By Magne D’Mellow
Based on the novel of the same name, Warm Bodies is a paranormal/romantic comedy about a zombie who falls in love with a normal human, slowly curing him.
Directed by Jonathan Levine and staring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer, Warm Bodies is light hearted and doesn’t take itself too seriously. The concept itself is sounds quite cheesy as things of this nature usually are, especially as this is the 9001st zombie apocalypse film we’ve seen, however in this movie the apocalypse is more of a backdrop rather than the main focus of the film.
Based on the novel of the same name, Warm Bodies is a paranormal/romantic comedy about a zombie who falls in love with a normal human, slowly curing him.
Directed by Jonathan Levine and staring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer, Warm Bodies is light hearted and doesn’t take itself too seriously. The concept itself is sounds quite cheesy as things of this nature usually are, especially as this is the 9001st zombie apocalypse film we’ve seen, however in this movie the apocalypse is more of a backdrop rather than the main focus of the film.
I quite like the director’s choices and the way he played with various ideas of how the zombies acted, some of them behaving as if they were still alive in some way, one example being a zombie that still lazily mops the floor. Then you have the skeleton zombies, the ones that no longer look human. All of this is told through the thoughts of the zombified main character, an inner monologue that amused much of the audience.
The whole film is told mostly via a voice over, which was a different approach to a romantic comedy and made for interesting storytelling, even more so as he started to become more human and develop emotions that all of us have been through at one time or another. This did a good job of engaging the audience on an personal level and at some points I even felt sorry for him; something difficult to achieve with the plethora of endless zombie-killing games and movies.
The acting was decent enough for me; nothing amazing but certainly not the worst, though I felt like some of the human characters were a bit stereotypical, for example; the army dad only cared for saving humans and killing zombies.
The whole film is told mostly via a voice over, which was a different approach to a romantic comedy and made for interesting storytelling, even more so as he started to become more human and develop emotions that all of us have been through at one time or another. This did a good job of engaging the audience on an personal level and at some points I even felt sorry for him; something difficult to achieve with the plethora of endless zombie-killing games and movies.
The acting was decent enough for me; nothing amazing but certainly not the worst, though I felt like some of the human characters were a bit stereotypical, for example; the army dad only cared for saving humans and killing zombies.
My only problem with this film is that many story developments don’t seem to make a lot of sense, though to be honest you wouldn’t go to see this if you are expecting anything to make logical sense; undead zombies being cured and brought back to life by the power of love isn’t something that people should try to wrap their heads around after all.
I wouldn’t say this is going to be a movie that’ll be remembering for years to come but more something that you glance across and remember it fondly for its good story telling and dark yet very funny humour.
I wouldn’t say this is going to be a movie that’ll be remembering for years to come but more something that you glance across and remember it fondly for its good story telling and dark yet very funny humour.
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