It's a black-blood-spitting mugging of a movie, but it's also relentlessly funny and innovative, the sort of film that makes you writhe and laugh at the same time.
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10/02/09
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Zombieland (2009)
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Reviews Counted:191
Fresh:170
Rotten:21
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:09-10-2009
Synopsis: A cowardly shut-in named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is forced to join up with a seasoned zombie-slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. As Tallahassee... [More]
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Reviews for Zombieland
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
We won't ruin it. Let's just say that if laughter distinguishes humans from zombies, then you'll know just how human you are after the quartet's visit to a mansion in Los Angeles.
10/02/09
Warts, entrails and all, I had a ball at Zombieland. It’s 81 minutes of my kind of stupid.
10/02/09
Parts of it rank among the funniest moments of the year, but they never last.
10/02/09
...if you weren't foolish enough to have, say, a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs in advance of seeing it, you... will have a lot of fun.
10/02/09
The dialogue in Zombieland is so witty and humorous that even if the zombies were taken out of the picture you would still be left with a highly amusing comedy.
10/02/09
Who isn't entertained by people kicking zombie booty?
10/02/09
Marrying comedy to horror isn't original, but "Zombieland" discovers inventive ways to entertain by placing its emphasis on laughs over legitimate scares.
10/02/09
Hands down the decade's best zombie movie and one of its best comedies. It's what the good, but overpraised, "Shaun of the Dead" sought to be - a rambunctiously funny, relatively weighty loosey-goosey exercise in controlled fear and nervous laughter.
10/02/09
Not as timeless as forebears like Shaun of the Dead.
10/02/09
'Zombieland' may be the first undead road-trip movie. The picture is light and unassuming, but it has a jaunty spirit; it's funny beyond the call of genre and - the cool part, of course - wonderfully disgusting.
10/02/09
It's hard not to be entertained (assuming your definition of entertainment includes exploding skulls and spattered intestines).
10/02/09
I came away wanting more comedy and less gratuitous splatter. Still, you can't dismiss a movie with as many big laughs as this one packs.
10/02/09
Zombieland, with its belching, goo-spewing undead, looks at the scenery of a video game through a fanboy's eyes.
10/02/09
The humor is vicious and the supporting cast is viscous. But underlying the carnage in Zombieland is a sweetly beating heart.
10/02/09
Zombieland is a bloody, gorey, funny, over-the-top, zombie slaughtering piece of perfection.
10/02/09
A grisly comedy about the undead, Zombieland is doomed to be compared to the superior Shaun of the Dead, but it's fun, too.
10/02/09
The undead here could be a rabid group of Garfield toys; it really doesn't matter. What matters is the hyper-crisp, snappy visual pizazz (Fleischer should be tapped for a midlevel superhero flick), the laughs and how well it's all played.
10/02/09
An improbably delicious comedy about a quartet of human survivors crossing an America that's been taken over by ravenous hordes. (There's even a Charlie Chaplin zombie working Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Chinese Theater.)
10/02/09
"Nut up or shut up," is the most quotable of Woody Harrelson's cowboy maxims in the genre mash-up Zombieland, and squeamish moviegoers should take it as gospel.
10/02/09
Latest News for Zombieland
December 01, 2009:
Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland
There are so many movies in the zombie genre that it would seem almost impossible to make something that feels fresh -- yet that's just what Ruben Fleischer has done with his... More...
November 27, 2009:
Weekly Ketchup: Zombieland 2 in 3D?
Hollywood has mostly taken the week off for Thanksgiving, so that they can all enjoy their vegan turduckens down by the pool, no doubt. Nature abhors a vacuum however (even... More...
November 25, 2009:
Woody Harrelson Will Battle Zombies in 3-D 
Ready for a "Zombieland" sequel? According to director Ruben Fleischer, you'll most likely see one soon...and it'll be in 3-D. More...
November 24, 2009:
Five Favorite Films With Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer
Filmmaker Ruben Fleischer is having a very good 2009. The former music video director has seen his debut feature, Zombieland, open at number one at the US box office and take in... More...
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