Girl power... Lara Croft in Wonderland.

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2010)

Rule 25: don't make the zombies run, especially in a zombie comedy. They're just not as much fun that way.
There are only a handful of gags, and they induce mild chuckling, the rest is predictable ha-ha silly/funny-zombie fare. The single most idiotic aspect of ZL is the idea that two teeny-boppers would: a) con the few survivors they meet in the wasteland that is Zombieworld, instead of teaming up with them, and b) that they would actually have the brains to do it.
WHY exactly would they or any other half-way intelligent survivor want to con anyone? The stores are open 0-24, absolutely everything is for free, so what possible reason would there be to steal from the only few people who stayed alive? On one hand the two moronic teens are described/defined as "smart, cunning girls", but what intelligent person would try to make human enemies what with the zombie threat that is all around them... Besides, I don't see how they could have survived more than a minute when one considers the poor judgment they display when they decide that it's a great idea to start up the amusement park... So they're idiot savants or what? Autistic?
Rule 356: don't make the characters behave dumber than the zombies; it's neither logical nor funny.
Comedy works only when there is a trace, a hint of realism behind it. The idea that a pair of sisters would have the need to STEAL from the handful of remaining survivors - when they can take anything they want whenever they need it - is too asinine even for a dumb zombie comedy. If the makers of this forgettable tripe wanted unapologetic stupidity they should have gone all-out, i.e. "Police Academy" style. If you're going to shove into our faces cretinous characters and write infantile plot-twists, you might as well go all the way, and make money off the low-brow viewers who number in their tens of millions these days...
They tried to justify the poor logic of the girls' actions by portraying them as "hard-to-trust kids". What flimsy argumentation. What is this, Oprah, suddenly? "I've got trust issues, ya know..." As I said, why even try to explain these characters' motives - as was done on several occasions (as if I could be made to care about these cardboard characters) - when you can go for all-out Pauly Shore "hilarity". If you're gonna be an imbecile you might as well be gung-ho about it and do a zero-IQ farce.
Rule 10,380: feature more zombies in a zombie film.
But whatever little the movie had going for it was lost in the Bill Murray segment. The idea of having the four idiots go to a movie star's mansion was a good one, but it was utterly ruined with another idiotic/unfunny - because unrealistic - plot-twist: Bill wants to play a prank on the nerd, and VERY predictably gets killed. Woody and Stone (the latter who is supposed to be "intelligent", remember) fail to realize that he will probably get shot at by Eisenberg/Cera. (Stupid and predictable: a safe bet to not make me laugh.)
The movie hits its absolute low point - and I mean minus 273 Celsius - when Bill talks with a huge open chest wound as if he were in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Or are we suddenly in a Python sketch? Yet, only minutes later, what follows this dull, surreal scene is an actual romantic(!)/semi-serious moment between Stone and nerd-boy. Who the hell cares!
Zero thought has been put into the writing of this crap, and it shows, every five minutes. Pity, because the director's skills aren't negligible and the cast is good. Harelson is great, but even he cannot squeeze out more than a few drops from this drained orange. Emma is gorgeous, so that helps a bit too. Yet again it's the script that is Hollywood's undoing.
This is the ideal movie for people who have never seen a zombie film, let alone a zombie comedy. In their wide-eyed inexperience, they probably gape at this, their jaws dropping all the way to their drool-stained smelly popcorn, thinking "wow!". To them - to quote Bill Murray from "Groundhog's Day" - I say: "Morons!... Your bus is leaving!"