Review – Zombieland

When this movie wasn’t busy trying self-consciously to be cute, it actually managed to be entertaining. In the wake of the usual Zombie Apocalypse, a neurotic nerd (Jesse Eisenberg) manages to survive by observing an obsessive set of rules. He ends up teamed up with a redneck (Woody Harrelson) and a pair of con artists (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) on a cross-country trek in hope of greener – or at least less zombie-filled – pastures in California. Logic errors abound, but I suppose the “hey, it’s a goofy comedy” defense applies. It does a reasonable job of being what it is, which in some ways is a shame because if it had taken itself a little more seriously it might have been a better movie. Mildly amusing