Warm Bodies starts off with a seeming hipster/pretty boy giving an explanation as to what the audience is seeing. He explains that we---the audience are seeing a post-apocalyptic world in which zombies are many and humans are few.
This seeming hipster/pretty boy is R (Nicholas Hoult)...a zombie who goes by R because all he can remember about his name is that it begins with an R. He spends many days looking and grunting at his best friend (Rob Corddry.) After a major attack on the zombies... R falls for a living girl named Julie (Teresa Palmer) whose father (John Malkovich)'s only goal is to rid the zombie population for good.
Writer-Director Jonathon Levine had previously done The Wackness and 50-50...two films that tackled the life of struggling people brilliantly. Now...Levine takes on a more fictional approach that works just as well as his previous two films. This is not only due to Levine but the actors. Hoult brings a certain charm to his part. He is not just a pretty boy or a hipster but a likable guy stuck in a zombie's body. Palmer is very sweet as the girl of R's dreams and Malkovich has some good scenes and makes his mark. Analeigh Tipton plays Julie's best friend Nora and is very funny. Also...the film has a very original look to it. We get both the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world look and the look of the world we live in today.
I do wish that the film had a bit more character development and focused on a subplot involving consumption of a vital human body part than it did. Still....Warm Bodies is an original, funny film that manages to mix in some nice action as well. I recommend it for just about anyone looking for a fun, surprisingly dare I say human time at the movies.
(3 and 1/2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated PG-13 for zombie violence and some language)
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