Simply awesome!

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2009)

Are you sick of all the hype surrounding "Twilight"? Are you hankering for a return to proper monster movies, where the monsters want to kill humans rather than fall in love with them? Well then, you'll love the awesome "Zombieland".
It's hilarious (though people looking for a scare may be disappointed that it leans more towards comedy than horror), has plenty of gore and lots of cool zombie-slaying set pieces. Better yet, a sequel's been scheduled for 2011.
The story is simple enough: modern-day America is a zombie-infested wasteland. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is seemingly the only 'normal' human left. Despite his scrawny appearance, he survives through a series of self-made rules, illustrated in a funny montage. On the way to see his parents, Columbus meets Tallahassee (a kick-arse Woody Harrelson, channelling his inner action hero), a redneck vigilante who's taken the zombie situation into his own hands with a big car, big guns and anything else he can get hold of. The combination of Columbus-Tallahassee harks back to the best buddy cop movies – Columbus is the uptight nerd, Tallahassee is both the main hero and the comic relief (he has the funniest lines in the film). They meet Wichita ("Superbad's" Emma Stone) and her 12-year-old sister Little Rock (an all grown-up Abigial Breslin). Like Columbus and Tallahassee, they've found a way to survive by sticking together. From here the film treads a conventional path: the foursome team up, Tallahassee's secret motivation is discovered and there's a romantic sub-plot between Columbus and Wichita.
Don't be put off though, as this complements all the inventive zombie slaying, with plenty of blood splatter on the screen as the zombies are killed with an array of cool weapons (like garden shears). There's plenty of gore too: blood and goo oozes from the zombies' mouths as they feast on their victims out in the open, devouring the vital organs and drinking the juice from their bones. Throw in a brilliantly self-deprecating cameo from Bill Murray and you have a sure-fire recipe for awesomeness, a must see for anyone who love zombie, comedy-horror or action films in general.