Twilight with zombies

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2015)

Yeah, WARM BODIES is a mess, and unlikely to thrill the viewer unless they're an American teenager, because this film is squarely aimed at the TWILIGHT market. In fact it's pretty much TWILIGHT with zombies instead of vampires, and it's a film that serves to thrust post-modern mindless slacker humour down the throat of the viewer at every opportunity. Needless to say that I hated every moment, and sitting through it was a chore indeed.
The unlikeable Nicholas Hoult plays 'R', one of many zombies in a post-apocalyptic world, who inherits the memory and emotion of a random jock guy when he eats his brain. He ends up falling in love with the guy's girlfriend, a blonde bimbo type whose name I can't even recall. John Malkovich co-stars as the girl's tough dad and you feel sorry for him being mired in such an outing.
The plot is essentially Romeo and Juliet, but with lots of laughs and undead jokes along the way. There's some supernatural stuff thrown in too, like a twist involving the whole zombie epidemic thing which I didn't much care for. Plus, with the zombies being good guys for once, there has to be a breed of super-zombie as the real villain, which is all nonsensical. Anyway I was never going to love this film as it's the sort of soft, mainstream nonsense I automatically hate; your mileage may vary.