Directed By: Jonathan Levine (50/50)
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, James Franco, Rob Corddry, John Malkovich
Rating: PG-13 for zombie violence and some language
Run Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Synopsis: R (Hoult) is a zombie who spends his days lumbering around an airport with other zombies, thinking internally about his existence as a zombie. While on a mission to feed one day, R and his pack attack a group of humans that includes the beautiful Julie (Palmer) and her boyfriend, Perry (Franco). When R eats Perry's brains he inherits Perry's memories and begins to fall in love with Julie...possibly turning human again in the process.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I finally got off of our lazy butts
(relatively speaking) and hit up the theatre to see this past weekend’s new
zombie romantic comedy…
Sarah:
Also known as a zom-rom-com…
A: …a very
apt description for the movie Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas
Hoult (X-Men: First Class), Teresa Palmer (Take Me Home Tonight) and Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine). This was a film that we didn’t see a
whole lot of promotion for though we had seen the trailer before a few times
and it looked silly, the kind of film that made us go, “Eh…maybe we’ll see it,
maybe we won’t.”
But it’s that time of year, the doldrums of winter when
studios generally dump the movies they have no hope for into theatres right
before the Oscars (a term that Grantland has dubbed “Dumpuary,” which I love)
so we went to the theatre because we’ve been slacking on the blog and didn’t
really have high hopes for this movie. But now that we’ve seen Warm
Bodies, Sarah, what did you think of it?
