Breslin, in particular, feels very natural and believable in the role – I honestly never once during the movie looked at her and thought “Hey, there’s Little Miss Sunshine,” she really made this role her own and I think audiences appreciated that. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin play Wichita and Little Rock, sisters who have issues trusting everyone on the planet but each other. Jesse Eisenberg as the twitchy, better-safe-than-sorry Columbus keeps a written list of the rules that have kept him alive through the zombie apocalypse, and the film does a great job of “presenting” these rules throughout the entire movie.

The casting is pretty much spot-on – all four of the main characters seem totally believable and wholly engulfed into their roles. The inevitable comparisons to ‘Shaun of the Dead’ exist to those who don’t really know any better believe me when I say that these are two VERY different films, they just happen to be the two most prominent examples of Zombie Comedies – the only people who will compare the two are people who are too unimaginative to think of anything else to say. I’ll never forget my first watch-through of ‘Zombieland.’ It was at the relative dawn of my professional writing career, and I was one of the lucky few to see ‘Zombieland’ at a sneak preview screening, replete with free swag: for weeks after, I wore my ‘Zombieland’ t-shirt and hat with pride, and the ‘Zombieland’ Hand Sanitizer and Twinkies were especially humorous after everyone had seen the movie.Īs for the film itself, I feel the same way today as I did back then: ‘Zombieland’ does a surprisingly good job of mixing action, horror, comedy, and even a dash of romance for good measure. So at that point, then, could you think of the last time a zombie movie received a major national marketing campaign and a coast-to-coast wide theatrical release? 2008’s ‘Quarantine’ had a few commercials on TV here and there, but 2004’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ is the next-most “recent” movie that springs into my head in terms of big-time national exposure, and that was half a decade prior! If so, then you’re likely asking yourselves the same question I am now: how in the heck has a whole decade gone by since the movie first came out?īack in late 2009, the hype surrounding ‘Zombieland’ has grown to fairly epic proportions yes, zombies were the “next big thing” for a while, but that was the early 2000s, and by the time we were just a few scant months from the calendar turning to 2010, the zombie hype train had left the station and wasn’t even necessarily on the tracks anymore. Many of you might be like me, and remember where and when you were when you heard about or even saw ‘Zombieland’ for the first time.

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