Tries too hard to make zombie bashing "cool" with little else.

Rating: 5/10 (3 April 2010)

This movie was fun, but I was thinking it would be more of an actual zombie movie. In reality it is a romantic comedy with zombies. It follows the standard romantic comedy formula wherein boy meets girl. Girl hates boy. Boy and/or girl wins the other over and they fall in love. Yawn.
And while Shaun of the Dead was also a romantic comedy, this movie spends all its time being cute and kitschy and does not offer up any moments of real horror (Shaun had quite a few moments) and thus fails in what it purports to be - a zombie movie.
However, the part with Bill Murray almost makes me want to give the movie more stars than it deserves, because it is brilliant. But in the end this movie tries too hard to make zombie bashing "cool" and spends no time at all scaring its audience or making them think.