Marval Movie

Zombies are all the rage these days, not even since that days of George A. Romero have the undead been so popular, I suppose Zombies have never really gone out of fashion but still there popularity now is bigger than ever with movies, comic books, video games and the hit HBO show The Walking Dead. There just seems to be something about this generation and a horde of undead flesh eaters (God that's depressing).

Warm Bodies is the story of a Zombie apocalypse world where its exactly what you'd expect, destroyed cities, Zombies roaming once filled places like shopping Malls and Airports. Then we meet our main character a Zombie who's name he cant remember but he's  pretty sure that it began with a R (so that's what we'll call him). He just wanders around like all the other Zombies but he also has a few deeper thoughts running through inside his head, like wheres he going with his life?

Later we meet Julie (Teresa Palmer) the daughter of the leader of the last human survivors, here dad is played by John Malkovich (yeah!). Shes a good Fe-Male character who's strong and fun. Eventually Julie and R encounter each-other, some Zombies get their heads blown off and some humans get eaten, but the sight of Julie looking attractive with a shotgun in hand, gets R's blood pumping (literally). I have to wonder, we learn that the Zombie apocalypse has been going on for eight years, so no young Zombie has ever encountered a pretty human?

The movie is based on the book by Isaac Marion of the same name. The idea alone of a romance between a living human and a zombie is pretty original and refreshing but can it be pulled off right was the question? Yes, this is a fun movie and it serves well to be played out by two great talents. There is also even more unique touches added to the material, apparently when Zombies eat a brain they get that persons memories and being that Zombies cant sleep or dream they really want to eat some brains.

I dont usually say things like this but Nicholas Holt is a STAR! He is a great talent that has a lot to offer and I'm sure will go on to do great other things. He is so likeable and capable with the material that he's given, but also generous, giving the other actors room to shine. After seeing him in About A Boy and how much talent he already had at that young age and then seeing him years later in the TV show Skins with his new mature material and now here with great comedy, he will go on the become a legend.

The movie premiss is born from the same of the Twilight movies/books and if you have just read that and decided not to watch the movie then just relax because Warm Bodies isn't like that. The basic formula of human getting into a romance with that of a supernatural being is a good one, the difference is Twilight is weak while Warm Bodies is funny and engaging.

This is one of those movie with a soundtrack, and if you are one of those people that loves the best of the eighties then you'll enjoy listening to this. The tracks selected are solid and funny, but even though I said best of the eighties there are still some older and some newer songs to browden the taste range. Its just a solid soundtrack and theres even one momnet where they even get a rather good joke out of it.

If there has ever been a need for a Zombie romance (probably not) or if that idea alone interests you then this movie will work. There are plenty of wasted potential in movies but Jonathan Levine does a good job of Directing and adapting the material from the book. Not that the genre needed it but Warm Bodies makes the rotting bodies of Zombies even more refreshing.

Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 4