OMG this is some funny a$$ sh*t!

Rating: 8/10 (17 September 2010)

Saw it in the movies. Loved it. Bought the DVD. Just watched it => felt obliged to spend my 2 cents on it. I think this along with the original "Dawn if the dead" are two of the best zombie movies ever, period: DotD delivers the message with blood n guts, ZL delivers the laughs with blood and guts... and some. On the surface, this is like "Hatchet" with Zombies with some of that post-Scream self-aware. But I'm also willing to claim that under the surface, there's more: I would go so far as to say that this is like both a parody and a right-on-the-spot take on the post generation-X comedies... a Kevin Smith movie, "Dazed and confused"... or perhaps, most fittingly, "Say anything" with zombies. Jesse Eisenberg is perfectly cast as "Columbus", a geek who gets a rude awakening into a world suddenly overrun by flesh-eating corpses. Woody Harrelson is perfectly cast as a trigger-happy mentor who picks Columbus as his sidekick. And Emma Stone... perfectly cast, playing the damsel in distress/ femme fetale along with... (sorry. I just got lost in her reindeer-in-the-spotlight eyes. Did I mention she's perfectly cast?) with an okay Abigail Breslin on her tow. That's about all you need to know. Won't spoil you the fun, but all I can tell you that there's plenty of it: I'm an 34 year-old Finn with a master's degree, and I laughed my ass off along with all the 18-year-olds in the crowd. "Zombieland" instantly got into one of my top-five experiences in a movie theatre. Can't wait for the sequel!