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A cowardly shut-in named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is forced to join up with a seasoned zombie slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. As Tallahassee set... read more read more...s out on a mission to find the last Twinkie on Earth, the duo meets up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), two young girls who have resorted to some rather unorthodox methods to survive amidst the chaos. Reluctant partners in the battle against the undead, all four soon begin to wonder if it might be better to simply take their chances alone. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: February 2, 2010

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  • February 10, 2010
    I havent laughed like this in a while. I just had a good time w this movie!! It was just a lot of fun!! what a move experience should be.
  • March 9, 2012
    This movie completely surprised me. A lot of fun.
  • December 27, 2011
    Hilarious and violent...sounds silly, but Zombieland isn't. It's the perfect combination of both; it's a film well-done. Perfect cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and of course the always humorous Bill Murray. Well written. Awesome action and ... read moreviolence. Great humor. A seriously a great film! One of the best comedies of 2009.
  • December 12, 2011
    An entertaining movie. I, like everyone else, enjoyed the Bill Murray stuff the best. Woody Harrelson is also hilarious, but the whole showing the rules every other scene was kind of annoying. And also, I don't know much about the zombie movie rules, but I'm smart enough to know ... read morethat if you turn on all the lights at an amusement park, it's probably going to attract something.
  • December 11, 2011
    This movie has many things I love: it's a zombie movie, it's a road movie, it's a horror comedy, it's gory, but at the same time, it has some substance, but it's not overbearing. Mostly this movie is just really fun and hugely entertaining, which is probably the most important fa... read morector. The script is decent, and contains the right amount of wit and quirk without seeming derivative. There's sone real cleverness with the title sequence and the presentation of Columbus' "rules"-they are flashy, yet remain the punction, not the sentence. The performances are great. Each player is perfect for their respective roles. Jesse Eisenberg rivals only Michael Cera for the king of deadpan geeky quirk. It isn't for me as good as Romero's stuff or Shaun of the Dead, but it takes the best from each camp, and makes it into its own little thing. The wonderful not quite a surprise cameo around the middle definitely serves as the cherry on top of a beautiful mound of ice cream, but the soundtrack kicks much ass as well- especially the usage of one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands during the opening credits sequence.

    Obviously I recommend this movie, so do yourself a favor, and check it out. There are far worse ways to spend a night at home.
  • November 15, 2011
    A repressed computer geek teams up with a gun toting redneck and a pair of con artists to escape the horde of zombies that now populate the country. Zombieland feels all the world like one of those American remakes of a successful British project, namely Shaun Of The Dead. A team... read more of US marketing "experts" took the idea and threw out any references to British indie music and replaced it with Willie Nelson and screaming metal guitar solos, threw out the slackers and replaced them with the ubiquitous comedy trailer trash and neurotic nerd stereotypes and threw out the old school shambling zombies and replaced them with gore riddled, hyperactive speed freaks that have unfortunately come to replace them. The result is My Name Is Earl with the undead and it's a bit like Zack Snyder's make over of Dawn Of The Dead with jokes. It's certainly very well made and definitely has some great moments, but I'm getting a little tired of the Eisenberg nerd (who is EXACTLY the same in everything he does) and it's so very predictable from beginning to end. Not a bad little diversion, but I felt the same way about the film as a whole as I did about the infamous Bill Murray cameo...is that REALLY what everyone's been going on about all this time?
  • October 29, 2011
    The thing I like about Zombieland is how it manages to bulid up a comedy side to it's plotline while managing to maintain the fact that it is intentionally a horror film. Not to be confused with Shaun of the Dead which is a deliberate spoof of the genre Zombieland is in. Within Z... read moreombieland's genre it is one of the best.
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    October 23, 2011
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    Hilarious, but Bill Murray really steals the show.
  • October 21, 2011
    I have to say I was a bit disappointed. Shaun of the Dead is a favourite of mine so I never expected it to surpass it but I had hoped that it would at least compete. There was such huge potential after all, as funny and original as the whole Bill Murry thing was, it just didn't w... read moreork in my opinion and the film never really knew what it wanted to be. I thought the use of typography was clever but it's not original, the pace was too jerky, the trashing of the shop was stupid and pointless and angered me slightly and the acting/casting could have been better. I had no problem with Woody Harrelson but Jesse Eisenberg isn't funny (Michael Cera would have been a better choice in my opinion), Emma Stone acts like a stone and Abigail Breslin seems to have grown out of her darling stage and them some. By the end of the film I couldn't care less about the characters and it looked less like a comedy/horror/comedy-horror and more like a computer game. Watch Shaun of the Dead and/or play Dead Rising on the PS2/Wii/Xbox instead.
  • October 6, 2011
    Not really wanting to see this film, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. It was funny and different. LOVED IT!

Critic Reviews


Ruth McCann
December 16, 2009
Ruth McCann, Washington Post

Wildly implausible, slightly scary and plot-lite though Zombieland is, it stands to add a few comic bons mots to popular parlance. Full Review

Cliff Doerksen
December 16, 2009
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader

Scattershot but sharp, this postapocalyptic road comedy gives Shaun of the Dead a run for its money. Full Review

James Berardinelli
October 7, 2009
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

By the time Zombieland reached its climax, I actually cared about who lived and died, and that reaction honestly took me by surprise. Full Review

Christopher Orr
October 5, 2009
Christopher Orr, New Republic

[E]verything Jennifer's Body was not--fast, funny, and fully aware of the obligations and opportunities inherent in the genre. Full Review

A.O. Scott
October 5, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies

This movie is fundamentally empty. Full Review

Michael Ordoņa
October 2, 2009
Michael Ordoņa, Los Angeles Times

There are even a few poignant moments in the movie, but they don't get in the way of the funny, violent, zombie-killing good time. Full Review

Rick Groen
October 2, 2009
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

At a brisk 80 minutes, the flick isn't a minute too short. Better yet, for those with a sweet fang for confections, it's far more charming than chilling and way more funny than frightening. Full Review

Tom Long
October 2, 2009
Tom Long, Detroit News

It's a black-blood-spitting mugging of a movie, but it's also relentlessly funny and innovative, the sort of film that makes you writhe and laugh at the same time. Full Review

Lisa Kennedy
October 2, 2009
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

We won't ruin it. Let's just say that if laughter distinguishes humans from zombies, then you'll know just how human you are after the quartet's visit to a mansion in Los Angeles. Full Review

Mary F. Pols
October 2, 2009
Mary F. Pols, MSN Movies

...if you weren't foolish enough to have, say, a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs in advance of seeing it, you... will have a lot of fun. Full Review

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    • Columbus: Remember mad cow disease? Well mad cow became mad person became mad zombie.
    • Tallahassee: Where's the...fucking... TWINKIES?!
    • Tallahassee: There's a box of Twinkies in that grocery store,not just any box of Twinkies the last box of Twinkies that anyone will enjoy in the whole universe.
    • Tallahassee: I've never been good at goodbyes so... That'll do pig.
    • Tallahassee: You're a peppy little spit-fuck, aren't you?
    • Tallahassee: Time to nut up or shut up.

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