I always wondered why Shaun of the Dead did not ignite a ZomCom wave. Maybe becaue it was British and quite off-beat, but the more reason for Hollywood to create a remake ? Zombieland is a quirky Zombie road movie featuring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg. I found that the novely of the unusual combination quickly wears off and the story as well as characters, despite being a zombie movie, is very generic and formulaic. If it was not for the Zombies, this could very well be a Zac Efron road movie, about a boy on his way to self-discovery, love and friendship, a bit cheesy and bland, especially given the opportunities. The film feels a bit episodic and it moves from chapter to chapter, dealing with one problem (or cameo) at a time and while this makes it easy to watch it makes it the harder to stay interested. Eisenberg is good, but his acting is a bit shaky when compared to his latest output. Woody Harrelson is good but I wonder whether the movie would have been more interesting with an actor whose role profile you would not expect to include a zombie-killing mad men. Woody pretty much plays himself and why it is cool to see him kicking ass, it would have been more interesting to see a charactor actor in the role.

Yes, yes, the Bill Murray cameo was fun, but common people, you cannot love the movie based on that ? Go watch some Bill Murray movies instead if you like him so much instead of rating this one high for briefly including him.

The direction is very ‘now’ and reminded me (despite being made earlier, so bear with me) of Scott Pilgrim, lots of Slow-motion shots ( a la Wes Anderson) with music playing over it and many (many!) in-film text appearing on-screen, catering for the computer and digital feedback crowd, it was not overused though and I quite enjoyed it.

All in all, a good effort and neat idea but behind the promise of an unique mixture of zombie and comedy lies a bland and generic American road movie.

Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin are terribly miscast as well.

The Soundtrack is really good though.