Zombieland Opens in October. Possibly Funny.

Zombieland is a movie about guess what? No, not Che. It's about zombies and it is trying to find a hold in that same market that made Shaun of the Dead so big, and this time it's Woody Harrelson doing all the zombie killingand not Simon Pegg and there ARE some funny parts in the trailer, so maybe this one will be much better than Toyko Zombie. Do I seem jaded? I'm totally jaded. The last three zom-coms I've seen have been thoroughly disappointing and if I wanted to watch zombies falling down and being hysterically uncoordinated I'd just watch the Three Stooges and pretend they were zombies. Good zombie comedy comes from playing with convention and capitalizing on the inherent horror of the walking dead rising to feast of the flesh of the living. Not from slipping on banana peels.

As an interesting cast addition, Zombieland stars Abigail Breslin who was the cute girl in Little Miss Sunshine and then went on to star in every other piece of crap kid's movie ever since then. It's good to see her branching out into zombies. Zombies is always the right career move for child stars I think. And if they get eaten for real? Well guess what? What has Macaulay Culkin done for ME lately? Nothing, that's what. If more child actors could get eaten we'd have far fewer Danny Bonaduces running around. The world would be a better place is my point. And also any problem solved with zombies is awesome. That's a scientific fact. You can look it up if you want.

Bill Murray is listed in the credits, but I didn't see him in the trailer, so maybe he is shy all the sudden after doing so many Wes Anderson movies and making me sad because I miss What About Bob Bill Murray and Meatballs Bill Murray and Ghostbusters Bill Murray way more than I miss my grandma who died when I was 10 and cared for me like my own mother. I'm just kidding. She died when I was 5 and hated children...but still, I miss Caddyshack Bill Murray way more than her. I hope in Zombieland he gets to do something funny. Not letting Bill Murray do something funny in a movie is like hiring the world champion kickboxer to come to your kid's birthday party and NOT letting him punch out your wife.

Also in the movie is Emma Stone, who played Jules in Superbad and was mostly funny in the scenes that they cut and when she yelled "What the FUCK!" after getting headbutted. I'm not usually a huge proponent of headbutting humor, but when a fat guy does it to a pretty girl and then she swears? It's pretty much like winning the Kentucky Derby. For the record, I have no idea if that's what it is like...I couldn't think of a good analogy. How the hell should I know what that's like? Are you calling me a thoroughbred racehorse. How dare you, sir or madam? How. Dare. You.

Any way. Here's the trailer for Zombieland. I hope it doesn't disappoint me so that I have to tell it that if it doesn't start applying itself it's going to end up pumping gas for a living. Actually, that WOULD be gainful employment and for some of us that is a step in the right direction. I should probably mention that the trailer has the best use of "Everybody Wants Some" since Better Off Dead. So that's one for the "pro-" column.

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