Zombieland

It's a love story, it's a zombie film, it's hilarious.

The Gist Of The Movie:
Jesse Eisenberg is a survivor of the zombie apocolypse. Nearly everyone is undead, but he has survived by following a long list of rules. He is trying to make it back to Columbus, Ohio to see if his parents have also survived, even though he was never that close to them. On the way he meets up with a wildman who calls himself Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who are heading to an amusement park they loved from childhood. The story follows their shenanigans in Zombieland (which is how they refer to America) and the familial relationship that blossoms between them.

What I Think:
This movie is funny from start to finish. It's really quirky and you can't help but love the characters. The opening sequence of Jesse Eisenberg explaining how the zombie apocolypse happened and his rules of survival is perfect in the sense that it is an introduction that doesn't just sound like something they had to do so I would understand the movie (as some introductions often do). His character of the kid whose phobias of everything are actually a critical tool of survival is entirely believable, because carelessness kills when there are zombies afoot. But I must say Woody Harrelson is my favorite character as the modern day cowboy that just enjoys kickin' zombie ass in his never ending quest to find a Twinkie (not to mention his fantastic array of original phrases). Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin are great too as sisters who trust each other, and no one else. As the movie progresses you learn who these people were before modern society collapsed and you watch as they band together in the aftermath of it all.

All in all this movie is Shaun of the Dead meets awkward teen romance and is entirely worth watching if you're in the mood for a comedy. I feel like I've never heard too many people talking about it and that's a shame.