ZombieCrap

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2009)

**Spoiler Alert** Over the past few years as Gen-X and Gen-Y tastes have begun to skew ratings on sites like RottenTomatoes and all other film review sites and I occasionally get suckered into going to see a film like Zombieland.
I think some snarky GenXers spent about 5 minutes over their soy lattes coming up with the concept for this film and then had a 5th grade class spend one period writing the script. It was a piece of utter trash with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. When there is the wonderful Shaun of the Dead out there, why would anyone even try to spoof the genre when it was done so expertly already.
Everything that was terrific about Shawn of the Dead is missing from Zombieland. Every single gag in Zombieland has been done before, done better, and to much better effect. The pop-up list was funny once, or twice - but was tedious and stupid as it went on and on throughout the film. The geeky kid as the lead has zero presence and is a blank as an actor. Woody Harrelson merely reprised his role from that bad Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers. The product-placement Hostess Twinkie thing was pathetic. The female actresses were pretty terrible, but with a script like that what chance did they have? The gore of the Zombies wasn't even well done, and the filmmakers couldn't seem to decide between slow dumb zombies and fast mean cunning Zombies (the former is always better and scarier).
What a nothing of film. It wasn't worth even a dollar as a rental. Garbage. And a true testament to how far standards of taste have fallen as Gen-X and Gen-Y vacuousness pervades the zeitgeist of the art world.
Lastly, the Bill Murray cameo was an utter waste. By showing the audience the Warhol painting of Murray prior to seeing him they TOOK AWAY HIS INTRODUCTION. Morons! These filmmakers obviously know nothing about storytelling. If there had been cameo after cameo or the Bill Murray subplot had been more of a central focus of the story this film would have had a chance, but he was just like the creamy filling in a Twinkie - totally without nutrient value.