Zombieland [Blu-ray]

Technical Details

• ISBN13: 0043396331570
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description

Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.

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If there’s been a zombie apocalypse and you’re road-tripping alone though the wasteland, you could do worse than run into Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a bourbon-swilling bad-boy butt-kicker with a really cool car. This is where the careful hero of Zombieland, a kid nicknamed Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), finds himself early in the film, and you can hardly blame him for hitching a ride with this swaggering Alpha Male. Still, they have their hands full not only with gibbering zombies but also with two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who will stop at nothing to reach a Disneyland-like amusement park in L.A. Although Zombieland gets off to a rocky start with Columbus’s overly-cute narration (he’s got a list of rules for surviving in the zombie world), it settles into an amusing comedy, regularly interrupted by bouts of blood-letting. The road-trip stuff is enough fun that when the movie does arrive at its version of Disneyland, the air goes out of it a little; sure, there’s a giant zombie blowout, with entrails flying, but it’s not quite the same. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the gags coming, although the movie is often funnier in its odd little asides (both Eisenberg and Harrelson are expert at this) than in its official jokes. Comic high point: an interlude at the home of a very famous movie star, who plays himself–and we’ll leave the spoiler unspoiled, in case anybody hasn’t heard about this funny extended cameo. –Robert Horton

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Customer Reviews

“You Had Me at Doubletap” 2010-06-07
By Tyler S. (Brentwood, CA United States)
Zombieland is a movie that is constantly juggled around my top 5 favorite film list. It did amazing things for its genre and justified zombie movies for the future. It even had a top secret cameo in spirit of being one of those great movies that actually suprise you and do not litter the spoilers in the trailer. Cloverfield was one such film that I support for its secrecy, and Zombieland follows in those brilliant footsteps. Hopefully more filmmakers will realize how rewarding it is for moviegoers to be genuinely suprised these days.

It’s hard to cram all the good praise about this film into a couple short paragraphs. It’s an amazing film, beside all of its hilarious jokes. The rules of Zombieland take a worthy stab at bad horror filmmakers and demand reality within these cliches. Things like “buckling your seatbelts” and “check the backseat” are not stupid jokes. These are brilliant criticisms of bad zombie stories. We laugh because it’s so true how lacking this genre is of some sort of reality. Zombieland created the reality with the rules.

The comedy exceeds beyond one’s expectations of a comedy. It is all due to excellent writing and acting. There’s barely any slapstick and an absence of cheap gross humor or fart jokes. Zombieland, although it may not seem so, is all about wit and performance humor. Woody Harrelson gives a shockingly great performance in this film, as does Jesse Eisenberg. The writers of this film are intelligent individuals with their hearts attached to their work. I know this because they built so much great comedy in the script, while also maintaining a general emotion level during the film. One part of the flick nearly made me cry, before they softened me right back up again with an appropriate joke for the moment. In the commentary they stated how proud they were that they could generate an emotional scene and then non-abrubtly ease the scene into a hilarious moment. I am proud as well, and have the utmost respect for the writer and director.

I have to stop going on, because I could rave about it all day. The editing, the stylized action…I love everything about Zombieland. I believe some people disagree with all the hype, because the film seems to be made for my generation. I don’t believe that middle-aged to older folks will enjoy this film. It is a film that appeals to geeks and nerds, and it is our general consensus that the film straight rocks. On my last note, it makes a great blu-ray. The picture is awesome and the extras are all watchable. Picking up this blu-ray will give you something in your collection that has more replay value than most films out there today.

“LOTS OF FUN” 2010-06-01
By Margaux Paschke (New York)
This movie starts with a young man listing his rules for survival in Zombieland (formerly the US), with #1 being Cardio. A brief example is provided for the viewer. Blood, guts and zombies fly as his rules are demonstrated. It is filled with dark humor and if that’s your cup of tea, this movie is a must see.

There are several highly improbably incidents (even working within the zombie plot) that culminate with a stupid standoff that makes no sense but you have to ignore any thoughts of logic and just sit back and enjoy the great dialogue and zombie mayhem that makes up “Zombieland.” Woody Harrelson was hilariously foul mouthed and certain phrases have stuck with me. Bill Murray’s appearance was perfect.

