It is like Twilight but you know it is good.

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2019)

The naughts saw a whole slew of zombie films released-such titles as 28 Days Later and Land of the Dead. Eventually, you started to get more off-beat comedic offerings-i.e. Shaun of the Dead. For my money Warm Bodies, an utterly delightful romantic comedy, is the best thing to come out of this trend. The film does ever you expect a Zombie love story to do. And it does it all so well. The movie is sensuous, scary and above all funny. Its inventions within the zombie form-why the zombies eat brains here is quite clever as a plot device, thematic point, and as genre revision-are all clever. This film is so lovable as a zombie film. It is loveable as teenage angst. It is lovable as romantic comedy.
Much of the film rests on Hoult's star turn. With very few lines of dialog, he captures the audience's heart and runs away with it. He is perfect for the role of R and the character ends up being a iconic teenage heartthrob. He is absolutely hysterical when he needs to be. And he makes an utterly distinct believable character all within the Zombie persona. Probably the most endearing moment of the film is when R takes a moment to get into the practice of walking human. Palmer is no slouch and her Julie completes the R(omeo) and Juliet of the star-crossed lovers.
Levine directs and writes with relish. He manages to sprinkle in just enough genre gore to make this a proper zombie film.