Rom-zom-com with more rom than zom-com

Rating: 9/10 (18 May 2013)

I thought it was great, a very sweet touching and gently amusing movie - although, at it's (undead) heart this movie is a romance first and foremost. There's a bit of 'horror' (that would be the zombies and their bony frenemies) and a bit of comedy (if you count the deadpan - no pun - monologues from R and a few nice one liners from M) but there's a whole lot more romance. I think many viewers mistook the movie to be more horror/comic than it actually aspired to be.
I really enjoyed it - because I'm one of those people with a guilty pleasure that is romantic comedy - and found the lead actors very convincing. R's self musings were wonderfully written and I also liked that Julie wasn't the kind of girl that inevitably falls over, while wearing underclothes, during a chase scene or screamed every 5 minutes for no discernible reason. Overall is it clichéd? Sure - but who cares? It was a cool take on an old theme, with a couple of chuckles and nice undead makeups thrown in.