It's alright...

Rating: 6/10 (17 October 2009)

Zombieland's main strength is that it toys with something that at least I haven't seen in a zombie movie before - the morbid fantasy of running around amidst an apocalyptic world, killing zombies. Surely many others were satisfied by this in and of itself, I know I certainly was. Despite this, it's still ultimately forgettable.
The worst part was the obvious and painfully bad Michael Cera impersonation that Jesse Eisenberg does; I can't help but wonder why they didn't just get Michael Cera himself, it doesn't seem like he's got a whole lot going on right now. His rules too, got to be very irritating. Yeah, you have a list of rules, cool... we already saw them. Bringing them up again and again (presumably for comedic effect) just got annoying after a while.
The girls were... eh. Nothing good, nothing bad. Emma Stone was hot, and that's about it.
Woody Harrelson is unsurprisingly the movie's saving grace. He's got great one liners, and his charisma alone carried the movie for me. Bill Murray's cameo was cool too, though slightly over-hyped.
I liked the music a lot, and the pacing was flawless; I didn't like most of the characters, and there were a lot of dumb jokes, but I was never bored. A lot of people complained about the running zombies, which have become kind of popular as of late, but that's really not THAT big of a deal. Overall it's a passable blend of action and comedy, though it doesn't hold a candle to Shaun of the Dead in my mind. I can honestly say that I did like it, but it's too flawed to be truly memorable.