Warm Bodies: A Zombie Love Story

Rating: 8/10 (28 July 2013)

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INTRO:
On a bit of a zombie kick with this and the World War Z reviews, but hey I'm not complaining. Warm bodies is very much a different kind of zombie movie, a love story. I was skeptical of this movie turning out super corny or teen drama-ish, but luckily these stereotypes were avoided.
ACTING:
The film stars a few recognizable faces. Perry is played by James Franco's little brother David Franco. R is played by Nicholas Hoult who was Jack from Jack the Giant Slayer and Beast from X-Men: First Class. Rob Corddry plays M. He has been in various movies from Hot Tub Time Machine, Blades of Glory, and What Happens in Vegas. Julie's father is played by the one and only John Malkovich from Burn After Readng and many other films.
Julie is played by a stunningly, gorgeous Teresa Palmer who was in I am Number Four and The Grudge 2. She looks like a mix between Hayden Panettiere and a blonde Kristen Stewart. Palmer throws in a great acting performance as Julie. She plays a very dynamic character ranging from the serious, broken hearted version of Julie to a the newly love struck Julie at the end of the movie. Julie is a strong willed character throughout the entirety of the film.
Palmer's male lead co-star, Nicholas Hoult, also delivers a fabulous acting performance as R. Playing a member of the undead who is the main character is hard enough. Showing zero emotion is more difficult than it sounds, but the audience watched the slow development of Hoult's character grow throughout the entire movie. Hoult executes this progression effortlessly and seamlessly.
Overall, all the acting is pretty spot on in this movie. The great makeup artistry of the film crew aided this as well as the costume work. The disheveled zombie look was nailed on the head.
TAKEAWAYS:
The uniqueness of the film adds in new dynamics previously never explored in a zombie film. There are numerous laugh out loud moments that keep the audience involved with the awkwardness of a human, zombie relationship. The puns are placed perfectly and the stereotypes are executed just crafty enough to not seem corny yet remain humorous. The premise sounded strange, but Jonathan Levine, the director of 50/50, executed the movie flawlessly to combine a chick-flick (I hate this title because not only do I enjoy most of them and it's just another gender role stereotype that limits societies outlook), love story with a comedic variant of a zombie movie.
I'm putting this on my must see movie list. I highly recommend you see this movie in whatever manner you'd like: Netflix, Redbox, actually buying it, etc... I can say that I'll be watching this movie again sometime soon to introduce it to others.
One of my favorite movies of the year.
RATING:
The film gets 4/5 Chuck Norris thumbs ups.