They did not leave much room for a sequel . . .

Rating: 8/10 (9 February 2013)

. . . which is surprising, given that the novel upon which this is based was adapted in such a fashion as to please the TWILIGHT crowd. The teens at my showing clapped like crazy at the end (thinking back to when I was a teen a few months back, the teens of my day were more sophisticated: if, for instance, director John Hughes or whoever had killed off Voldemort in HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, we would not have been clapping at the end of such a travesty). In fairness to today's teens, maybe WARM BODIES is part of a book series to which the movie has been faithful, and maybe there actually ARE ways in which the characters of R and Julie can be taken further that I just can't think of now. After all, I never heard of this book before seeing the movie, so it could be the HARRY POTTER of the 2010s for all I know. At any rate, WARM BODIES is a somewhat interesting twist on the low-gore sub-genre of Zombie movies, though much of the plot is ripped off from a story called ROMEO & JULIET by William Q. Shakespeare!