Not the best zombie comedy around.

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2009)

"Sean of the Dead", which sets the zombie comedy benchmark, is a far funnier movie.
Zombieland, which relies mostly on slapstick zombie violence to get it's laughs, is really just an average teen/coming-of-age comedy with zombies added. The script is nothing special and it's just not that funny. In fact it's frequently self-defeating as in what should have been the funniest scene of the movie (with Bill Murray). Here most the impact of the joke is lost as you wonder "Why the hell did he do that?". With just a few minor tweaks by the scriptwriter or director, that scene could have been a classic.
In the end, the movie kind of feels like a sequel to Adventureland (Jesse Eisenberg's other 2009 movie) but not nearly as well written or executed.