Romeroland romp...

Rating: 6/10 (13 October 2009)

Having just spent a weekend at a zombiecon (where I saw not one but two more unacknowledged but clearly Romero-inspired no-budget zombie movies), I didn't really expect a whole lot from ZOMBIELAND. Good thing, too. Most of the funniest lines were in the trailers (all but one, by my count) and the cgi were downright underwhelming. Woody Harrelson shoulders the bulk of the acting burden (which ain't exactly a stretch, in this case), mugging alongside what has to be one of the blandest young leading men to ever come down the pike. Bill Murray, who hasn't been in a movie worth watching in decades, becomes the butt of the film's best joke- which you can see coming a mile away. In fact, everything that follows is instantly forgettable. (And the brief scene tagged onto the end of the closing credits isn't even worth waiting for.) The most egregious error is the omission of the number one rule for surviving a zombiepocalypse: you don't have to be faster than a zombie to survive- you just have to be faster than the guy next to you.