For rambunctious laughs, you can hardly beat Zombieland, a pedal-to-the-metal mix of ghoul gore, smartmouth humor and filmmaking savvy.
Overview
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Director and cast
- Ruben Fleischer Director
- Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus
- Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee
- Emma Stone as Wichita
- Abigail Breslin as Little Rock
- Amber Heard as 406
- Bill Murray as Bill Murray
- Derek Graf as Clown Zombie
- Justin Price as Sprint Zombie
- Elle Alexander as Zombie Meter Maid (uncredited)
- Melanie Booth as Hippie Girl (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Warts, entrails and all, I had a ball at Zombieland. It's 81 minutes of my kind of stupid.
Woody Harrelson has a rip-roaring time in this comic splatterfest as a redneck from hell who is out to kill zombies. It's the kind of genre acting that doesn't get much notice, but it's a gleeful rampage of a performance.
Wildly implausible, slightly scary and plot-lite though Zombieland is, it stands to add a few comic bons mots to popular parlance.
Scattershot but sharp, this postapocalyptic road comedy gives Shaun of the Dead a run for its money.
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