Zombieland (2009)

Release Date: Friday October 2, 2009 Genre: Comedy Running Time: 88 min.Director: Ruben Fleischer Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Amber Heard

Here’s a film I really didn’t want to go see but a friend of mine did and because I missed his birthday party I took him to see Zombieland. Now, he didn’t know I didn’t want to see it and I wasn’t about to tell him.  In the end I was really glad I went to see this movie as it proved to be really funny and made me jump in my seat several times.  There are some great lines in it and the cameo by Bill Murray is just amazing.  Just an aside, when I watch men like Bill Murray perform I wonder to myself (and often out loud) "Why don’t they make’em like that anymore?  Why can’t I meet a man like that?" …then I proceed to cry helplessly damning the saints as I curse the skies.  Okay, maybe I don’t go quite that far…but I’m sure you know what I mean when I say what I say or write what I write as you read what you read.  Nonetheless, Ruben Fleischer was able to win me over with this killer soundtrack that paved the wave for some super performances by some seriously talented players.

Jesse Eisenberg really knocks this one out of the part as an overly uptight and obsessive compulsive survivalist in the apocalyptic times of Zombieland. Woody Harrelson plays the Id incarnate as the ultimate zombie killer with out remorse in this hell on earth.  The two sisters played by Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone are a priceless bunch of tricksters sticking together to get to an amusement park so that the younger of the two can finally "be a kid".  This unlikely quartette forms some semblance of a nuclear family while fighting zombies and roughing it out while on the hunt for Twinkies…you’ll have to watch to catch that bit.  What would you do for a taste of humanity when humans is what the world is short on?  Enjoy the simple things is a lesson for all–not just those in Zombieland. 

I really enjoyed this picture because of its simple nature and wonderful executing.  It’s a combination of cinema of the absurd and a good old fashioned shoot’em up action flick with a hint of horror.  I highly recommend it as it will give you a peculiar warm and fuzzy feeling as you leave the cinema.  Just don’t confess you didn’t want to see it to begin with…you might feel like a bit of a jack ass…I know I did!

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