Enjoyable

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2014)

A creative and fairly original horror-comedy. It's biggest selling point for me personally is its likable, 3-dimesnsional characters. It avoids the pitfalls of horror-comedies such as having dull characters and cheap laughs. Most teen horror-comedies comprise of an: "Aaah I'm being chased. Oops I fell over" kind of comedy, brought to life by pretty little young people who you really couldn't give a toss about. This is different.
Jesse Eisenberg is fantastic as the shy and awkward guy who is forced to man up, wake up and smell the decaying flesh. Woody is sublime as the tough man with a sad past and a Twinkie obsession (which they somehow didn't make annoying). The 2 other girls are well-acted and there is definitely good chemistry between Jesse and Emma Stone. I don't quite know how the girls ended up in the supermarket (without killing the zombies) or why they didn't abandon Jesse and Woody (the 2nd time) but apart from that the plot is solid.
There are a lot of laughs, and proper laughs; sarcastic comments and comical scenarios. There is enough action to satisfy the bloodthirsty, but not too much which suits those of a weaker stomach. A genuinely enjoyable horror-comedy.