Warm Bodies - Written Review

Zombies.  They're the focus of comics, books, TV shows, video games, and even movies.  The first movie that was technically a zombie film was called White Zombie from 1932.  But zombies as they've been popularized as decrepit reanimated brain-craving ravenous corpses until George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead from 1968.  Since then there have been hundreds of zombie movies.  Zombies became really huge in media and pop culture in the last 10 years, when the majority of the zombie movies were made.  The problem with anything that there are hundreds of is they all kind of blend together...unless you do something that seriously sets yourself away from the crowd.  So they made a zombie love story.  I guess...?  Warm Bodies.

All we want to do is eat your brains.

Now let me be the first to say I was confused all the way through this movie.  I even contemplated just walking out (like a zombie) a couple times just because it's so far off base from any kind of zombie lore.  The main character, a zombie named R played by Nicholas Hoult.  Right off the bat my first question was, WTF?!  Because this guy is thinking.  Why is he thinking?  He's a zombie!  Zombies don't think, they're mindless!  But I figured I was watching a comedy like Zombieland, so I didn't let it bother me...until it became obvious that it wasn't a comedy.  Yeah there were some fun lines or lines that were trying to be funny, but it wasn't a funny movie.  It wasn't a comedy.  So if it's not a comedy and he's supposed to be a real zombie then how does he have an internal monologue?  How is he able to speak words out loud?  Why is he breathing?  Why does he collect things?  Why does he have an "apartment" in an old airliner?  And above all, why is he so dectrous with his hands??  He operates a record player by hand.  That requires finesse by someone who already knows what they're doing.  How the hell is this zombie doing it?  And how is he able to appreciate music?  He's a zombie!!

Zombie movie in a zombie movie.

I don't know if the writer even knew what a zombie was when he was writing this.  But aside from a severe lack of understanding of the source material and getting past the fact that some how this zombie is thinking and has an internal monologue and has feelings and knows how to speak this movie was very mediocre.  The acting, except from Nicholas, was eh.  The directing was eh.  The story was eh.  It seriously isn't something new, other than the zombie aspect.  But even that's not new.  Necrophilia anyone?  You could find plenty of stories about that if you looked online.  This love story is actually kind of creepy when you take that into account.  The girl is crushing on a dead guy.  How is that supposed to work??

That's not how you do Thriller.

In conclusion, this movie was confusing and stupid.  This movie was so unfocused.  The first 10 mins were a comedy, then it goes to troubled daughter fighting for the human race, then we basically watch 4 or 5 music videos (what else do you call it when you listen to entire songs set to video), then drama with the zombie family, then awkward teen drama show, then battle action scene where good guys win.  I felt like I was watching something that was written by a second grader.  Was it a good zombie movie?  NO!  Was it a good romance?  Mediocre at best.  Was it a good movie?  No.  In the end I have no idea what they were going for with this movie.  It pisses me off that they marketed it as a comedy when it's not.  Bait and switches are retarded.

Film Crazy Adam does not recommend this movie.