A Zombie Comedy.What's not to love!!!

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2014)

A Zombie Comedy.What's not to love!!! (One Line Summary) ****Spoiler Alert***** As a precaution I thought I would throw out the spoiler alert. It would be hard not to with this film, although the previews took care of most of the spoiling for us. How could you not give a great review of this film? First, it is a comedy and the main characters, Woody Harrelson (Tallahassee) and Jesse Eisenberg (Columbus) make for a big film almost "Odd Couple" comedic duo. The other quasi main characters are Emma Stone as Wichita and Abigail Breslin as Little Rock. Wichita and Little Rock, albeit important to the films plot, don't hold a candle to the mojo that Tallahassee and Columbus throw down. The theme, although kind of multi-layered is well pretty much killing zombies. From the very start of the film to the very end, there is complete zombie carnage and killing. Columbus, with invisible voice over tells the story if you will of how he got to the point of where the movie is based, which is basically in a zombie filled world all alone. All alone that is until he stumbles onto Tallahassee on an abandoned car filled highway (left over's from the apocalypse). While he is dragging a roller equipped suitcase walking down the highway, Tallahassee comes driving along in a Zombie killing machine (Cadillac Escalade). After a few minute "stand-off" Columbus hops into Tallahassee's caddy and they become good friends shortly thereafter and remain so till the movies end. While stopping at a grocery store on the search for the Holy Grail (Tallahassee's Twinkies), they are duped by the other main characters Wichita and Little Rock who took there ride and weapons. The four hook up later and kind of became a make shift family as the film plays out. After some rough bumps in the road, no pun intended, okay there is a pun intended, (the rough bumps being a few zombies being run over) the four characters try to make their way to a theme park, as if it is a zombie killing knock-off of the movie Vacation. This is a funny movie with the total opposite styles of Columbus and Tallahassee, mixed in with some badass zombie killing comedic action. Nothing serious about this film, aside from the short snippet of Columbus' voice over telling the story of Tallahassee losing his son previously, but this only helps explain his anger towards the zombies and being really good at killing them. I have to say this film reminds me of an American version of Shaun of the Dead, with less characters, and less of a plot, and of course less the British accents. The American add being some gas guzzling SUV's and an hummer, some cowboy boots, and a zombie that catches a home-run style baseball swing with a banjo to the head. The film has a happy ending and there are a lot of dead zombies, with some pretty amazingly funny gruesome effects. What's not to love? The one technique I liked was Columbus's voice over as he kind of told the history of everything and broke down his rules (the ones to keep him from getting killed by the zombies) as the action played out on the screen. This story telling if you will saved time and made room for more action packed zombie killing. It also helped you (the viewer) connect with Columbus on a personal level, which helps you root for this nerdy kid to kick some zombie ass and get the girl in the end. How is this not on the cult classic list yet?