The Worst Case Of The Munchies Ever

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2009)

I have to say that when I went to see Zombieland I wasn't quite prepared for what I was getting. When it started out I honestly thought it was a variation on the Charlton Heston science fiction classic, The Omega Man which also dealt with some human survivors of a plague that's left the rest of humanity the victim of some horrid disease.
Instead I got a good natured farce of a film about this same kind of apocalyptic event. The action is narrated by one of four survivors who find themselves thrown together in this case college student Jesse Eisenberg. The other three are Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin. These characters are not referred to by name, merely places either destinations or places of origin.
Harrelson has the best most broadly expansive role in the film. It's a scenery chewing part and Harrelson dines on it the way those zombies devour surviving humans.
I never did get just exactly how this disease spread and why these four should have been so lucky to be spared. Usually those details are important in science fiction, but I got swept up in the general enjoyment that the cast was having with this film that I didn't care after a while.
I agree with other reviewers that this film is destined to become a cult classic. Another future Rocky Horror Picture Show has been born.