This film
had been recommended to me by a friend a while back. I have been saving it for
a rainy day for a while. You know what I mean, not an ACTUAL rainy day, but you
know, one of those days you actually need a few belly laughs in your day. One
of those days when everything goes wrong, you only achieve about a third of
what you set out to do that day, and in the end, end up going “Oh s*d it”,
abandoning everything, turning on a comedy and gorging yourself on chocolate. I
had one of those recently. This film did wonders for me. And it goes especially
well with triple chocolate chip cookies. Just fyi…
The initial premise of the film does not sound
promising at all, this I grant you. Ok, sometime in the not too late 21st
century, a mysterious virus has wiped out most of the United States and
possibly the world – there is no way of knowing at this point. This virus
however, does not kill. It transforms you into a zombie. And there is no cure.
So there you are you see. Only a handful of resourceful souls have managed to
survive and one of them is our narrator, otherwise known as Columbus. This is
not his name you understand, but his destination, he doesn’t like exchanging
names, it makes you too familiar, and this is not good in a thing if one is in
constant danger of being eaten alive. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is, ironically
not the kind of person who would survive in what used to be the real world. A
virtual recluse with not many friends and far too many phobias and hang ups, he
has survived by rigidly sticking to a set of 30 something rules he has made for
himself. He was in university when the outbreak took hold for good, so he
reckons that he might as well try and make his way back home (to Columbus) to
see if his family has survived. Now, crossing a zombie-infested United States
is not a straight-forward task as you might imagine. This is why you might
think it’s a good thing that our friend Columbus runs into a couple of actual
people on the way. But when one of them is a self-styled and quite possibly
completely insane self-styled Zombie hunter Tennessee (Woody Harrelsson) and
the other two sisters with a propensity for scamming our dastardly duo out of
everything they own and making off with it… Well, let’s just say things get
interesting.
Ok. Don’t
worry about the gore and blood, it’s not that kind of comedy. It’s a
combination of genres, the way most things actually are these days, but mainly
it’s a romantic-comedy / road - trip movie with the comedy level really, REALLY
amped up. I mean, in my already depressed state at that moment, a mere 20
minutes in, I had laughed out loud 4 – 5 times. That’s how good it is. I love
Jesse Eisenberg who is impossibly aggravating and endearing at the same time as
Columbus with all his worries and hang-ups (note the name, Columbus by the way.
He is after all, our hero who will go on a voyage of discovery and growth, so
what better name? They don’t choose these names randomly ya know, some thought
DOES go into it!). As for Woody Harrelsson, oh my GOD. I mean, Columbus is of
course our hero and main man, Tennessee is our main comic situation provider
and sidekick, but man oh man… He deserves a film all to himself. My respect for
Mr Harrelsson grows with every single film I see him in, I mean, he has acted
in an absolute plethora of different, almost random parts and films but has pulled
off every single one to such a high standard… This definitely comes as one of
my top recommendations folks. Chocolate and bad days are optional but hey.
Watch it. Seriously.
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