters along the way. Zombies are never really shown as a horrific menace but more of an annoying obstacle and this is probably for the best as to not get bogged down in a dreary gore fest and instead deliver some truly amusing zombie kills. Initially the films “rules” seemed a bit gimmicky, but once you get in on the joke its quite fun to guess where the next rule will pop up. Once again in one of my review’s I have to give an honourable mention to the one and only Bill Murray, and once you’ve seen the film you’ll know why.

Of course it’s hard not to compare this to 2005’s fantastic zom-rom-com Shaun of the Dead. In fact any zombie comedy, or even any contemporary zombie movie is going to have to go quite a way to compete with this giant cult classic from director Edgar Wright. Fortunately the approach Zombieland takes to comedy is completely different and works all the better for it.

It’s genuinely hard not to enjoy this movie, it never feels as though its dragging or loosing its comedic punch, whilst perhaps not revolutionary or effective as Shaun it is still fresh and thrilling, not to mention relentlessly funny and a true joy to watch.

8/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/

Extra: Favourite Zombie films anyone?