The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Solitary Man), Woody Harrelson (The Messanger, The People vs Larry Flint), Emma Stone (Easy A, Superbad), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Signs), Bill Murry (Ghost Busters, Caddyshack).
The plot is pretty basic the four try to make it to a "safe zone" in an amusement park. Killing zombies as they go, and they happen to kill a non zombie Murry. Thks movie is campy but it works. The makers did not try to make it too diffrent things. There are a few points where they try to make it a little bit deep by focusing on the bond of the four. They dont go over board with that and do a good job of making it fun with just enough of the bond they form. The movie Galexy Quest is a movie that does a bad job of combining camp and a deeper emotional bonds. This movie figures out how to ballance the two perfectly.
The movie is narrated by Eisenberg. He does a good job as the nerdy guy but also has a list of rules to get through Zombieland. Harrelson does a goodjob as the enfourcer. Stone and Breslin are good as sisters who make it through pre and post Zombieland with scams.
I rated this movie as a B-. The sepical effects for the zombies eating people are pretty good but if that bothers you skip the movie. With most movies you have to have a suspension of disbelief (sp). The supermarket scene is the only scene that I found it hard to do that. Harrelson throw away his weapons after killing one zombie with it. That I thought was out of character for the movie.
The best line of the movie is when they are saying what was the best part of Zombieland. Eisenberg responce is now you dont have to deal with Facebook updates that you just dont care about. I just thought it funny that what I assume is his next role was as Zuckerberg.
If you want to a ggod campy movie with a good ballance of something just a little bit deeper stream this movie.
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