(Movie Review) Warm Bodies (2013)

Warm Bodies might be the most imaginative and appealing Zombie movie ever made 

  

Imagination is something that is desperately missing in this world. People are fine, for the most part, with the status quo. People do what those before them did, who did what those before them did and so on. That is why people in the fashion world claim that clothing runs through cycles and that everything that is out of style tomorrow will be back in style one day (which is why I kept my Superman underoos from my childhood). 

This repetitive cycle is most apparent, to me, in movies. You can take a few classic movies and basically see how most modern films are derived from them.  Not so with Warm Bodies. While George Romero will be created with popularizing Zombie films in the late 60s, movies like Warm Bodies take the backdrop of a Zombie Apocalypse and turn it on its ear by making it a love story/comedy.  Making something new from an old Hollywood trope produces a very fresh and interesting movie.

Storyline: R (Hoult) is a product of the Zombie Apocalypse. He has little brain function and lacks most basic motor skills. The only source of food that is appealing to a Zombie is human flesh. They can’t help it. People are just a bunch of walking Happy Meals to them. When R’s pack attacks a group of survivors, R falls in love with Julie (Palmer) at first sight. When R thinks that Julie might be at risk of dying from the attack of the other Zombies he risks his non-life to save and protect her. As his emotions for her grows stronger he begins to heal himself from his Zombie plague. But a secret that R holds, and the determination of Julie’s father to wipe the Zombies from the face of the Earth, might be enough to keep R and Julie from every being together.

Worth the Admission? Very much so! I knew that I would love this movie from the first preview that I saw of it. The story is REALLY out there, but the message is such a great one. That no matter how bad the world gets and how bad it looks for humanity, love is what we should rely on to pull us back from the brink. You can’t ask for something with a better message than that.

Nicholas Hoult (R ) and Teresa Palmer (Julie) are fantastic together. And while this is not my favorite Rob Corddry role (M) he delivers some of the best one-liners in the movie. It’s just a really fun movie with a great message. Check it out.