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(1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1   3/4 "After a year of enduring bummer after bummer, I'm relieved that Zombieland gives those with a hunger for horror a reason to bolt to their nearest multiplex."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "Director Ruben Fleischer eventually ignores the need to tie things up neatly in favor of what we came to Zombieland for, creative ways to kill zombies."   Examiner.com   Adam Lippe 4/5 "A funride through zombified American society, full of genuinely hilarious lines and situations."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel "Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson do a great job playing off each other in 'Zombieland,' one of the funniest zombie movies I've ever seen."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker A "Director Ruben Fleischer and his team have crafted one of the most enjoyable black comedies of the year."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4.5/5 "a hilarious homage to the flesh-eating fiend"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 8/10 "While not a true zom-com classic like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland is just as much breezy, brainless fun as one of the rollercoasters that mark its horizon."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens B+ "It's a horror-comedy done proper, taking a far more endearing, freewheeling stance when it comes to busting open the undead, revealing there's still some life left in the densely populated zombie genre."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 7/10 "While short on fresh ideas, the film works thanks to some strong performances and a script that provides just enough depth to render its characters more than just a collection of eccentricities."   DVDTown.com   Christopher Long C- "Watching a 12-year-old Abigail Breslin killing zombies with semi-automatic weapons doesn't do much for me, but I'm sure there are many audiences that will remark, "cool." Gratuitous violence never seemed so cheap."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Zombieland does well enough in its early minutes, then picks up a little unexpected speed when Columbus meets another "noncannibal survivor" (played by a perfect Woody Harrelson)."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "Over-the-top and gleefully irreverent..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "Benefits greatly from the appealing goofy performances by Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Playing like a useful survival guide to an undead outbreak, a guts-filled horror film that turns George Romero on his head, and a knowing, occasionally referential screwball comedy, Zombieland is a zippy blast."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B+ "It deserves to become a midnight-movie cult classic. If it doesn't, that means the zombies win."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "Despite films like Transformers and G.I. Joe cleaning up at the box office, Zombieland, even with its earned R-rating, is the one true film this year that reminds us of what its like to be a kid at the movies."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3.5/4 "No matter what genre you peg "Zombieland" in, the fact is that it's one damn great piece of film making and likely one of my favorite films of 2009..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Simultaneously frenetic and boring gore-farce shambles"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B "Nothing more than a Troma schlockfest with a bigger budget, but it boasts an amusing script, a quick tempo and...a cast that milks the madness for all it's worth."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 63/100 "Ultimately, Zombieland works best as pure, breezy entertainment with a pinch of depth."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz 3/4 "By the time Zombieland reached its climax, I actually cared about who lived and died, and that reaction honestly took me by surprise."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "manages to successfully rework the familiar in a way that pokes fun at its living-dead predecessors while also recognizing the underlying sense of dread that has allowed the genre to thrive for nearly four decades"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Recommended zom com. You'll never look at cardiovascular workouts in the same way again!"   fantastiqueZINE   James O'Ehley 4/5 "Zombieland could have been a very slack unscary horror film or a very gory unfunny comedy, but instead it snaps, bites and snarls its way across the screen with perverse pleasures and real brains under its bloody smile."   Redbox   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/4 "The undead live on in this broad, crowd-pleasing - and gleefully gory - comedy about the inevitable "zombie apocalypse"."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito A- "Zombies can be a ton of fun as long as they don't chomp too many human characters and remain primarily bloody fodder for practical jokes and target practice"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 3.5/4.0 "The best zombie exploitation film since Shaun of the Dead. With Twinkies."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson B "[The filmmakers] serve up one of the year's most entertaining films...by concocting a few riffs to keep playing on and coming up with the inspired casting of Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson as a perfectly mismatched buddy team."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Surprisingly cute for a movie awash in blood, entrails and icky zombie drool, admirably brisk ... and occasionally scary, especially if zombies creep the bejesus out of you."   Horror Hacker   Maitland McDonagh 2.5/4 "Has a few flashes of genre-bending inspiration ... but the rest is a little too low-key and obvious to really set this zombie comedy apart."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[O]utrageously violent and outrageously funny... plays up what could be its most shocking moment with exactly the right blend of impudence and absurdity and tragi-comedy..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/5 "Zombieland doesn't take itself even remotely seriously, which makes it a nice counterpoint to all the nihilistic zombie flicks shambling around out there."   The Horror Geek   Mike Bracken 3.5/4 "Zombieland makes undead cinema fresh again. This movie is just ridiculously, insanely, enormously entertaining."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "Zombie films provide many opportunities for comic juxtaposition of dire circumstances with trivial detail and the deconstruction of our assumptions."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "Unlike its spiritual predecessor Shaun of the Dead, Fleischer's film doesn't really get either zombie movies or human relationships."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 " It earns itself a place on the same shelf as such classics as "Evil Dead 2" and, yes, "Shaun of the Dead.""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "A sharply clever script and relentlessly kinetic structure keep us thoroughly entertained all the way through this corny zombie action-comedy. Although there's also the gnawing realisation that there's absolutely no subtext at all."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "It's a fundamentally lazy and witless film."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "Parts of it rank among the funniest moments of the year, but they never last."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B+ "It doesn't break any new ground or have any new ideas. It is just a perfectly cast, well-written, well-directed, well-acted film that is bloody funny."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "Laugh-out-loud is a good thing in a comedy and this one has plenty."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4.5/5 "Almost guaranteed to please the horror fans and comedy kooks in equal measure, Zombieland is a pitch-perfect example of how tasty the "horror/comedy" combo can be."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/4 "Marrying comedy to horror isn't original, but "Zombieland" discovers inventive ways to entertain by placing its emphasis on laughs over legitimate scares."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 6/10 "It's pointless to expect too much from a smarmy, silly, slapstick/teen romance horror satire and, if that's your attitude, you won't be disappointed."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 7/10 "Spends most of its time clicking... thanks to a particularly game cast that understands exactly what they're doing in a film like this."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 0.5/4 "...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1