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Bottom line: Zombieland is a lot of fun if you can just accept it for what it is - just a fun zombie movie.

The good about this movie is that it never takes itself too seriously like a Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later (both of which I loved and the former holds both spots 2 and 3 [for the remake] on my top-five list). It's almost always light-hearted (with a couple of sentimental moments) and often laugh-out-loud funny. It's got a great soundtrack. The movie opens with some old school Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls - and that helps set the mood. The ensemble cast was great. I haven't enjoyed Woody Harrelson this much in a long time. The last, and best IMHO, point is that it didn't try and make any statements. Nothing political or environmental. It just is what it is.

The bad. It drug in the beginning. I was really worried at moments. There was a lot of style - cool text overlays, high-def slow-mo camera tricks - and little substance. However, the story picked up quickly with the introduction of Harrelson's character. The other thing that bugged me, and I didn't think it would, is that this is another "running zombie" movie. I know a lot of people have issues with running zombies. I'm not one of them. I loved the Dawn of the Dead remake and think the fast zombies added a new level of suspense. 28 Days Later? I understand why they were running. This movie though, it just bugged me. I can't explain why.

If you can let certain things be certain things, then you will enjoy this movie better. I can't remember if we get a time frame on how long the zombiepocalypse has been going on, but I kept wondering why they still had electricity. It's something that's always bothered me about end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movies. Power plants don't run themselves. They require a lot of people to keep 'em running. Small thing, really, but if you get stuck on things like that, this movie will stick you.

Aside from these relatively minor bad points, it was good. I enjoyed it. I'd give it three-and-a-half shambling corpses out of five.

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I saw a preview for that and thought it looked like it might be fun, although I'm not dying to see it. I found Woody Harrelson incredibly irritating in the only thing I've seen him in before, but I'm willing to give him a chance. Might see it if I feel like that kind of movie.

So what's your top five list?

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1. Day of the Dead
2. Dawn of the Dead (original)
3. Dawn of the Dead (remake)
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Shaun of the Dead

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Ah, interesting. I haven't seen all of those yet, may have to do that.

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I have a top four:

28 Days Later
Brain Dead (aka Dead Alive)
Shaun of the Dead
Dead Set...this is probably my favourite. Zombies and the Big Brother house...who could ask for more?

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I got tickets for a pre-premiere showing this wednesday. I think it is gonna be fun.

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I saw it at the weekend and loved it. I agree with Happo, you just have to take it for what it is, a comedy. Of course most of it is implausible but all of it is fictitional so that's alright then. I loved the text overlays, what an original idea.

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I saw Zombieland a few weeks ago and I thought it was pretty good. A bit slow starting but otherwise a flick worth a bag of popcorn.


1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Return of the Living Dead
3. Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini's 1990 remake)
4. Dawn of the Dead (original)
5. Dawn of the Dead (remake)

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