Shaun of the Dead
Not all comparisons with "Shaun of the Dead" were favorable: Joshua Rothkopf of "Time Out New York" characterized the "extra injection of pop-culture neuroticism" as "the one innovation" of the film, declaring that while "Zombieland" was funny, it was not particularly scary and stated that it "simply isn't as witty as "Shaun of the Dead", forever the yuks-meet-yucks standard".