Surprisingly fun and enjoyable zombie romantic/comedy

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2015)

While attempting to help rid the world of zombies, a woman finds that the zombie who saved her from an ambush has changed enough to fall in love with her and they set out to ensure those changes are brought to bear on their war with the undead world.
This one was a pretty enjoyable and ultimately different take on the zombie film. What really holds this one up here is the fact that there's a really enjoyable attempt here to bridge the paranormal teen romance trend with a more traditional type of horror effort here, and its best moments are a combination of the two. While at its core the film is about the star-crossed romance between the zombie and a human, there's the attempts here at humanizing the zombies more than ever before in the genre here by showing them not only capable of simple, rudimentary behavior outside of the mindless need to feed on humans here by showing them gathering in diners, airports and shopping malls with a basic sense of familiarity to their previous lives, giving them crude language skills and other cognizant capabilities that are shown here to grant the romance more legs. While these here manage to make that aspect more believable, there's still a semblance here of this one being a horror film which makes this one still treat the zombies themselves as threats that need to be exterminated, from the opening ambush in the supply room where the whole adventure starts or the different encounters here with the bone-skeleton zombies who are much more of a general threat here by even having the zombies afraid of them as much as the rest of the humans are. As well, the film's big action scene battles here with the full-scale war between the two sides coming to fruition in the baseball stadium makes for a great showing of what the influx of the romance into the proceedings means here as they manage to make it not seem hokey or gimmicky that they've joined up here and come together, and all of this manages to make it quite enjoyable. There's a few small problems here, mostly with the fact that this one doesn't feel all too much like a true horror effort here with the concentration on the romance here, as while it's an integral part of the film it does tend to hold off the attacks possible to still keep the zombies as important figures here off in the background while they're together, and the fact that they don't even try to mount a search parties is a big flaw on its own that would've been a fantastic way to resolve those two issues at once. Likewise, there's also the fact that the skeleton-zombies here look utterly ridiculous with the atrocious CGI that doesn't come close to looking the slightest bit realistic or capable of putting them in the same scene with the rest of the cast here they stick out so badly here. Otherwise, this one was quite fun and much better than expected.
Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.