What every comedy these days should look at for inspiration

Rating: 8/10 (2 October 2009)

Before my review, me let just get it out of the way
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
There I said it, because frankly, every review I have read so far about Zombieland has to have a reference to Shaun of the Dead somehow.
Many do compare this movie to Shaun of the Dead. And while the two movies share the same theme of zombies and comedy, they take the idea of the zombie genre very, very, VERY differently.
This movie starts out with Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenburg, who is afraid of everything and is pretty much a wimp. Frankly, being in a zombie infested world is still not a good enough reason for Jesse Eisenburg to grow a pair in a movie. Colombus is trying to get back hometown, but then comes across Tallahassee, played by Woody Harleson, who is the very opposite of Columbus. He is not afraid to kill zombies with whatever he has on him whether it is a bat, gun, clippers, or a banjo. The two then comes across Little Rock and Wichita, two girls who have survived the zombie apocalypse not just because of their gun-ho nature, but because of trickery and deceitfulness. And at that point, the rest of the movies is just zombie slaughter after zombie slaughter.
FYI, the reason for their weird names is because their name is the location that each person is planning to go to get away from the zombies.
The movie is just hilarious and always have quick jokes throughout that do not drag on like most comedies do in their movies. And with Eisenburg narrating the story, it is even funnier. Woody Harleson is the funniest of them all. Even with the scenes without him, the film is funny but when Harleson is in a scene, it just becomes better. And Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin playing the two girls were also really good.
What this movie did that really made me proud of this movie was that they actually created a zombie film. With many movies out there that poke fun at things, they often forget the things they are poking at. In this movie, they wrote a movie about zombies and then added comedy to it, so now you can appreciate it not just as a comedy, but also as a zombie movie as well.
This movie is definitely not for the weak of heart because like most zombie movies, it does have it's share of blood, gore, and graphic images, all of which I thought were cool, well-caught on camera, and realistic. And I also really liked how they supplemented the zombie slaughtering with metal music. It really fit in well.
And if you have seen Shaun of the Dead, do not think that you will watch it again when watching this movie because like I said before, they are different. Zombieland had awesome action sequences while Shaun of the Dead stuck to a more slower pace. Plus, Shaun of the Dead's setting was before the zombie apocalypse, while Zombieland took place during the zombie apocalypse. And for Zombieland, the whole movie was dedicated to zombies while Shaun of the Dead also stuck in some romantic comedy sub-plots.
This movie is a well-crafted film that has everything you want in horror comedies. Bloody violence, laughter, and more bloody violence after that. There is nothing in this movie that I could find wrong in it and hopefully you will not either.
4.5/5
P.S: This movie probably contains one of the best cameos that I have seen this year and in a long time. It was funny and well-executed. You would never guess who it is. You just would never guess.