I kissed a zombie

Rating: 6/10 (23 March 2019)

Warm Bodies is a slacker zombie romance film with heart.
It does owe a debt to the Twilight movies as well as Romeo and Juliet. The soundtrack helps a lot as well.
Set in a post apocalyptic America. Human survivors are small in number and live within an enclosed wall of their city.
Grigio (John Malkovich) the militant leader send sends a group out to look for food. This includes his daughter Julie (Teresa Palmer) and her boyfriend Perry.
They are attacked by some zombies that includes R (Nicholas Hoult) who eats Perry's brain and in doing so relives Perry's memories.
R saves Julie and they hide out in a plane. They both seek out fun such as driving a fast car. R finds that he is changing such as being able to dream again. Other zombies in his group also start to change developing emotions and speaking again.
It is only the bonies who are skeletal zombies who are pure evil.
Writer/Director Jonathan Levine does something refreshing and even fun with the zombie genre. Warm Bodies is offbeat, it does not all make sense and it certainly lacks gore.