Let me preface this review by stating that I am a zombie movie nut. I will shit my pants in any other kind of horror/post apocalyptic/disease movie, but zombies? It’s like a tasty flesh pie to me, and I could eat it aaaaaall day. So this might be slightly biased. You won’t hold that against me, will you?

The rides are fun in Zombieland...

Zombieland is part comedy, part gory horror and part instructional video. The plot revolves around college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) making his way home to Columbus, Ohio during the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in the US, a place he now refers to as the titular Zombieland. He has stayed alive because of thirty-one rules that he strictly adheres to. These include: 1. Cardio (“The fatties were the first to go”), 2. Double Tap (“Don’t get stingy on bullets. Check they’re dead, shoot them twice”) and 18. Limber Up (you never know when you’ll have to run). He’s basically a socially inept, OCD nerd, but this hasn’t stopped him outwitting and outrunning plenty of zombies since the outbreak of mutated Mad Cow disease.

On his journey, he joins up with Tallahassee (a kick ass performance by Woody Harrelson) and is taken for a ride by sisters Wichita and Little Rock (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin), who are on their way to Pacific Playland funpark. See a pattern here? No one has a real name (well, with one notable exception), everyone goes by a place that means something to them. It is a surprisingly nice touch. Even Columbus’ dormroom neighbour is only ever refered to as 406.

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