Zombieland
Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
Seriously, I would have paid for this --- fortunately, faux-Lady
Yeah, it’s important that I point out the advance-ness of this screening (as all geeks know, bragging rights are like necklaces of teeth inside the enchanted walls of comic shops and horror conventions), because when Zombieland officially drops on October 2nd, you’ll wish you were with me on the ground floor of cult status.
Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg play a pair of polar opposites forced to fend for themselves in the midst of World War Z. Eisenberg plays narrator during their cross country trip, citing his rules of survival to the delight of the audience and the irritation of Harrelson. Their path brings a love sick Eisenberg into the raccoon-eyed sites of Emma Stone and her sister (Abigail Breslin). Stone is more concerned with surviving, while Eisenberg is looking for love after his last unrequited relationship ended in Zombification.
Eisenberg comes off as a recession-friendly Michael Cera. The two both share the same method of acting (rambling and confusion), but Cera’s shtick would serve as more of a distraction, while Eisenberg carries the film with an aggressive clumsiness that eludes the former.
Zombieland is smart enough to recognize that it is walking in the dragging footsteps of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s British Rom(antic)-Zom(bie)-Com(edy) Shaun of The Dead. They answer Shaun, quite cleverly, by being as d!ck-swingingly American as possible. Harrelson serves as the largest conduit to that, blasting Zombies with hunting rifles, commandeering gas-guzzling SUVs, and traveling from
Do the 28 Days Later-dash and go see this!
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