This movie asks the question, what would you miss most in a post apocalyptic world? The characters’ answers ranged from the amusing to poignant. Although this movie was not even close to perfect, it was lots of fun to watch and that makes it worth it in my book.

“Rule #1…Cardio” 2010-06-01
By Christopher A. Halliwill (Michigan, USA)
I was both skeptical and excited about Zombieland. The last zombie movie was Land of the Dead, a poor comparison to Zombieland in many ways. First of all, Zombieland is the first zombie movie that I’ve seen that is mainly a comedy and not so much a horror or survival movie. This becomes apparent during the opening of the film when the audience is exposed to the rules Columbus uses to survive in the United States of Zombieland.

While a comedy, the film first appears to be a horror flick. This was made evident to me when my in-laws refused to watch past the opening credits because of the gore involved when zombies chase the fatties and eat jugular veins. For those who don’t like gore, most of it is contained in the opening minutes of the film making for a sick opening – but stick with the film and you will be rewarded.

Finally, the film isn’t as cliched or full of stupid humor as I had worried. Almost every joke, gag and laughable moment is mostly original with a Family Guy-esque feel. (Some things, while hilarious, are completely random.) This helps to build the characters and propel the story well, though.

“what havn’t we seen yet?” 2010-06-01
By Joseph Pawloski (Chicago, Il.)
Maybe I nodded off but what the hell happened? They went somewhere – that was boring. They got kidnapped and that was boring. And they named people after stuff. And that was also boring. Some cute kills – not really.

Hey Mickey Rourke was great in the Wrestler – what made you think he’d be good in Iron Man 2 – oh wait this was Woody Harrelson who was cool in 2012 but sucked in Zombieland. Lighting was above average.

“Die Laughing: The Deadly Art of Horror Comedy” 2010-05-30
By W. Goring (Australia)
Watching Zombieland (2009) for the first time on DVD recently reminded me how tenuous the sub genre of horror comedy can be.
While it seems ever more difficult to craft a horror movie that is actually scary and a comedy that is actually funny, some filmmakers willingly set themselves the task of combining the two opposing genres. In the case of Zombieland, though successful in box office terms, it fails as a sub genre candidate. It’s really just a comedy with some outrageously gory FX, which are played as sight gags rather than shock moments. In my opinion, a successful horror comedy should be just that, the horror before the comedy. Some of the best horror films have often incorporated humour to ballast the terror. In many ways the throwing of the girl into the river by Frankenstein’s monster had a degree of humour to it (it’s sequel Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) may well be the first ever horror comedy) and films like Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist (1982) and Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981) are punctuated with humour threw out, the later more darkly so. The same could be said for any number of stalwarts of the horror genre. An American Werewolf In London (1981), Re-Animator (1985), Piranha (1978), Fright Night (1985), Gremlins (1984) and Critters (1986) are just some that use the push-pull of horror and comedy, some weighted to one side more than the other. However none of this films forgot to be scary, even the more innocuous (dare I say cute) examples like Gremlins and its inferior doppelganger Critters, both had death, blood and an overwhelmingly multiplying menace.
Perhaps Ghostbusters (1984) could be branded as the sub genre’s greatest success. I don’t think anyone would find Ghostbusters sitting in the horror section of their local video store (if you still go to one), it’s definitely a comedy, but in a couple of scenes, we are reminded of the `evil’ our heroes are up against. The scene in which Sigourney Weaver’s character is abducted, demon claws ripping from her couch, hell hound drooling at the ready, is definitely not played for laughs. There is a certain air of doom in Ghostbusters. While the characters deliver comic dialogue, we understand that the ghosts they are busting are nasty and that the events are spiralling towards some kind of apocalypse. The point being, the film is serious and scary when it needs to be, something Zombieland and many others didn’t quite grasp. *SPOILER* Ironically Bill Murray makes a cameo in Zombieland, and the characters actually watch Ghostbusters, as if saying, “Hey, we love that movie and this is our version of it”. Frankly, they have nothing in common and Bill Murray looks pained for the short scene he appears.

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