Zombieland it isn't

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2011)

I've been wanting to see this horror/comedy for a while now and after reading several great reviews for the film even more so but now that I've seen the film I'm pretty disappointed. I was expecting to laugh out loud and though there was some laughter it was too far apart from each other that there was too many gaps with no laughter at all and like Shaun Of The Dead before it the gore and action is the best and most entertaining elements of the film and both I considered overrated because in the end it's not first rate comedy and is more silly, fun and likable in a B-movie sense than being truly tears coming down your face funny. The characters and performances of course are disposable but it seems like they had a ball making this movie and the heart of the movie is of course Tucker and Dale because without them this movie wouldn't work completely but for what it is it was a ball and it's a great film to watch with your friends while drinking some beer but to me it needed better writing and timing of the jokes and references because the jokes just wasn't consistent to me and sure they had a hilarious concept on their hands but the way they delivered it wasn't effective and to be honest they are just a tad too late in the game to deliver this concept to movie theaters because they have a lot of movies with this type of theme out there for this movie to compete against and stand out from, it wasn't a total failure but unfortunately it wasn't a total success either. Overall unless your in high school and below you will probably won't find this funny and if you do probably in the back of your head your thinking that this film is all too familiar and just not fresh anymore but it's all in good fun. Rental. 5.8 out of 10