Vastly overrated tosh for the Facebook generation

Rating: 3/10 (21 October 2009)

I really can't understand why people like this film. I enjoy zombie movies like Shaun, Dawn, and even Braindead. I love comedies like John Landis & John Hughes movies, Superbad etc.
Zombieland was just another annoying, self-consciously quirky addition to the recent glut of movies that seem to be written by, produced by, and made for the washed out, tasteless and cultureless facebook crowd. People like it because they think they should.
The narration and self-conscious humour was excruciatingly flat and self-conscious - at times I found myself yearning to see Fight Club again just to prove to myself that good writing does exist. The zombies were uttlerly boring, the story totally tedious (I'm not just saying that, although there were a few inspired moments the story was just completely boring and really had no point). I found the weak attempts to use the zombies as metaphors for people totally stupid as well. The final line was "if you don't have good friends, well you might as well be a zombie". More fitting, perhaps, would have been "if you enjoy this movie, you might as well be a zombie".