They're Getting Warmer

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2013)

"Arg!" says the undead.
Actually, the undead aren't supposed to say a lot. And this is coming from someone who grew up on George A. Romero's films and recently, The Walking Dead. Maybe they did in the Return of the Living Dead films – "Brains!" but that's not the norm.
Warm Bodies is a touching and different take on the current zombie craze that's happened over the past few years to decade and it's the first I've seen that puts the viewer (and zombie film lover) in the mind of the living dead. And while it's not a bad thing that this is a comedy (well, romantic comedy,) I would also like to see this from a straight point of view.
I digress. In a movie that's not even rated R – we're all probably becoming pretty immune to zombie movies, we have 'R' who still has a minute left of a brain yet to think consciously after being inadvertently turned into the undead. His thoughts, while both interesting and often hilarious, lead him to true love when he meets the un-undead of his dreams and rescues her.
Once the initial and inevitable back & forth getting used to the idea one of the zombies would want to help the living and not actually eat them, the movie falls more and more into the predictable territory for a film that's set up like this, or the Romeo & Juliet theme, if you will.
Now, the movie has more highs than lows, and that's thanks to the cast, namely Rob Corddry and lead zombie, R (Nicholas Hoult.) And the ending is one of the most original I've seen for a zombie movie and that was thoroughly refreshing.
It's a nice take, has literal laugh out loud moments and enough for both the zombie & chick-flick fans. Recommended!